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Lan Samantha Chang's novel "The Family Chao" has a lot in common with Dostoevsky, except it revolves around a Chinese-American family in Wisconsin. Chang discusses the new work with Scott Simon.

Missouri's acting health director resigned after state GOP lawmakers complained he was not conservative enough.

Wordle is hardly the first puzzle to take the nation by storm. Scott Simon speaks with A.J. Jacobs, journalist and author, about his new book on the power of puzzles.

Thanks to supply chain delays, car shoppers are finding fewer choices and higher prices. But low supply and high demand is paying off handsomely for auto makers and dealers.

The winter Olympic Games kick off in China with messages of unity despite realities of division on the ground, while Tom Brady retires and a former coach sues the NFL for racial discrimination.

Jason Epstein, a towering figure in the New York City's intellectual scene who co-founded "The New York Review of Books" as well as the Library of America series, died this week at 93.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to director of Century International, Thanassis Cambanis, about how the Islamic State may react after the militant group lost its leader during a U.S. raid.

More than 900,000 people in the U.S. have now died from COVID-19, but that figure doesn't capture the full impact of the disease.

Scott Simon speaks to Shawn Harrington, who appeared in the 1994 basketball documentary "Hoop Dreams." He began teaching in Chicago this week after being the victim of a drive-by-shooting in 2014.

Historian Shermann Thomas is Chicago's most popular TikTok star, and he got there by telling cool facts about the city he loves. But what does he know about goats? We ask him 3 questions to find out.