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Intelligent, gregarious and at times disarmingly personal, Justice Sonia Sotomayor's memoir, My Beloved World, recounts her trailblazing journey from a Bronx housing project to a bench on the Supreme Court.

When properly cooked, fried turkey can be an explosion for your taste buds. But if it's not completely thawed, that turkey can explode in a pot of hot oil and spark a dangerous fire.

Tales about travel don't always end well: Planes crash into jungles and ships run aground. For NPR's "Book Your Trip" series, Lynn Neary considers the rich genre of travel disaster literature.

Claire Messud's new novel, The Woman Upstairs, delves into the inner life of the quiet, friendly — and secretly furious — woman upstairs, a frustrated artist named Nora who becomes obsessed with a glamorous immigrant family.

Decades ago, Pakistan International Airlines was a trendy airline whose flight attendants wore Pierre Cardin uniforms. These days the national carrier is $3 billion in debt and fighting privatization.

Author Craig Nova recommends three books that take a fresh approach to the age-old bildungsroman. The experience of growing up is both universal and unique — and, in these books, timeless.

Since its Olympic debut in 1996, St. Lucia has never won a medal of any kind. Sha'Carri Richardson, who had entered the Paris Games as the 100-meter favorite, finished in second to win silver.

Venezuela released 10 Americans, 21 Venezuelans — and extradited the man behind a brazen bribery scheme. In exchange, President Biden granted clemency to an an ally of leader Nicolas Maduro.

The measure, which would provide $95 billion in military aid, has little hope of seeing a vote in the House where hard-line Republicans oppose the measure.

Meanwhile, members of Congress are asking for details about the incident, which was first reported by NPR.