Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

In what is possibly the highlight of the tour, we travel up the side of the pyramid rising to the top, 481 feet high, so we can bask in the view while birds fly overhead.

First published in Spanish in 2018, “Living Things” is the debut novel by Munir Hachemi, who, we are told in the author bio, started out selling his stories in Madrid bars and was eventually ...