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The illustrated children's book Guji Guji is a modern-day ugly duckling story with a reptilian twist: the title character is a crocodile raised among a family of ducks. Daniel Pinkwater and NPR's Scott Simon read from the book.

Alan Cheuse reviews Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, a novel narrated by a Christian minister as he nears death. Cheuse calls it a "beautifully ruminative novel."

In his new novel about a global-warming information conspiracy, Michael Crichton gives us a 600-page "page-burner" bolstered by footnotes, charts and graphs. Reviewer Alan Cheuse reviews State of Fear.

The festival's first full edition in two years — and its first since the death of co-founder George Wein — saw dynamic performances from Newport veterans alongside glowing debuts from newcomers.

Musician Jeremiah Lockwood hopes to introduce the world to a new music scene bubbling in Brooklyn.

We offer an appreciation of Will Eisner, creator of The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. New York's Museum of Comic Art is opening an Eisner retrospective.

Tash Aw's The Harmony Silk Factory chronicles the rise and fall of a Chinese businessman, told from the point of view of three narrators.

Provocative French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre was born 100 years ago Tuesday. Frank Browning explores Sartre's life and work, which still inspire both admiration and anger.

Two writers describe how their lives have been shaped: Kim Ponders was an Air Force pilot during the first Gulf War; and Nicole Lea Helget grew up on a turbulent Minnesota farm in the 1980s.

Gregory Maguire has returned to Oz for another look at the workings of good and evil in the Emerald City. The author tells Liane Hansen about Son of a Witch, the sequel to his 1995 best-seller Wicked.