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J. Ryan Stradal wasn't seeing the strong, Midwestern women who raised him reflected well in contemporary fiction. So he decided to write those characters himself in The Lager Queen of Minnesota.

Reinaldo Marcus Green drew inspiration for his new movie Monsters and Men from the 2014 death of Eric Garner at the hands of an arresting officer. The film deals with a police killing and its aftermath.

Debbie Macomber's books don't get a lot of critical attention, but they've sold in the hundreds of millions. Her fans feel like they know and love the woman behind the words, so her publisher threw a party for them.

Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan was inspired by a real-life gorilla who lived in a mall in Tacoma, Wash. The author says humans have "a real obligation" to care responsibly for animals in captivity.

A 29-year-old woman confided her suicidal thoughts to an AI chatbot — not to her therapist, not to her parents, not to her best friend. What can AI learn from her death?

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Suleika Jaouad author of Between Two Kingdoms, her memoir about surviving cancer and learning how to live again.

The Trump White House agreed to a May 1 troop withdrawal. New Yorkerwriter Dexter Filkins says Biden must now decide whether to honor a deal that included the Taliban but not the Afghan government.

2025 had no shortage of major music news stories. Here's a rundown of some of the biggest of the year.

D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.

The white nationalist group held a conference in D.C. this weekend after Trump's unlikely victory for president. Video from the closing speech was rife with anti-Semitic comments and Nazi references.