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NPR's Arun Rath speaks with correspondent Ari Shapiro about what to expect from Britain's new Conservative-majority government.

This new collection of speculative fiction stories imagines the lives of marginalized people in a variety of difficult future Americas. It's not an easy read, but it has depths of resilience and hope.

A Chinese poet-turned-detective investigates a slaying seemingly linked to industrial dumping. Don't Cry, Tai Lake is the politically charged seventh novel in Chinese expatriate Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen series.

Karen Olsson's novel follows a woman who returns home to care for her ailing father, but also in the hopes that she can get him to open up about how the Iran-Contra scandal ended his career.

Multiple investigations have been launched in the shooting death of Philando Castile. The Minnesota man was shot to death by a police officer. Castile's girlfriend broadcast the incident live on Facebook.

Curse words change over time — back in the ninth century you could say the "s" word and no one would be offended. But we always need a set of words that are off-limits, and in her new book, author Melissa Mohr explains how the words that shock us reveal a lot about society's values.

Issue 38, Cleveland's participatory budgeting charter amendment, was blocked by voters.

Mimi Pond's graphic memoir is a rose (or in this case aqua) tinted recollection of her time waitressing at a bohemian diner in Oakland in the 1970s. Reviewer Etelka Lehoczky says it's a sweet tribute.

Ancient mounds and burial sites across Ohio played important roles in Indigenous cultures. But rumors about burial sites being haunted abound — ideas that are both misinformed and harmful.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed the U.S. for this latest outbreak of Israel-Gaza violence as he tries to consolidate a growing anti-Western alliance of nations.