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Film critic Roger Ebert is famous for arguing about movies on TV with Gene Siskel. Now that cancer surgeries have left him without the ability to speak, Ebert has found a new voice online. Melissa Block visits him at his Chicago home to talk about his memoir, Life Itself.

Anthropologist Barbara J. King reviews a new book that suggests domesticating the wolf gave early modern humans an extra edge in hunting that pushed Neanderthals to extinction.

American Sepp Kuss has won La Vuelta, a cycling jewel, after getting help from two teammates who have won six Grand Tour titles between them.

For author Bruce DeSilva, Providence, R.I.'s storied history of mob violence and small-town sense of intimacy make it the perfect place to set his crime fiction. The only trouble, he says, is toning down the truth just enough to make it believable.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Aaron David Miller, the State Department's former deputy special Middle East coordinator, about the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza and the U.S. response.

Exploding ATMs add another complication to Rio de Janeiro's chronic security crisis, spreading fear among the public and dealing a blow to property prices for residents with homes near banks.

In a new book, Terry Golway takes a sympathetic view of Manhattan's infamous political machine. He says, "Tammany Hall was there for the poor immigrant who was otherwise friendless in New York."

A new movement has emerged in recent years: de-influencing. What started as a backlash to advertising could now have a surprising and real-world impact on the environment.

To celebrate Disability Pride Month, NPR readers tell their disability stories and share what they wish other people knew about living with a disability.

Wall Drug is a huge, cowboy-themed tourist attraction near Badlands National Park, visited by 2 million people a year. It also has a functional pharmacy that faces many of the challenges of rural health care.