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News drives the currency markets, so the traders at Global FX reacted quickly when the latest unemployment numbers were released Friday. Owner Andrew Spanton trains currency traders, but most won't make the cut.

The U.S. Senate this week issued a resolution apologizing for the federal government's failure to act against the lynchings that claimed thousands of lives from 1880 to 1968. Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains what motivates the government to issue apologies for actions that are often many decades in the past.

British writer Nick Hornby's comic talents have been on display since the novel High Fidelity. Hornby talks about writing for the British and the American ear, and how music plays a role in his creative process.

John Burdett's Bangkok is far more than the bizarre murders, corrupt cops and big-hearted bar girls of his novels. It's also the city as a living breathing, thing.

In his new novel, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Pullman, the noted atheist and author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, imagines Jesus as a preacher propped up by his ambitious, less moral twin, Christ.

In his new memoir, pro-nerd Simon Pegg talks Star Wars, comedy and the zombie apocalypse. And he weighs in on the ongoing genre controversy — the "schism in the church of the undead" — slow zombies versus fast zombies? Definitely slow zombies, Pegg says.

Although much of his work was as a sideman, Wadud was one of the most important jazz musicians of the 1970s, '80s and '90s.

Playing video games for a living sounds like a dream job. But toxic fans and demanding schedules can turn that dream into a nightmare.

Tribes hold twenty percent of the Colorado River's water rights, but historically have been excluded from the agreements that govern it. They're now pushing to play a larger role in talks.

What makes a great beach read? The producer of our book series, Ellen Silva, thinks it's a book set where you're vacationing. She has picked four spots — Venice Beach, Calif.; Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts; and South Beach in Florida — with great surf and even better books.

Since the U.S. invasion, 4 million Iraqis have had to leave their homes. An additional 2 million have left the country entirely, and many are still outside its borders. NPR's Deborah Amos tells the story of these displaced Iraqi citizens in her new book, Eclipse of the Sunnis.

Musician Jeremiah Lockwood hopes to introduce the world to a new music scene bubbling in Brooklyn.