Journalist Lisa Crites invented a water-resistant garment after her own breast cancer diagnosis. The Shower Shirt™ protects post-surgical drains and catheters, allowing patients to shower safely.

Nigerian inventor Ubokobong Amanam has earned international recognition after TIME magazine named his bionic arm, designed to restore both the appearance and functionality of missing limbs, among its ...

This weekend, Radio National will count down its Top 100 Australian books poll, in which voters picked their favourite work of any genre. The winner will be crowned on Sunday. It’s an ambitious ...

War in Iran Saudi-Houthi Conflict Strait of Hormuz U.S. Cost of War Advertisement Supported by Nonfiction In “The Best Kind of American,” Kim Ghattas shows what an American’s assassination in Lebanon ...

In 1984, the president of American University of Beirut was shot to death on campus. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Kim Ghattas about her new book about the unsolved case, "The Best Kind of American." ...

Madeline Cash’s delightful debut about family dysfunction, Lost Lambs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), calls to mind early Maria Semple with the density of its wit and the intricacies of its plot. The ...

The Canadian poet won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. If you’ve never read any of her work, here’s where to start. By Ash Wu Anne Carson, the prolific Canadian essayist, novelist and poet, was ...