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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to hold two more hearings this week, including one in primetime.

The subpoena requires the former president to produce documents by Nov. 4 and to appear for testimony on or about Nov. 14.

In fiction, Adam Johnson offers a view of life in North Korea under Kim Jong Il. In nonfiction, Ronald Kessler looks into the FBI's tactical operations teams, and Peter D. Ward explores the likely impact of our rapidly melting ice caps.

On the surface, certain academic pursuits may seem trivial, but sometimes odd courses can be instructive and illuminating.

This week brings four novels about love: childhood love in immigrant Brooklyn; married love in dot-com San Francisco; intergenerational love and tension in Philadelphia; and an academic father's sometimes obtuse love for his three daughters. In nonfiction, football star Michael Oher describes his experiences in foster care.

Award-winning authors Jon Krakauer and Barry Lopez discuss their lives and their work at Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival on November 7, 2015.

Fight for America! is a new art installation about democracy that invites audiences to play a war game — battling over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Vote-trading scandals in the 1998 and 2002 Olympics forced the International Skating Union to make major changes to its judging system, including obscuring which judge issued which mark. Sports correspondent Mike Pesca discusses the issue of transparency and subjectivity in Olympics judging with NPR's Rachel Martin.

Mornings are hard enough to face when you're not trudging off to a world of cubicles and fluorescent lights. Just waking up presents a challenge. Try this playlist for those days when you need more than two cups of coffee just to summon the strength to walk out the door in the morning.

An amateur orchestra helps an English village transcend WWII in Alexander McCall Smith's latest novel, while in nonfiction, a popular ESPN columnist takes on the NBA, an English military historian revisits the Civil War, and a journalist confronts species loss around the world.