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China is to gradually raise the retirement age for its workforce next year. The news is met with mixed reaction in the Chinese capital. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Sept. 16, 2024.)

Reports of former Fox star and Trump insider Kimberly Guilfoyle's multimillion-dollar sexual harassment settlement suggests misconduct at Fox knows no gender.

In New Mexico, a group of firefighters is assisting the Border Patrol in rescuing migrants in the Southern New Mexico desert.

States across the East Coast, including North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Vermont, are expected to see wintry conditions that could lead to power outages and slippery roads.

Stephen McCauley's comic novel offers readers the gift of laughter as well as a more expansive image of what family can be. Book critic Maureen Corrigan says it was a perfect January read.

This drama about a young man's journey with his 5-year-old nephew into the Vietnamese countryside is composed mostly in long, unbroken takes — to quietly mesmerizing effect.

Philip Gefter's Cocktails with George and Martha traces the evolution of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — from Broadway sensation, to Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Unlike the Great Depression, our current recession hasn't yet produced much memorable literature, but book critic Maureen Corrigan says that situation, like the economy, seems to be changing.

Kinnovator, Fidgital, Bangst. This isn't gibberish. It's the language of Lizzie Skurnick. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Skurnick about her new book, That Should Be a Word.

The action takes place all in one day, as 7-year-old Sol attends the birthday party of her father, who's dying of cancer. But Tótem isn't really a movie about death; it's about living.