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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Truman Lam, whose family owns New York City's largest Chinese restaurant about why they decided to close their doors in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Walmart is selling more tops than bottoms, due to an increase in teleworking during the coronavirus pandemic. And from the waist down? Well, apparently, it's a free-for-all.

Irby's new essay collection is Wow, No Thank You. She says it was inspired by moving from Chicago to Kalamazoo and feeling like a fish out of water, with no friends and a strange house.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with New York Times Magazine art critic Jerry Saltz about his new book "How to be an Artist."

NPR's Scott Simon looks back on the joys of working in an office as he — and millions of Americans — are consigned to working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

Twila Boyd, a pharmacist in South Charleston, Ohio, explains what it's like to treat patients in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.

Little did actor Don Cheadle know that markets would be falling through the floor just as he was appearing in Season Two of Showtime's Black Monday.

In her first novel since the hit pandemic tale Station Eleven, Mandel introduces a troubled brother and sister who get involved with a crooked hotel magnate, changing their lives in unexpected ways.

With so many people staying home together right now, we talk with advice columnist Amy Dickinson about best practices for getting along when you really can't get away from each other.

Lisa Heledd Jones collects audio memos and journals from people around the world to record how they're living through the coronavirus crisis.

Author Amir Ahmadi Arian talks about his new novel, a portrait of an Iranian bus driver who is arrested during a strike and tortured and forced to confess in prison.

Aging expert Melissa Batchelor gives advice for speaking to the elderly about coronavirus.

Norooz, which means "new day," is meant to be a holiday of hope and celebration. But Iran has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19. Foreign policy analyst Ali Ahmadi, political analyst explains.

Governors in California, Illinois and several other states have also asked residents to stay at home. NPR's Hansi Lo Wang give us the latest from New York.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on how people who die from complications related to COVID-19 might spend their last days isolated and alone.

New Zealand musician Nadia Reid talks about how homesickness fueled the songs on her latest album, Out of My Province.

To mark National Cereal Day, we take a look at the latest batch of cereal flavors — from candy-flavored puffs of color to ones that are supposed to taste like toaster pastries.

With Super Tuesday in the rearview mirror, we look to what's to come on Big Tuesday and how the coronavirus will affect the presidential election.

Scientists are racing to create a vaccine to protect people against the new strain of the coronavirus. But while researchers are making fast progress, a vaccine is probably more than a year away.

As India is facing major tensions over a new law Muslims say discriminates against them, NRP's Scott Simon notes the country's history of rich religious diversity.