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Something about Robert Cormier's I Am the Cheese, made author Ben Marcus worry. It was the first time he had encountered an unreliable narrator — and he found it disconcerting. Do you have a favorite narrator who doesn't quite tell the truth? Tell us who in the comments.

Ben Lerner's new novel is about a writer who gets an advance for a second work of fiction, is diagnosed with an aortic heart valve problem and agrees to be the sperm donor for a close friend.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to retired Gen. Ben Hodges about how the Russian assault in eastern Ukraine will be different from Russian President Putin's initial plan to take Kiev at the end of February.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ben Judah, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, about British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who will likely succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.

Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics, along with economists Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for their work on bank runs and how to prevent them.

Nine members of Hutaree, a Christian militia group in Michigan, were indicted on sedition and weapons charges in connection with an alleged plot to murder law enforcement officers in hopes of setting off an anti-government uprising. Ben Schmitt, of the Detroit Free Press, says those arrested are due in court on Wednesday.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with reporter Ben Westhoff, author of Fentanyl, Inc., about President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping's agreement to curb fentanyl precursor chemical production in China.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Ben Raanan, whose sister and stepmother had been taken hostage by Hamas in Israel earlier this month and freed Friday.

This week, the Arizona State Supreme Court ordered the enforcement of a law from 1864 banning nearly all abortions. That's led both presidential campaigns to focus on the battleground state.

The American Dialect Society is about to make a major decision: What will be the Word of the Year for 2012? Since we only live once, will it be YOLO? Or perhaps superstorm, in memory of Hurricane Sandy? Language columnist Ben Zimmer says there's no clear front-runner.