Laia Jufresa’s new novel Umami traces a group of neighbors, each getting over a private grief. Scott Simon asks Jufresa about the book and the woman who translated it from Spanish to English.
Linda Wertheimer talks to the Dutch writer about his novel: A teacher has an affair with his student. She breaks it off. He disappears.
Alaska’s a state that’s “not too precious about itself,” Eggers says. In Heroes of the Frontier, he follows an out-of-work dentist as she moves her small family to an unfamiliar home.
The Obama Foundation named Tod Williams and Billie Tsien as the architects of the presidential museum and library. Scott Simon talks to Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin.
As thousands of younger Americans leave the military the USDA would like them to consider carrying the torch as older farmers start to retire.
Recently, true crime documentaries have brought up old cases. Deidre Enright, head of The Innocence Project and featured in Season One of Serial, discusses what it means to re-litigate select cases.
Holy Family Parish in Chicago is celebrating its 155th anniversary with a gift of religious relics the Vatican says have ties to Jesus, Mary and Joseph. But Pastor Jerry Boland of Holy Family says …
