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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with NPR music critic Ann Powers and music scholar Shana Redmond about how old and new protest music reflects political moments, following the Supreme Court overturning Roe.

Marjorie Zien remembers her mother, Renee Hebert, who died of COVID-19 in 2020. She was 89.

In his new novel, Engleby, Sebastian Faulks keeps readers off balance as he traces the life of Mike Engleby, a cold, detached man who is suspected of an unsolved murder. Eventually the crime comes back to haunt him, and repressed memories bubble to the surface.

In his book, A Contract with the Earth, Newt Gingrich describes a conservative approach to conservation. He says it would focus more on technology-based, entrepreneurial solutions, not regulation, litigation and taxation.

Michael Chabon's novel, Gentlemen of the Road, is a swashbuckling tale set about a thousand years ago. It follows the adventures of two Jewish horse thieves and mercenaries who travel through a fabled Jewish kingdom.

Community and food are the central topics of Bonny Wolf's new book, a collection of essays called Talking with My Mouth Full. Wolf shares her thoughts on the recent shift in U.S. attitudes toward food.

Annie Leibovitz has been photographing celebrities for four decades — those long-awaited photos of Suri Cruise in Vanity Fair were hers. Leibovitz's portraits of stars have made her something of a celebrity herself, but a new book of her work reveals a more personal side to Leibovitz.

Studying Charles Darwin's documents has evolved from visiting the library at Cambridge University to visiting a Web site. The British university has just made a trove of about 20,000 papers from Darwin's life and studies accessible online.

U.S. Senator Jim Webb, a onetime Republican who won his Senate seat as a Democrat, has stayed clear of endorsing a candidate in the Democratic primaries. The retired Marine explains why — and talks about his disagreements with the Bush administration, the legislation he's introduced to expand benefits for Iraq War veterans, and his new book, A Time to Fight.

Bob Chase Sr. can't shake the memory of a spanking he gave his son 50 years ago. Though he views it as one of his greatest failings, his son urges his father to let the memory fade.