To expose corruption within the Kremlin, investment broker Bill Browder became a writer with his book

Red Notice, which explores how risky it is to be on the wrong side of the mighty Putin in contemporary Russia. While penning such an expose might be a dangerous activity, the author explains why not doing so might be even more lethal.

Does Seattle really deserve its moniker: City of Rain? What was it like to visit Cherrapunji, India, the rainiest place in the world? The precipitation aficionado who channeled her love for her subject into a book titled, you guessed it, Rain, answers these questions and shares what the changing rain patterns mean for global climate, in a lively interview.

Beryl Markham was a British woman who lived life on her own terms in colonial Kenya. The author of

The Paris Wife shares what fascinated her about her subject, including one dramatic flight across the Atlantic that captured everyone's attention; and what it was like to set a story in Kenya, the place where people of the empire escaped to fly free of strait-laced British societal conventions.

Writing about autism when your sibling was institutionalized for it might feel like closure. Author Eli Gottlieb discusses if that was indeed the case as he worked on Best Boy, a novel about an autistic boy, and the repercussions of his condition on those closest to him, and what life at a therapeutic center is like through the eyes of one family.