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Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren is an expert on bankruptcy and is an outspoken critic of consumer lenders. Warren is also the author of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke.

Photographer Mark Edward Harris traveled to North Korea for the mass gymnastic games and gathered vivid snapshots throughout the country. His photographs are collected in a new book, Inside North Korea.

A cooking magazine's family-recipe contest brought in 3,000 entries. Public television cooking host Chris Kimball says many had catchy names like "Naked Ladies with Their Legs Crossed," along with equally memorable back-stories.

Journalist George Packer's article in the March 26 issue of The New Yorker magazine is called "Betrayed: The Iraqis Who Trusted America the Most." He reports that men employed by Americans as interpreters, construction workers, drivers and office workers are now being marked for death.

Weapons expert Joseph Cirincione's new book is Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons. He talks about how nuclear threats will evolve in coming years.

Record producer Joe Boyd has worked with Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Richard and Linda Thompson, R.E.M. and many other musical acts. He has a new memoir, called White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s.

Celebrated Japanese crime writer Natsuo Kirino made her American debut in 2005, when the novel Out was translated into English, and became a finalist for an Edgar award. Another Kirino novel, Grotesque, has just been translated into English.

Tom DeLay, the former House Republican chief, defends his and the GOP's leadership during its 12 years of power in Congress and says he will continue to fight charges that he misused campaign money.

Blackwater USA is a secretive private army based in North Carolina with a sole owner: Erik Prince, a right-wing Christian multimillionaire. Jeremy Scahill talks about his book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.

Journalist P. J. O'Rourke says it's good to be from nowhere... like Toledo, Ohio. That's his hometown. He shares his thoughts about the city. His commentary was published in full form in the book, Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio.