A True Believer Remembers Stan Lee
Stan Lee — born Stanley Martin Lieber — co-created many beloved Marvel Comics characters, but he became the company's tireless, beloved figurehead. NPR's Glen Weldon offers a remembrance.
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Michelle Obama Speaks With Young Women From Her Chicago High School About 'Becoming'
NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with former first lady Michelle Obama about her new book Becoming. Cornish and Obama are joined in the conversation by three young women from Obama's high school in Chicago.
A Marvel Of A Man: Stan Lee Dead At 95
Lee gave us over six decades' worth of superheroes we could identify with, characters like Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, who reacted to superpowered crises in believably flawed, human ways.
Stolen Stories: A Literary Con Man Climbs To Success In 'Ladder To The Sky'
A charismatic young writer poaches plot points from the lives of established authors in John Boyne's new novel. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls A Ladder to the Sky "erudite and ingeniously constructed."
Counting The Bugs And Bacteria, You're 'Never Home Alone' (And That's OK)
Ecologist Rob Dunn's new book describes the tiny life forms, helpful and risky, that live in different parts of the home, including on floors and in water faucets, basements and heating systems.
Sourdough Hands: How Bakers And Bread Are A Microbial Match
In Robert Dunn's new book, Never Home Alone, he explores our symbiotic relationship with food: Not only do we impact the bacteria in our food, but the microbes in our food imprint our bodies.
EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama Reads From Her Forthcoming Memoir 'Becoming'
In two audio clips from her memoir, set to hit shelves Tuesday, the former first lady reads about her life at Princeton and about her difficulties having a baby.
'Boy Erased': The True Story Behind The Film
Garrard Conley's memoir of growing up as the gay son of a conservative Baptist preacher has been made into a movie. He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin.
Michelle Obama Tells The Story Of 'Becoming' Herself — And The Struggle To Hang On
The former first lady's new book is a story about her history, how that influenced who she is — and learning to adapt after agreeing to let that life be hijacked by politics.
A Noir Novel For The Trump Era, From Jonathan Lethem
The Feral Detective follows a New Yorker reeling from the 2016 election and the eccentric private eye of the title deep into the California desert.