Deepak Singh moved from India to the U.S. with an advanced degree – so he was surprised when he was only able to land a low-paying job. He joins us to talk about his struggle to adapt to his new life in America – and about how his American co-workers also found it difficult to get by – which he writes about in “How May I Help You?: An Immigrant’s Journey From MBA to Minimum Wage” (University of California Press).

In 1845, explorer John Franklin led an expedition from England to discover the Northwest Passage. Both ships were lost in the Arctic ice, leading to a decades-long search for the wreckage. Paul Watson joins us to talk about how marine science mixed with Inuit folklore lead to the discovery, which he writes about in “Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition” (W.W. Norton and Co.). He’s in town for DMA Arts & Letters Live! Tuesday night at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Political satirist P.J. O’Rourke is known nationwide as a diehard Republican. So even he was surprised when he endorsed Hillary Clinton during the presidential election. He joins us to talk about a top-to-bottom rethinking of how we as a country choose our leaders, which he writes about in “How the Hell Did This Happen?: The Election of 2016” (Atlantic Monthly Press).

Grand buildings provide frozen moments that help us to understand the life and times of the people who built them. And when these structures are destroyed, so, too, is part of our collective history. James Crawford joins us to talk about how the Tower of Babel, the Library of Alexandria and other important buildings were used and abused, which he writes about in “Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History’s Greatest Buildings” (Picador).

Public radio listeners know Amy Dickinson has a regular panelists on “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” The popular advice columnist joins us to talk about how experiences in her own life have helped her to guide readers through relationships, parenting and even death. Her new book is called “Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home” (Hachette).

As the United States ramps up its efforts to deport people in the country without permission, Reynosa is taking the brunt of that activity. The U.S. regularly sends busloads of undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans to the Mexican border city, where those people often interact with others gearing up to cross the borders themselves. NPR’s John Burnett has spent time recently in the city, and he joins us to talk about what life is like there.

People born intersex have reproductive organs, hormones and chromosomal patterns that aren’t distinctly male or female. Hida Viloria was born in that space between genders, the beginning of a decades-long quest to understand what it’s like to be both male and female. Hida joins us to talk about that journey, the subject of “Born Both: An Intersex Life” (Hachette).

Twenty-five years ago, Krissi Caldwell and her boyfriend, Bobby Gonzales, shot Krissi’s mother, Roz, to death. Her father, Buz, survived the attempt on his life and pushed for the killers to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Jennifer Emily recently revisited the story for The Dallas Morning News, finding a family has made peace with that awful night. She joins us to talk about how a father found a way to forgiveness – and about how the case could change the way we think about prosecuting young offenders.

The smartphone is one of the most useful creations of the last decade. For many of us, though, our use of them borders on compulsion. Adam Alter, a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, joins us to talk about how the makers of smartphones and other products have cracked the code of behavioral addiction – and how we can gain control of our impulses. His new book is called “Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technologies and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked” (Penguin Press).

Between Britain’s “Brexit” and President Trump’s “America First” philosophy, two of the world’s strongest allies have moved toward a position of nationalism. Richard Haass, president of the non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations, joins us to make the case for globalism and the important role the U.S. plays in keeping the world running smoothly. His new book is called “A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order” (Penguin Press).