On Point: Books

The wizard of pop. From "Raindrops" to "Walk On By." Burt Bacharach joins us with his new memoir of a life in music.

The mother of all diversity: nature. Her most fantastic creatures and how they're faring now.

A new book says rationing--of food, energy and more--is in our future. We hear the case, and the pushback.

"The Great Gatsby" is back. On the big screen. We'll revisit the tale, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Leonardo DiCaprio.

Bees disappearing. Cicadas coming out. A new generation of scientists coming up. We'll talk with super-biologist E.O. Wilson about our future and nature.

Here comes the big travel season. We look at how global tourism is changing the world.

Poems about her divorce just won Sharon Olds a Pulitzer Prize. She joins us.

How humans think. The human brain as an analogy machine.

Inside North Korea. We talk with the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of "The Orphan Master's Son."

Bestselling author Isabel Allende's novel of a Chilean grandmother saving a granddaughter who's down and out in Las Vegas.

Washington Post editor Fred Hiatt's latest novel tells the fictional tale of a girl's search for her missing father in China. We'll talk with him and the real woman behind the story.

"The Mortal Sea." A ship's captain turned scholar tracks our impact on the oceans through time.

Ronald Reagan budget director David Stockman says crony capitalism has left the U.S. economy in giant trouble. He's with us.

What happy families do right, from telling the family story to creating healthy relationships across generations.

Never mind future shock. Douglas Rushkoff says we're suffering "present shock." The tyranny of the digital, always-on "now."