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Film critic Roger Ebert is famous for arguing about movies on TV with Gene Siskel. Now that cancer surgeries have left him without the ability to speak, Ebert has found a new voice online. Melissa Block visits him at his Chicago home to talk about his memoir, Life Itself.

Ex-Israeli soldier Ori Givati questions his military experience and the current rise in violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.

Novelist Delia Ephron says that losing her older sister Nora was like "losing an arm." But for all their collaboration and closeness, Delia writes about the complications of sisterhood in her new collection of autobiographical essays, Sister Mother Husband Dog (etc.).

There's a lot to look forward to in the upcoming year, including collections about religious faith, books that push the boundaries of what we can call poetry and some poems that are too hot for your average English class. Critic Craig Morgan Teicher walks us through the highlights of the year ahead.

Grammy is unveiling an award for "Best African Music Performance." Do the nominees fulfill the goal of "recognizing recordings that utilize unique local expressions from across the ... continent"?

What a new bridge over Baltimore's Patapsco River will look like is still very much a matter of speculation. But one design stands out.

NBC's hiring and firing of former GOP chief Ronna McDaniel may inspire more distrust from conservatives. Yet journalists said her role in trying to overturn the 2020 election made her unacceptable.

To celebrate Disability Pride Month, NPR readers tell their disability stories and share what they wish other people knew about living with a disability.

Political campaigns and pundits have long focused on swing states because they offer candidates an opportunity to sway voters off the fence and win coveted Electoral College votes.

The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost unseemly to be perceived as campaigning for the office, historians tell NPR.