NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." ...

The Pennsylvania senator says the Administration is dumping “three feet of raw sewage” on America, “and we have a Dixie cup” ...

Considered by many to be one of the greatest movies of all time, The Shawshank Redemption celebrated its milestone 30 th ...

[songbirds chirping] [soft piano music] ♪ ♪ narrator: Over the many decades since his death, hundreds of schools ... for "Uncle Tom's Cabin," the book that helped fuel the abolitionist ...

Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth”) is the first work of non-fiction by Markus Zusak, who wrote the international best seller ...

Linda Lavin’s cause of death has been revealed. The “Alice” actress passed away Dec. 29 after suffering cardiopulmonary arrest with lung cancer listed as the underlying cause, according to ...

Narrated by J.K. Simmons, “The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery” covers the sea lamprey invasion and tells a story of how society and science united to save local fish. It is slated to be ...

The musician’s wife Sherkita Long-Platt announced his death Friday morning on Facebook. “I just lost my husband and my kids lost their father,” she wrote. “Our life will never be the same.” ...

Long-Platt issued a statement on Facebook just hours after her husband’s death. “Please respect me and my family. I just lost my husband and my kids just lost their father,” she wrote on Jan ...

A new study found that U.S. infant mortality rates overall are dropping, but that rates of sudden unexpected infant death may have increased in recent years. By Catherine Pearson Rates of sudden ...