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This technique for manipulating genes borrows a strategy from the way bacteria fight viruses. It's still experimental, but the possibilities excite medical researchers hoping to tailor treatments.

Writer Julia Keller, who grew up in the state, says she surprised herself when she set her novels there. But riverbanks, convenience stores and abandoned coal mines make for perfect crime scenes.

For a country that prides itself on being a nation of immigrants, there are surprisingly few movies about the experience. But filmmaker James Gray says immigrant stories are inherently cinematic.

An amendment working its way through Congress would rename the street in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington after Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.

The artist-run Vision Festival, now in its 19th year, remains as staunchly committed to its mission as ever. But as its audience ages, it's sowing seeds of community outreach and childhood education.

A private university elects to make a popular video game into an official varsity sport. Marketing ploy or sign of the future?

For our latest installment of the occasional feature Weekend Reads, novelist Alexander Chee recommends Maggie Shipstead's Astonish Me, about a ballerina who leaves the world of dance to have a child.

Also: Evie Wyld's gorgeous, grim novel All the Birds, Singing has won the Encore award; Clinton's Hard Choices sold more than 100,000 copies in its first week.

Also: NPR Books launches a new series called "Book Your Trip"; David Levithan on why it's important for LGBTQ characters to be well represented in YA novels.

Sunday, June 22, 2014 at 4 p.m. & Tuesday, July 1 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. "American Pharaoh," goes behind the scenes with the Egyptian national soccer team — the “Pharaohs” — and its former coach, American Bob Bradley, to capture their historic attempt to reach the 2014 World Cup, which created intense national pride and sparked headlines across the globe.