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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.

Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott, 77, has spent a lifetime imbibing the rhythms of his native St. Lucia. He recently published Selected Poems, a compilation of his poems from 1962 to 2004.

Prohibition was meant to stop the sale of liquor, but it didn't. In New York City, which had as many as 32,000 speakeasies, the policy's failure was flagrant. In his new book, Dry Manhattan, Michael A. Lerner examines what happened.

When a doctor misdiagnoses a patient's maladies, the results can be fatal. But rather than a technical mix-up, such flubs often are due to errors in thinking by the physician, Harvard's Dr. Jerome Groopman says.

A Columbia University sociologist gives an inside view of informal economies which are central to life in the inner city. It's not just drug dealing and loan sharking that's off the books — it's child care, hair braiding, oil changes and house cleaning.

The Other Side of You is a new novel by Salley Vickers.

Dr. Jerome Groopman, a staff writer at The New Yorker, has written a book about how doctors make decisions regarding their patients. It's called How Doctors Think.