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Novelist Sue Miller's latest book, The Senator's Wife, revolves around the long-suffering wife of a promiscuous, charismatic politician and the idealistic young couple who move in next door.

Much has been made of the effects the recent financial crisis will have on "Main Street." Linguist Geoff Nunberg Geoff Nunberg discusses how this term gained such popular — and presidential — usage.

Andrew J. Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University and a retired Army colonel, discusses his new book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.

Journalist James Fallows explores China's recent rise to power and what it means for the US in his new book of essays, Postcards Tomorrow Square.

Although many Americans heard Barack Obama's inauguration speech, they probably weren't listening for plyptotons and catachresis — but Geoff Nunberg was.

In Pride of Carthage, David Anthony Durham delivers a historical novel about the great North African general, Hannibal. Reviewer Alan Cheuse calls it a masterly rendering of antique Mediterranean-and world-history.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on a daylong journey through Manhattan with Eric Utne, the founder of Utne magazine. He has just created the Urban Almanac, a twist on the Old Farmer's Almanac. It shows city-dwellers where to find and enjoy nature.

Robert Siegel talks with Peter Bernstein, author of Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, about the building of the canal and its impact on America, east and west.

Sheilah Kast speaks with James Cochrane about grammatical errors that are becoming more common in spoken and written English. Cochrane is author of Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English.

Last week, a group of Niger's security forces detained the country's democratically elected president and claimed to be in power.