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Nir Rosen is a journalist and blogger who has spent much of the past three years in Iraq, including trips to areas many of his media colleagues could not reach. A book emerged: In the Belly of the Green Bird. He discusses recent events in Iraq with Debbie Elliott.

A new book explores Myanmar's people and brutal military junta by retracing George Orwell's path through Burma, where he lived as a young man in the 1920s.

William Kristol is the founder and editor of The Weekly Standard. Kristol also wrote The War Over Iraq: America's Mission and Saddam's Tyranny. Kristol also led the Project for the Republican Future to help win Republican congressional seats.

While Mama Had a Quick Little Chat, a new illustrated children's book, captures the frustration of a little girl who just wants her mother to get off the phone.

Flynt Leverett is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. A veteran expert on Middle East policy — from the National Security Council to the CIA, Leverett has also written a book, Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial By Fire, about Bashar al-Assad's rule of Syria.

At the age of 22, still in journalism school, and without official press credentials, David Enders went to Baghdad. There, he set up and edited the Baghdad Bulletin, an English-language newspaper, the only one of its kind.

Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi allows the Shiite weekly Al-Hawza to resume publication, reversing a decision by recently departed U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer. In Fallujah, attacks by U.S. forces left at least 11 dead. Hear NPR's Brian Naylor and NPR's Philip Reeves.

In a new book about the constitutional separation of church and state, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills insists that that separation was meant as "the great protector of religion, not its enemy." That hasn't stopped fervent believers from challenging the concept.

Some thrillers hit you over the head. But David Peace's latest post-war novel, Tokyo Year Zero, is more subtle. Peace has written half a dozen books that were well-received in England. His first American release is full of sound effects.

Writer James Traub discusses his new book, The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power. Traub recounts the intertwined story of Annan, the United Nations and American foreign policy from 1992 to the present. Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. His other books include City on a Hill and The Devil's Playground.