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Journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the former Baghdad bureau chief for The Washington Post. His new book about the Green Zone in Baghdad during the first year of the U.S. occupation is Imperial Life in the Emerald City.

The Internet is a happy accident of the 20th century. But law professor Jonathan Zittrain wonders whether the net can survive in a culture of freedom and innovation.

Writer Emily Rapp's left foot was amputated when she was four years old, and she has worn a prosthetic device ever since. Her book is Poster Child: A Memoir.

David Kirp, author of The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics, talks about the movement to give every child a chance to attend preschool.

In a single monologue, the protagonist of Mohsin Hamid's sophomore novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, tells his life story to an American stranger over dinner in a Pakistani cafe. Hamid's first novel, Moth Smoke, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Alan Cheuse reviews The Fearless Man, by Donald Pfarrer, a novel about two men on a combat mission in Vietnam, and their struggle to make sense out of what they believe is their duty.

Alan Cheuse reviews Angel of Harlem, Kuwana Haulsey's biographical novel based on the life of Dr. May Chinn, the first female African-American doctor in Harlem.

A young paramedic in Manhattan is the subject of Shannon Burke's first novel. It's called Safelight. Hear Burke and NPR's Scott Simon.

The illustrated children's book Guji Guji is a modern-day ugly duckling story with a reptilian twist: the title character is a crocodile raised among a family of ducks. Daniel Pinkwater and NPR's Scott Simon read from the book.

White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer discusses his new memoir, Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House.