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In Crude World, journalist Peter Maass argues that our relentless pursuit of oil has created a host of problems in the world — particularly in the countries that hold the most deposits. He explains why our dependence on the fossil fuel is not without social and environmental costs.

Former CIA operatives Robert and Dayna Baer met on the job and fell in love. They talk about their relationship and some of their assignments in The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story.

Robert and Dayna Baer were both married — to other people — when they met working undercover for the CIA in war-torn Sarajevo. Their new book tells the story of their unlikely relationship with each other and the CIA.

Children's author Daniel Pinkwater and Scott Simon read The Secret Science Project that ALMOST Ate the School by Judy Sierra and Stephen Gammel. Pinkwater also offers a list of books to give, get or simply read and enjoy this winter.

When the world was first introduced to the Web comic Sluggy Freelance in 1997, a character named Riff had summoned the devil online. Since then, Sluggy and his peculiar friends have had many adventures. Creator and illustrator Pete Abrams celebrates a decade of his Internet comic this weekend.

Since 1990, faithful readers have followed the cases of Easy Rawlins, author Walter Mosley's hard-boiled, Los Angeles detective. His new novel, Blonde Faith, is the 10th book in the Rawlins series — and, Mosley says, the last.

The fourth report in a six-part series examines the mysterious factor that gives the Ganges River a mythical reputation among the millions of Indians who bathe and drink the river's water.

On the short list for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction was a novel by New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones. The brilliant and compelling Mister Pip is set on a remote South Pacific island called Bougainville as civil war breaks out.

After 10 years, the best-selling book Into the Wild is coming to the big screen. Author Jon Krakauer discusses the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who went to live off the land in the Alaskan wilderness, where he died at age 24.

Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina opens with the line: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." A new book about Tolstoy's wife shows how their marriage seems to have fallen into the second category.