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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the devastating losses and the inept government response, dominated the news cycle for a few months. But New Orleans residents' struggle to return home never stopped. Writer Daniel Wolff's new book follows several Crescent City characters as they rebuild after the disaster.

Hurricane Isaac may be long gone but there's a lot of work to do to clean up the mess left behind. For people in Mississippi, it will be a difficult couple of weeks. NPR's Russell Lewis reports.

Freshmen "common reads" are becoming increasingly popular at American colleges and universities. One of the more popular common read assignments is Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Originally broadcast on Sept. 8, 2011.

Some New York City neighborhoods have been changed forever by the storm. This borough saw half of the city's fatalities, but on Friday, neighbors helped neighbors as people everywhere began to rebuild their lives.

Silvia Hartmann is writing a novel in Google Docs so that readers can see her story appear line by line, edit by edit. Host Scott Simon talks with writer Silvia Hartmann about her progress.

Tunisia's democracy is threatened by attacks from Tunisians who went to lawless Libya and became militants. Now there's fear the country's attempt to crack down will morph into authoritarianism.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to journalist Dalia Mortada in Istanbul for the latest on the attempted military coup in Turkey. Government leaders say the coup attempt Friday evening has failed.

For many French Islamist terrorists, radicalization started while serving time in French prisons. Sociologist Farhad Khosrokhavar says some young Muslims see radicalism as a way to strike back at a secular society.

Ailsa Chang talks to Bishop Pablo Virgilio David about the Philippine government's war on drugs, which has killed thousands of people since it began last year.

Two people were killed in what authorities called a "terrorist attack" at a military base in Venezuela. Twenty men in military uniforms infiltrated the base. Some escaped with weapons.