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Commonwealth is actually Patchett's seventh novel, but it draws heavily on her own family experience, and she compares it to the classic thinly-veiled autobiography often written by young authors.

Steve Inskeep talks to Justin Chang about the new movie: The Light Between Oceans — which is adapted from the novel by M.L. Stedman. Chang reviews movies for the Los Angeles Times.

Executive Editor Dean Baquet says "it would almost be illiterate" to call Donald Trump's longstanding claim that President Obama was born outside the U.S. anything but a lie.

Jerry Powers, who led the now-defunct Trump Magazine, talks about the magazine and working for Donald Trump.

Social science research examines how the mood of gamblers can change the way they think about risk. New Yorkers buy more lottery tickets when the weather is good and when their sports teams win games.

2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, and today more than ever, high schools are grappling with how to teach him, since ...

The men and women who will run the marathon in Rio earned their spots on the team at the Olympic Trials Marathon in L.A.

A mariachi musician, a newspaper editor, and a priest talk about how they have seen their lives upended by the coronavirus in the Rio Grande Valley.

Mayor Jim Kenney ordered the curfew amid unrest after the fatal police shooting of the 27-year-old Black man. The city's police commissioner says bodycam footage will be released "in the near future."

At StoryCorps, Mike Rudulph and Neil Rafferty remember falling in love, joining the Marine Corps and being deployed overseas.