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Just in time for spring training, Emily Nemens, editor of the Paris Review, tells NPR's Scott Simon about her new novel. It's a look at preseason baseball's strivers and dreamers, on-field and off.

They charge that news of a new pneumonialike illlness was kept from the public for weeks — and that social media accounts are being shut down if certain types of comments are made.

"This is a church, a holy place. You can't mix it with such a shameful assault on the Jews," plaintiff Michael Düllmann says of the medieval work portraying Jews with a pig.

Aside from times of genuine national crisis, it is hard to recall a week with as many events of political significance as the one we have all just witnessed.

We'll ask the Pulitzer prize winner three questions about warnings — including some odd travel guidance, a weird weather heads up, and an unexpected language advisory.

All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Our panelists read three stories about someone who came up with something interesting to do exactly at 4 p.m. on a Sunday, only one of which is true.

Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news: "Shadow over Iowa," "King of the Hill" and "Open Concept Kitchen."

Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert's documentary centers on a Chinese-run factory in Ohio. Justin Chang reviews Beanpole. Eilene Zimmerman writes about her ex-husband's drug-related death in Smacked.

As the number of fatalities in mainland China rises above 800, Beijing has granted approval to a team of international health experts to travel to China to investigate the virus.