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It's summertime, and the kitchen is too hot for big-time baking — and ice cream just won't cut it for everyone. Cookbook author Dorie Greenspan shares ideas for quick and easy desserts that take advantage of summer's bounty.

In 1957, French-Algerian writer Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and his short story collection Exile and the Kingdom was first published in French. The first English translations of the stories were not well received by critics. Fifty years later, Carol Cosman has newly translated the book.

The Pulitzer-winner's newest is a "murder-mystery speculative-history Jewish-identity noir chess thriller," in the words of Publishers Weekly. It's a private-eye story set in a fictional community of Jewish exiles — "the frozen chosen" — displaced to a temporary settlement in Alaska by World War II.

Journalist and historian Burton Hersh has followed the Kennedy family for more than 35 years. His latest book is Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover that Transformed America.

For thousands of years, the Psalms have been a powerful part of Jewish and Christian liturgy. In translation, they contain some of the most memorable lines ever written in English. Robert Alter has published a new translation of the Psalms.

The political columnist gets personal in a new collection of essays — on topics from Web-stalking a cheating boyfriend to what she learned about her parents using the Freedom of Information Act.

What if you could diagnose cancer just by smelling it? Dr. William Hanson explains the 'Diag-Nose' — an electronic nose that can do just that — plus other medical technologies that he says will change our lives.

Robert Kuttner has reported on elections for more than 30 years. His new book, Obama's Challenge, looks at the Herculean obstacles the president-elect faces — and what it will take to tackle them.

Today, as Christians around the world commemorate Good Friday, Christian scholar and former priest John Dominic Crossan joins Fresh Air to discuss the historical Jesus, the role of crucifixion in antiquity, and the beginnings of Christianity.

In her new book, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of A Great Victorian Detective, Kate Summerscale revisits the gruesome 150-year-old murder that helped catapult British mystery fiction into being. Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan offers a review.