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This week's new titles include memoir, comics journalism and speculative fiction, horror and humor. Susan Orlean tells her own story in Joyride, and Pulitzer-winner Adam Johnson has a new novel.

Four states are strengthening rules that require home sellers and landlords to disclose information about whether a home has flooded in the past, or is likely to flood in the future.

Does offshore wind harm or help national security? NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Joseph Majkut of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The hazardous smoke that blanketed the Midwest and East Coast last week has largely cleared. But the massive wildfires in eastern Canada that generated the smoke are still very much alive.

Unusually high winds and dry conditions are driving the Palisades Fire in Southern California. More than 30,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders.

California's move to end the sale of new gas-powered cars could prove a seminal moment in the shift to zero-emission cars — but getting there won't be easy.

On Saturday, the UNGA celebrated its 80th birthday in London. Speakers including U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres addressed global uncertainty during the second term of President Trump.

The Carolinas' recovery from Hurricane Florence is already raising difficult questions about repeated flooding.

TheMoneyball author is writing a series of articles for Vanity Fair about President Trump's picks to lead federal agencies — and the consequences of those appointments.

A team of archaeologists from Brigham Young University has uncovered an Egyptian cemetery that may have upwards of 1 million graves. NPR's Scott Simon explains they were commoners — not pharaohs.