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Bruce Holsinger's new novel — about overprivileged parents cheating to get their kids into a magnet school — is very topical, but the characters are too flat to hook readers' attention for long.

A decades-old magazine caters to Chinese immigrants in New Jersey — helping newcomers fit in, and celebrating the community's successes. (Story aired on All Things Considered on May 31, 2023.)

The Trump administration is cracking down on colleges and universities whose behavior it finds objectionable.

AI is sucking up energy and tech companies are looking at ways to power it. There's been a lot of talk about nuclear, but those projects are years away and AI's thirst for energy is happening now.

When you see a bunch of guys playing street basketball you might not just see a game. In his new book Black Gods of the Asphalt author Onaje Woodbine shows how it's also a spiritual experience.

A group charged with rebuilding lower Manhattan today chose Berlin-based architect Daniel Libeskind's multi-structure design for the former World Trade Center site. Andrea Bernstein reports that the selection probably won't end the controversy of how to best honor the victims of Sept. 11. Also, NPR's Melissa Block talks with an architecture expert on the merits -- and downfalls -- of the design. See a photo of the winning plan.

The Commoner, a novel by John Burnham Schwartz, paints a picture of the suffocating life that follows marriage into the Japanese royal family. The story sheds light on the real-life imperial family.

Carol Baldauf plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.

NPR's Melissa Block and Sam Sanders play this week's puzzle with Will Shortz, The New York Times crossword editor and Weekend Edition's Puzzlemaster.

Our annual reading guide returns with 380+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 13 years of recommendations all in one place — that's more than 4,000 great reads.