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In Dancing Fish And Ammonites, the British writer reflects on growing older. She tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about adjusting to her husband's death and losing the desire for new things.

Cash prizes await "citizen scientists" who can improve algorithms that help NASA find and identify asteroids in our solar system, the agency says. A contest begins next week.

No, Raymond Chandler isn't churning out new material from the grave. This Philip Marlowe story is written by someone else, yet it retains many of the crime writer's best qualities.

After a five-decade career in broadcasting, Carl Kassell announced his retirement Tuesday. "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" will perform at the San Diego Civic Theater on May 1.

Hispanics are disproportionately enrolled in community colleges and two-year schools. Experts say this partially explains why they are much less likely than other groups to attain bachelor's degrees.

Blake Bailey has written about John Cheever and Richard Yates — now, he's describing real-life suburban alcoholic despair in a memoir of his troubled brother, The Splendid Things We Planned.

In her new book of essays, I See You Made an Effort, comedian Annabelle Gurwitch muses on middle-aged life. Critic Heller McAlpin says that the book, infused throughout with "sharp wit," is hilarious.

The covering of America's largest landfill -- east of downtown Los Angeles -- is underway.

If there are any unwritten rules to playing Jeopardy!, Arthur Chu may have broken them all.

Friday, Aug. 16, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Common Sense has brought their sundrenched sounds to The Belly Up since ‘87, and tonight continue to establish themselves as one of California’s premier reggae rock bands with a high energy performance, heartfelt lyrics and melodic harmonies. Then next up: San Diego’s new Americana sweetheart Sara Petite.