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Manguso made a name for herself in minutely observed memoirs. Now she uses fiction to write about what it is to feel poor, poorly nurtured, and inadequately loved in a class-conscious town.

Maine residents have been having a hard time finding the state's official drink on grocery store shelves: Moxie. It tastes a bit like root beer, but with a bite.

The men's giant slalom went ahead as scheduled — albeit with a few delays and stoppages. Low visibility caused 33 skiers to fail to finish their first qualifying run.

It was under control. And then it wasn't. In her new book Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History, VIdya Krishnan shows how "we repeat the same disease-spreading mistakes over and over."

The Biden administration is dealing with the Ukraine crisis abroad and a sluggish health bureaucracy at home.

In New Hampshire, a GOP plan to dramatically redraw the state's Congressional map has outraged Democrats. If approved, it could have a large effect on the midterm election.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders tells NPR's Rachel Martin that a potential war in Ukraine could have unforeseen consequences for Russia, for Ukraine and for the rest of the world.

Germany's chancellor will meet with Russia's president about Ukraine. Trump's accountant says a decade of financial statements are unreliable. The federal trial of Ahmaud Arbery's killers has started.

A gauzy, slow-motion headbanger that gives 50 Foot Wave's Kristin Hersh space to bare her teeth.

Listening to Kurt Vile's "Like Exploding Stones" is like falling down the rabbit-hole. James Stewart of the Sun Ra Arkestra guests.