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The author of Man Booker Prize finalist Washington Black began her new book on a plantation in 1830s Barbados. "I really have no idea where my story is going at the outset of it," she says.

After Hurricane Katrina, one Randy Newman song was played often. Renee Montagne talks to Newman about Louisiana 1927. (This piece initially aired on Sept. 9, 2005, on Morning Edition.)

Brit Bennett's debut novel centers on three African-American friends dealing with their community's expectations and their own mistakes. Critic Maureen Corrigan says it is full of "mini epiphanies."

The industry is recovering from a massive bird flu outbreak and high inflation rates, but prices may not fall to what they once were.

This week is likely when Christopher John Worrell, a Naples resident and member of the "Proud Boys" who was re-apprehended by the FBI Sept. 28, is brought to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.Worrell's arrest by the FBI on Thursday came after he was found unconscious his home in Naples. The agency said the U.S. Capitol breach case participant attempted to covertly return to his Collier County home.

After the most recent round of diplomatic expulsions, the U.S. embassy in Moscow has lost vital staff — including those working on important bilateral issues, like Syria, Ukraine and arms control. For ordinary Russians, the cuts at the embassy mean it's virtually impossible to get a U.S. visa in Moscow anymore.

New public opinion polls show distaste for National Security Agency surveillance does not break cleanly across party lines. Despite the administration's attempts otherwise, one new study finds that the more people know about the NSA, the more they dislike it.

Indigenous Brazilians are joining forces to defend the Amazon forest from fires set by invaders on their land. More than a dozen indigenous groups met recently to strategize.

In 1975, photographer Penny Wolin checked into the St. Francis Hotel in Hollywood — a place of dreamers and misfits who called the residential hotel home. There, the myth of Hollywood became real.

Donald Trump will become the first former president to face criminal charges — and it's happening right in the middle of a presidential primary campaign.