Shelf Life

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen looks back at the moments that influenced his thinking in his new memoir, "Home in the World."

"Hail Mary" tells the story of the pioneering National Women’s Football League, which found it hard to compete for attention with men’s sports.

In this book excerpt, Priya Fielding-Singh discusses how inequality manifests in how Americans eat.

“Our health is all interconnected and inextricable from the conditions in which we live,” says epidemiologist Dr. Sandro Galea.

An excerpt from “The Loneliest Americans,” a new book that explores Asian American identity by Jay Caspian Kang.

In his latest book, globalization scholar Parag Khanna looks at how and why our lives may become a lot more mobile in the decades to come.

In his new book, journalist Robin Wigglesworth looks at the cast of characters who kickstarted the index fund and how it's grown into the trillion-dollar business it is today.

In an excerpt from her new memoir, the former PepsiCo leader talks about “care” infrastructure and creating transformational change.

An excerpt from “Machiavelli for Women,” a new book by NPR’s Stacey Vanek Smith.

Read an excerpt from a new book by emergency room physician and former Baltimore Health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen.