The prolific author has a new book out on Aug. 12 (“We Are All Guilty Here”), also debutsas scriptwriter and showrunner for 'The Good Daughter' series.

At the heart of Prachi Deshpande’s book is an understanding of written language as an infinitely adaptable medium for human ...

Singh’s obsession for the black-and-white grid was born during a university strike in the 1980s. More than 40 years later, ...

Majapahit was also one of the largest thallasocratic empires of its time. The Javanese naval supremacy was a force to be reckoned with, even for the colonial empires. The Portuguese, for instance, ...

The word "deadline" has been used a lot in reference to tariffs. It got us thinking: what is the origin of the word? NPR's Scott Simon talks with Benjamin Dreyer, author of "Dreyer's English." ...

Producer Sara McFarlane and filmmaker Maria McIndoo have acquired the film rights to author Claire Keegan’s short story 'So ...

The bad blood between India and Pakistan was not an abstract thing: my mother’s Sikh family had lost everything during the ...

Thoreau’s God is impressive in scope. Through extensive research and review of Thoreau’s voluminous writing, Higgins ...

Martha Barnette has spent two decades as the co-host of "A Way with Words," lauded by Mary Norris in The New Yorker as “a ...