Environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb says in nature, the weaker animals are usually the ones killed by predators. That changes when cars are involved: "Roadkill is not only eliminating animals, it's in many cases eliminating those healthy animals that populations need to remain strong," Devon OpdenDries/Getty Images hide caption
In The Enchanted Symphony, a young boy named Piccolino harnesses the power of art, nature and community. Illustrations © 2023 Elly MacKay hide caption
Leslie Jones says she was 19 when Jamie Foxx told her she needed to live life — get hired, get fired, fall in love — in order to be truly funny. Jen Rosenstein/HGBUSA hide caption
Matthew McConaughey hopes his new book, Just Because, will spark thoughtful conversations among families and connect people of all generations. Penguin Random House hide caption
Author Lauren Groff's new book, The Vaster Wilds, is a tight and tense novel that takes place in 1610 Jamestown. Elizabeth Gillis/NPR hide caption
Ghassan Zeineddine, author of the short story collection, Dearborn. Austin Thomason/UM Photography hide caption
Adeena Sussman, Jewish culinary guru and author of the new cookbook Shabbat, at the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv on Friday morning, Sept. 1, 2023. Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for NPR hide caption
"History is something we participate in together," says author Zadie Smith. "We are all involved in history, and all have something to gain from understanding what happened – exactly what happened." Her new novel, The Fraud, is based on real events. Ben Bailey-Smith/Penguin Random House hide caption
Alice Carrière has written a new memoir called Everything/Nothing/Someone. Sebastian Piras hide caption
Vanessa Zoltan's memoir is all about how she learned to read literature like sacred texts. TarcherPerigree/Penguin Random House hide caption
A woman passes by a mural of the rapper Biggie Smalls on a wall in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Drew Gilpin Faust served as president of Harvard from 2007 until 2018. She is currently the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor. Stephanie Mitchell/MacMillan hide caption
"Every decade of my life has been better than the one beforehand," says R. Eric Thomas. Penguin Random House hide caption
Author Pidgeon Pagonis was raised a girl but was born with both female and male sexual organs. They tell their story of discovering who they really in a memoir released August 15, 2023. Sarah Joyce/Courtesy of TOPPLE/Little A hide caption
Reprinted from EMILE AND THE FIELD. Copyright © 2022 by Kevin Young. Illustrations copyright © 2022 by Chioma Ebinama Make Me a World, an imprint of Random House Children's Books hide caption
Leland has been an editor at the literary magazine The Believer since its inception in 2003. Gregory Halpern/Penguin Random House hide caption