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Author Leonard Todd's new book, Carolina Clay, explores the life, art and legacy of a slave potter named Dave. Todd offers a personal perspective on the history of slavery: His great-great grandfather owned Dave.

India's Supreme Court says drug maker Novartis can't hold onto its patent for the pricey cancer drug Gleevec simply by tweaking its chemical formula. That means generic drug makers can keep making a form of the drug at a tenth of Novartis's price. Consumer advocates call it a major advance for access to generic drugs. The drug industry says it will chill companies' willingness to produce innovative products.

As a communist who spent two terms in jail where her prison guards repeatedly raped her, Majda was delighted to see Saddam Hussein go. But in Iraq's intensely conservative and divided society, she has had difficulty overcoming the stigma and trauma of her past.

Nina Bunjevac tackles two troublesome subjects in Fatherland: Her Serbian nationalist father, and the occasionally violent, extremist history of his country — all in a controlled, icy-cool style.

For Kendra Bailey Morris, canning represents the bounty of the season, and is as much a family tradition as holiday turkey. Like her grandmothers and mother before her, Morris now looks forward to the annual ritual of storing the fruits and vegetables of summer.

The new novel from The Prestige author Christopher Priest weaves together multiple millennia-spanning storylines, parallel universes, love, war, hope and loss in a dizzyingly metaphysical melange.

"I wanted my characters to be respectable. I wanted them to somehow escape the judgement they'd get for just being, the same kind of judgement I've gotten for just being..."

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Dan Ives, tech analyst at Wedbush Securities, about fees social media platform Reddit imposed on third-party app developers. Protests blacked out parts of the site.

More than 3,000 Serbs and Albanians remain listed as "missing or disappeared" in Kosovo, six years after the region's war. International forensic teams announced last weekend that they had found the remains of 22 Serbs, buried in a mass grave. Although 18,000 NATO troops have brought some stability, the fate of the missing haunts Kosovo.

Take Five takes a detour with jazz's older cousin, the blues, as well as one of its most recognizable techniques: slide guitar. Gliding a bottleneck up and down the strings, the guitarist creates a world-weary sound. Muddy Waters sits at the center of this decades-spanning list.