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In honor of Mother's Day, The Kitchen Sisters linger in the room in the house where families gather and children are fed, where all good parties begin and end. The room where the best stories are told.

Rona Jaffe's hit 1958 book The Best of Everything is being reissued, along with a DVD of the 1959 movie. Renee Montagne speaks with Jaffe about the smashing success of her first novel.

If you've spent any time around cats, you've seen them curl up in cozy spaces. A new study on feline cognition shows that they also like to sit in snug squares created by a kind of optical illusion.

Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post, talks about his book Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War.

Coldplay is pledging to make the band's current tour "as sustainable and low carbon as possible."

In Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times, Don and Petie Kladstrup offer the history of a New Year's Eve staple that had rather inauspicious beginnings.

A battalion of Marines based in Ohio is mourning the loss of 14 comrades, who died in a roadside bomb attack Wednesday in Iraq's Anbar province. It's the battalion's second loss in three days: six other marines died Monday in the same area.

Subscribers to The New Yorker often complain they can't get one issue read before the next one comes. That problem's about to get worse: the magazine is putting all of its back issues — dating to the 1920s — on an eight-DVD set. Steve Inskeep talks to Edward Klaris, who directed the project.

Author Michael Chorost discusses his new book, Rebuilt. It's the story of how he became deaf and received a computer-chip implant to help him regain his hearing. Adjusting to the cochlear implant wasn't easy — there was much work to do before he could recognize everyday sounds again.

The Jan. 6 panel heard testimony from former President Donald Trump's campaign manager in a hearing on Trump's awareness that he lost in 2020 and his effort to push the lie that he won in spite of it.