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Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She talks about Vice President Dick Cheney and Halliburton, the company where Cheney served as chief executive for five years. Halliburton is the world's largest oil-and-gas-services company, and is now the biggest private contractor for American forces in Iraq. Mayer's article "Contract Sport: What Did the Vice-President do for Halliburton?" is in the current issue of the magazine (Feb. 16 and Feb. 23 issues).

Author Curtis Sittenfeld talks about her new book Entitled, and gets quizzed on the many differences (AND similarities!) between Pride and Prejudice and E. L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey.

Jane Lynch tells David Greene that her career got a giant boost from a Frosted Flakes commercial, and her personal life benefited enormously from a letter she wrote and thought she might never choose to send.

As the classic novel celebrates its bicentennial, Paula Byrne's The Real Jane Austen examines some of the key objects in Austen's life and how they reveal a much more cosmopolitan awareness of the world than is commonly credited to her.

Thousands of species go extinct every year, but famed biologist Jane Goodall says she refuses to give in to despair. Her latest book is Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink.

President Trump lashed out on Twitter against the Koch political machine, in what New Yorker writer Jane Mayer calls the latest clash of billionaires. She talks with NPR's Rachel Martin.

You've heard of the breakup album. But what about the "stay together" album? The Nashville-based songwriter's stories of mutual care and openness are essential listening.

Actress Jane Fonda is back on stage as a musicologist out to solve a musical mystery in the play 33 Variations. Fonda talks about the role and explains why she's "smitten" with Beethoven.

The world-famous primatologist discusses her new book, which is back on shelves after some controversy.

In 1969, a young woman was found stabbed to death in Harlan, Kentucky, and buried without a name.