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Working for Japan's Yomiuri Shinbun newspaper, reporter Jake Adelstein uncovered a world unknown to many of the Japanese public, let alone to foreigners: the world of organized crime. He details its landscape — and the dangers of covering it — in a new memoir.

Widely considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Andre Agassi admits in a new autobiography that he hates tennis, "with a dark and secret passion." Always has. He's here to talk with host Terry Gross about what he calls the "contradictions" at the core of his life.

In 1973, the Reform movement ordained the first woman rabbi in the United States — Sally Priesand. Rabbi Priesand retired this year after 25 years in the pulpit of Monmouth Reform Temple in Tinton Falls, N.J. She reflects on her career and her legacy as a trailblazer for women spiritual leaders.

Even as Ireland benefits from a booming high-tech economy, many are taking time to keep the past alive. The rural tradition of "rambling houses," where people gather for entertainment and fellowship, has been revived in County Kerry and elsewhere.

In their new book, Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally, authors Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon devote a year to eating only food produced within 100 miles of their Vancouver home.

Mars Needs Moms! tells the story of Milo, a boy who re-evaluates the value of moms when Martians kidnap his mother. Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed talks about his book and the sacrifices parents make for their children.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser for President Jimmy Carter, assesses the foreign policies of the three most recent U.S. presidents in Second Chance. He says Washington has squandered its first chance at global leadership.

Now a haven for fashionistas, New York's SoHo neighborhood was once more troubled than trendy. Irini Spanidou recreates the menacing SoHo of the late 1970s in her new novel, Before.

Scientists have found that female butterflies adapt to male-killing bacteria by becoming more promiscuous, while surviving males become exhausted and put less effort into mating.

The Day My Mother Left tells the story of a young boy whose mother leaves him — and how that experience stokes his love of art and nature. Author and artist James Prosek discusses the work, which is fiction but largely autobiographical.