Writers & Writing

NPR's Juana Summers speaks to journalist and author Ruthie Ackerman about her new book, The Mother Code: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Myths that Shape Us.

A federal judge Tuesday wrote that President Trump's executive order dismantling the IMLS "disregards the fundamental constitutional role of each of the branches of our federal government."

My Name Is Emilia Del Valle is the newest novel from the prodigious Chilean expat, now in her 80s. Plus, a personal history of the orange, a Josephine Baker history and having kids in the digital age.

Journalist and author Ted Genoways follows the violent, unpredictable and hugely profitable world of tequila through the story of its most successful maker, Jose Cuervo, in his book "Tequila Wars."

The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.

In her new hybrid memoir, Katie Goh unravels the multitudes citrus fruit contains, in lockstep with mythologies of colonialism, inheritance and identity.

"I Seek a Kind Person" shares stories of Viennese Jewish children who escaped the Holocaust thanks to adverts placed by their parents in the Manchester Guardian.

The book tells the story of the six-day siege following the storming of the Iranian embassy in London by six gunmen, which ended 45 years ago Monday.

A twin takes her influencer twin's identity in the satirical novel "Julie Chan is Dead." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with first-time author Liann Zhang.

NPR's Life Kit team offers tips for how to read deeply in an age when we are constantly distracted.