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Kira Jane Buxton's novel imagines a viral apocalypse from the perspective of the animals left behind. Specifically, a crow named S.T., who sets out to save the world with his canine companion.

Beneath the veneer of provocation, Andrea Long Chu's book is surprisingly tender, aiming to care for a universal ache — the frayed knot of selfhood, desire and power.

There was a time when the Los Angeles neighborhood was known for silent films -- not drive-by shootings. In The Madonnas of Echo Park, debut novelist Brando Skyhorse revisits his old neighborhood -- and residents who still live there say his words hit home.

Jace Clayton, best known for his work as DJ /rupture, speaks with NPR's Audie Cornish about his first book, Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture.

Craig Brown's new biography of Queen Elizabeth's glamorous and scandalous younger sister documents "a life which sort of went off the rails," he says.

With a gallon of gasoline costing $3 in much of America, many consumers wonder how the price is broken down, from oil fields, refineries, suppliers and the pump. Robert Siegel talks with Jim Haddock, vice president for retail sales of Gas America, which owns about 80 service stations and is based in Greenfield, Ind. Haddock talks about how much money the service stations are making as gas prices continue to rise.

New York chef David Chang talks about pork buns, the unexpected hit of his noodle shop, Motofuku. Chang, who has released a cookbook by the same name, discusses how easy it is to make the delectable pork buns.

Some problems with voting machines and other issues have come up as voters turn out for the presidential election.

Even as NPR editor Malaka Gharib makes light of herself in her high-spirited graphical memoir, her wisdom about the power and limits of racial identity is evident in the way she draws.

Right-wing Fox host Mark Levin conducts no interviews and offers no original research in his book; it is little more than a free gift with purchase: People are instead buying his message to the media.