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Leah Johnson never saw herself in the novels she grew up with, so she wrote her own. Her debut is about the joy and frustration of growing up Black and queer in a place where that's not the norm.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks to NPR's Rachel Martin about the administration's next step in immigration policy. Biden calls the Trump-era program for asylum-seekers "inhumane."

The Super Bowl is Sunday and there's a chicken wing shortage. NPR's Michel Martin talks with food writer Mike Pomranz about what's driving the shortage.

Domestic tourism has been strong in Iraq's northern Kurdish region, but sites in more impoverished, insecure areas tend to be visited less. A few Iraqi tourism companies are trying to change that.

For the past 80 years, the Man of Steel has endured in books, movies, radio serials, comic books and cartoons. "Americans embrace Superman partly because he captured so many things that are part of our psyche and part of our sense of ourselves," says biographer Larry Tye.

Lemony Snicket, a.k.a. Daniel Handler, gained a dedicated following of young readers with his darkly funny A Series of Unfortunate Events books. Now the Baudelaire orphans have made the big screen. Handler tells NPR's Michele Norris about his own childhood fears and adult apprehensions.

Excerpt: 'The Last Light of the Sun'

Mistrust towards China-produced vaccines, general vaccine hesitancy and distribution complications have all been obstacles in getting the vaccine out in some countries.

Book reviewer Alan Cheuse selects the highlights of this holiday season: futuristic dystopias; things that go bump in the night; portraits from Norman Rockwell's America; gay New York; a celebration of our immigrant adventures; one writer's journey to manhood; and, of course, Long John Silver.

Melodrama is essential to any American soap opera, and the same holds true for their Chinese counterparts. Rachel DeWoskin talks about her role as an aggressive Westerner in a Chinese daytime drama, and her new book, Foreign Babes in Beijing.

The WHO declared a pandemic. The NBA shut down its season. President Trump banned travel from Europe. Tom Hanks tested positive. On one day a year ago, the coronavirus became very real in America.

The stories of Nigerian-born writer Uwem Akpan offer a well-crafted and chilling vision of Africa, from young Kenyan girls prostituting themselves to pay their younger brothers' school fees to a deadly bus ride down the spine of Nigeria.

Nam Le's The Boat is a collection of short stories loosely based on Le's own experience as a writer. The book takes the reader from the South China Sea to Bogota to Tehran and Beyond. He talks with Guy Raz about writing from experience and creating fiction through research.

Journalist Nathan Hodge is the co-author of the book A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry with his wife, Sharon Weinberger. They traveled to 10 U.S. states and 4 foreign countries to visit nuclear sites, including ones in Nevada, Russia and Iran.

Many colleges and universities are cancelling or shortening the annual week off that's usually a rite of spring, but good vaccination news has people booking vacations over the summer months.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis is investigating after NPR reported that the boutique health care provider allowed ineligible patients to skip the COVID-19 vaccine line.

William Dodd served for four years as the ambassador to Germany before resigning — after repeated clashes with both Nazi Party officials and the State Department. Erik Larson chronicles Dodd's time in Berlin in his new book, In the Garden of Beasts.

The most anticipated collections of the year revisit the past and take us to the frontiers of language, borrowing from Twitter memes and overheard conversation, from the classics and bad movies.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with David Brooks of The New York Times and Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post about the census, the Democratic primary and criticism over President Trump's Fourth of July speech.

After being hard hit by the pandemic, Cornwall's Tavern is slowly returning to life. "It's great to get some energy back," co-owner Pam Beale says. "People come in and you can just feel it.'