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Jacki Lyden talks with biographer Lyndall Gordon about the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th-century feminist and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Gordon describes Wollstonecraft's violent upbringing, her radical views on education, and her failed love affair.

In his new book, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, Yale professor and literary critic Harold Bloom wrestles with the meaning of God's covenant with the Hebrew people. Bloom discusses his own troubled feelings about the Hebrew God Yahweh with Debbie Elliott.

It takes 33 pages to list all the recordings of cellist Janos Starker. After 72 years of playing the cello and instructing students from around the world, he has written a memoir. NPR's Susan Stamberg talks with Starker about a life spent in music.

Voters have responded largely with distrust and apathy so far to Guatemalan candidates in the final days of political campaigning for Sunday's election.

President Biden is reportedly ready to announce his reelection bid.

NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports that Eva Cassidy a Washington, D.C., singer who died two years ago, has since become something of a star in Britain and a cult favorite in the United States.

Elections in Afghanistan are scheduled for Oct. 9. Interim President Hamid Karsai is the best known of 18 candidates for the presidency. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Philip Reeves.

How did Shakespeare become the greatest playwright in the world? Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt tackles that question in his new biography of the bard. Will In The World has been nominated for a National Book Award. Hear Greenblatt and NPR's Steve Inskeep.

Along Sri Lanka's tsunami-ravaged coast people are clearing up debris and putting their lives back together. Elsewhere, Sri Lankans who rely on the sea for their livelihood begin to confront the element that unleashed the catastrophe.

Writer Greg Tobin discusses the process of choosing the next pope. The selection process involves a centuries old and very secret ritual known as the conclave. Tobin is the author of Selecting the Pope: Uncovering the Mysteries of Papal Elections.