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Husband and wife team Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball co-starred in I Love Lucy from 1951 until 1957. AP hide caption
Jessica Slice with her two children. Liz Cooper hide caption
Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a champion of local African languages. Shawn Miller/Library of Congress hide caption
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kenyan literary giant who fought colonialism, dies at 87
British performers, writers and activists protest Israel's actions in Gaza outside the gates of Downing Street on May 21, 2025. Leon Neal/Getty Images hide caption
Xi Jinping, left, with his father Xi Zhongxun in 1958. History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption
Two main treatment options for bipolar disorder include medication, like the mood stabilizer lithium, and therapy. woocat/Getty Images hide caption
One researcher shares her experience studying and living with bipolar disorder
Susan Brownmiller poses with her book in New York, Oct. 18, 1975. Suzanne Vlamis/AP hide caption
Shira Perlmutter, register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, was appointed to the position by the Librarian of Congress in 2020. Mariam Zuhaib/AP hide caption
Outside of book blurbs, social media is the number one way customers decide what book to read. Islenia Mil for NPR hide caption
Author Banu Mushtaq (left) and translator Deepa Bhasthi won this year's International Booker Prize, for the book Heart Lamp. Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images hide caption
A syndicated, AI-generated summer reading list featuring fake books by real authors was published in major newspapers this week. Above, a reader enjoys the sunshine in Hyde Park in London in 2009. Oli Scarff/Getty Images hide caption
Joe Biden attends a roundtable session at the G7 world leaders summit in Italy, June 13, 2024. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Pool/Associated Press hide caption
In 'Original Sin,' Jake Tapper describes a 'cover-up' of Joe Biden's decline
Axios reporter Alex Thompson (left) and CNN's Jake Tapper during an interview at NPR on Thursday. Bronson Arcuri/NPR & Grace Raver/NPR hide caption
This new book explores how Biden's inner circle kept his mental decline from voters
'The Emperor of Gladness' is a beautiful novel about hard work and found family
Novelist Salman Rushdie promotes the German-language edition of his book Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder in Berlin on May 16, 2024. In the book, Rushdie confronts the 2022 attack that left him blind in one eye. Sean Gallup/Getty Images hide caption