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This second posthumous anthology of stories by Lucia Berlin is full of deeply felt stories about lives on the fringe, alternately comic and tragic, bound together by Berlin's love for her characters.

Opioid overdose deaths are more common in the eastern United States. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with journalist Beth Macy about this geographic disparity.

The Woolsey Fire is not the first in Malibu, nor is it the first time residents have planned to rebuild. Urban historian Mike Davis tells NPR's Audie Cornish that maybe, it's better to let it burn.

Tim Owens, lead producer of the Jazz Profiles series, looks back on the creation of the long-running documentary series, working with Wilson and some of her favorite episodes.

Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine joins NPR's Scott Simon to talk about sports.

The former general was known as a talented officer in the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But in Washington, he was dogged by a strange and contradictory relationship with Russia.

A new photography book captures the unseeable — the storied Mistral wind in Provence. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the photographer, Rachel Cobb.

The Winters is Lisa Gabriele's modern update of the 1938 novel Rebecca.

At the end of his four-day summit, Pope Francis called priests who had abused minors "instruments of Satan." But critics said his address did not offer a strong enough message against clergy abuse.

Newly restored footage of the historic 1969 moonshot widens the focus to include the hundreds of men and women who made the mission possible.