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Virus hunter Joseph Fair speaks about the needs and challenges ahead for containing the outbreak, and why he thinks things will get worse before they get better.

Service members are prescribed narcotic painkillers three times as often as civilians. For some vets, dependence on those pills becomes a bigger problem than their original ailment.

Imagine spending 22 hours a day locked in a small, concrete room. That’s daily life for about 4,000 California prisons inmates.

Commentator Frank Deford has cooked up a plan that invokes Tinker Bell for baseball's annual All-Star Game.

Earlier this week, we told you about the head of Colorado's Department of Corrections who was shot and killed after answering the front door of his home.

Airs Thursdays, April 7 - May 12, 2016 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Airs Tuesdays, July 16, 23 & August 6, 2013 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Molly Antopol's short stories are set in many different times and places. But reviewer Meg Wolitzer says each one will make you nostalgic for another era in short fiction, a time when writer like Bernard Malamud, and Issac Bashevis Singer and Grace Paley roamed the earth.

One of the three people killed in a Los Angeles County helicopter crash on Sunday was Army Special Forces veteran Michael Donatelli. He had served four tours of duty in Iraq.

A determined travel writer sets out to produce the first guide to a mysterious middle-European country in Gene Wolfe's new The Land Across. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says Wolfe mixes Kafka-esque mystery and paranoia with dark supernatural influences for "supposedly realistic novel that gives off the feel of a closely viewed dream."