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Mathias Énard's novel — newly translated from French — imagines what would have happened if Michelangelo had accepted an offer from the Ottoman ruler to design a bridge across the Golden Horn.

Cuban writer Wendy Guerra has lived under surveillance in her home country, and she works that experience into her intense new novel about a young poet in Havana whose success causes trouble.

Ann Beattie strikes out in her new novel about a disaffected young man who drifts through an unsatisfying series of jobs and relationships until his life is upended by a revelation from the past.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Susan Muaddi Darraj, creator of #tweetyourthobe, a hashtag for the public to share pictures of their thobe as a response to the swearing-in of Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

NPR's Scott Simon asks former FBI agent Clint Watts about The New York Times report that the FBI formally investigated President Trump for working against American interests.

The FBI and local law enforcement had warned of an "armed and dangerous" 18-year-old woman who had an "infatuation" with the mass school shooting. Area schools had closed for the day as a precaution.

The journalist, author and former NPR host speaks out about her painful quest for motherhood: "There's a lot of emotional blood on the floor."

When President Trump stepped onto North Korean territory on Sunday, national security adviser John Bolton was not there. That has raised a lot of questions about whether Bolton is being frozen out.

Craig Davidson's new novel follows a group of kids through a strange summer of hunting urban legends — it's a coming-of-age story that's also about loss, particularly what we lose when we grow up.

Beatriz Williams' new novel follows a woman searching for her missing husband in London during World War II, jumping back and forth in time to show all the people and events that led her there.