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Steve Inskeep talks to Bennett Haselton, an American software developer who has figured out a way for computer users in China to get around the Chinese government's Internet firewall.

As she nears the end of her own life, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing is attempting to make some sense of her beginnings: Her new novel, Alfred And Emily, imagines a better life for her parents — one in which they marry different people.

Tucked away in boxes, deep in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, are objects that tell the history of American education.

In The Deptford Trilogy, the erudite Robertson Davies weaves together the lives of three adversarial men, all connected by a troubling childhood incident. Author Amy Bloom says that Davies' complicated characters electrify this winding story with wackiness, compassion and unexpected sincerity.

Can a book of elegies rise above maudlin morbidity? Author Stewart O'Nan says yes — and he recommends a great one by Christie Hodgen. It's a book that will break your heart, and warm your soul.

Jón Gnarr, the punk rocker turned mayor of Rekjavík, paints a beautiful but disturbing portrait of a misfit childhood in his new novel. Critic Michael Schaub calls it hypnotic and heartbreaking.

As a child devouring homemade madeleines, Elizabeth Tannen didn't realize there was anything unusual about her father's twist on the classic French treat or that it had a literary connotation. Years later, with a madeleine pan from her dad, she developed a few twists of her own.

Japan suffered through a recession in the 1990s — a downturn they combatted with stimulus. As Japan's economy takes a turn for the worse again, what does that say about the U.S. stimulus plan? Adam Posen, deputy director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, talks about how Japan's current and past economic situations mirror our own.

When a southern town decided to put up a historical marker, few knew it would unlock the secrets of a long-forgotten Civil Rights murder.

In her photographic project Frame of Reference, April M. Frazier presents archives of her family's deep-rooted Texan lineage from 1890 through to the present day.