Fresh Air's book critic says her picks tilt a bit to nonfiction, but the novels that made the cut redress the imbalance by their sweep and intensity. Karen Russell's The Antidote was her favorite.

Gehry is famous for monumental works like the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago.

These days, 95% of adoptions are "open," meaning birth parents, or the birth mother, have some degree of involvement with the adoptive family.

Paramount has launched a hostile bid for the company that's home to Casablanca, Batman and CNN. Just Friday, Netflix and Warner Brothers executives were celebrating a deal they had struck.

Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall presented the nominees for the 83rd Golden Globes this morning. The awards ceremony will be held on Jan. 11, hosted by Nikki Glaser.

For decades, Gary J. Walters worked in the White House, including 20 years as chief usher. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with him about his new memoir, "White House Memories."

Sunday's Kennedy Center Honors ceremony was the first since Donald Trump became the Chair of the Board of Trustees. KISS, Sylvester Stallone and George Strait were among the honorees.

President Trump said he was closely involved with picking the honorees, and on Sunday he became the first president to host the Kennedy Center awards ceremony.

The pianist, composer and arranger spent more than six decades turning El Gran Combo into one of the premier salsa institutions of Latin America and beyond.

The new movie stars Lucy Liu as an ailing mother to Joe, played by Lawrence Shou as a teenager facing mental illness in his feature debut role.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KQED listener Mike Rombach of Pleasanton, California and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.



This week, Wait Wait is live in Phoenix with host Peter Sagal, special guest judge and scorekeeper Alzo Slade, special guest Andy Richter and panelists Shantira Jackson

, Luke Burbank, and Alonzo Bodden.