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The British intervened three times in Afghanistan in the 80 years up to 1919. It was the western frontier of their empire, the gateway to their most precious possession, India. They wanted to keep the Russians out. The new exhibition at the National Army Museum in London has relevance today.

Novelist Nicole Krauss explains how not knowing is an integral part of her writing process. She says her doubt-ridden characters in Great House are reflections of her own approach to fiction; she doesn't know what's going to happen — until it does.

Novelist Nicole Krauss artfully weaves disparate stories of love and loss into a devastating examination of the weight of memory on those left behind. Four narrators are connected by an antique desk separated from its original owner during the Holocaust.

Recently Morning Edition aired the story of an Oregon company with a strong smell. Mountain Rose Herbs is the nation's second-largest distributor of organic dried herbs. The aroma of hundreds of botanicals permeates just about everything. It inspired the show's staff to go to Facebook and Twitter to ask listeners about jobs they've had, where they brought the smell of work home with them.

Bob Mondello looks at a new documentary about the economic meltdown and examines where it falls in a spectrum of current fact-based films.

For his 22nd novel, celebrated author and former intelligence officer John le Carre found inspiration in a real Russian criminal. Our Kind Of Traitor details the shady activities of a crime lord named Dima operating in Moscow's underworld of dirty money.

All aboard, armchair travelers! In Book Lust to Go, our go-to librarian shares her favorite accounts of intrepid exploration and fiction from faraway lands.

In his new novel, Philip Roth sets a fictional yet plausible polio outbreak in his New Jersey hometown. Set in 1944, Nemesis describes the fear that plagued the country in the years before the vaccine was developed.

The Pew Hispanic Center survey finds 65 percent of Latinos favor the Democratic candidate in their local congressional district. But only half of Latino registered voters say they are certain to vote in next month's midterm elections.

Bill Bryson is known for exploring far-flung places, but he found inspiration for his most recent book after a hike through his own old, Victorian house in England. At Home: A Short History of Private Life explores the history of domesticity — from making beds, to the long history of hallways.