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Philip Pullman’s new novel follows ‘The Golden Compass’ heroine into young adulthood
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been more than 30 years since Philip Pullman began the His Dark Materials series – and now, that story is coming to a close. Pullman’s late...
Revisiting ‘The Joy Luck Club’
08 Nov 2025
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The stories of mothers and daughters trying to connect with each other, across time, space and generations – this is the centerpiece of Amy Tan’s ...
Reese Witherspoon, Harlan Coben and Chris Kraus are out with new crime thrillers
07 Nov 2025
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Today’s episode features two new crime thrillers written by big names. First, Harlan Coben says he stopped in his tracks when Reese Witherspoon aske...
These previously unpublished Harper Lee stories were discovered in her NYC apartment
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After Harper Lee’s death in 2016, previously unpublished writing was discovered in her New York City apartment. The Land of Sweet Forever includes e...
In 'The Eleventh Hour,' Salman Rushdie writes about morality, revenge and ghosts
05 Nov 2025
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Salman Rushdie lived for decades under a death sentence and survived a knife attack three years ago. His latest book The Eleventh Hour is his first wo...
Julian Brave Noisecat’s 'We Survived the Night' is part memoir, part Native history
04 Nov 2025
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As a newborn, Ed Archie NoiseCat was found in an incinerator at a Catholic-run Indian boarding school. In a new book We Survived the Night, his son, J...
Karine Jean-Pierre’s new memoir 'Independent' explains why she left the Democrats
03 Nov 2025
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For almost three years, Karine Jean-Pierre was White House press secretary for the Biden-Harris administration. Her new memoir, Independent, explains ...
Revisiting Charles Portis’ True Grit
01 Nov 2025
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Westerns are seemingly back in the culture. With the popularity of the television series Yellowstone and musical artists like Beyoncé’s Cowboy Cart...
Stephen King on 'The Shining' sequel and the novel he co-authored with his son
31 Oct 2025
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In today’s episode, "King of Horror" Stephen King reflects on his sobriety, the sequel to The Shining and a novel he co-wrote with his son. First, T...
In 'The Hacienda,' the protagonist is trapped in a haunted house – and her marriage
30 Oct 2025
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After Mexico’s war for independence, a new bride finds herself alone in a haunted house surrounded by people who don't believe her. Isabel Cañas' d...
Shirley Jackson’s biographer on the writer’s ability to find evil in the ordinary
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With stories like “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson was one of the great horror authors of the 20th century. In 2012, ...
Princeton professor Susan Wolfson on why we love 'Frankenstein' two centuries later
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, written in 1818, permeated our cultural imagination in a way few stories have. With a new film adaptation directed by G...
'Interview with the Vampire' author Anne Rice takes NPR on a tour of her haunted home
27 Oct 2025
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Novelist Anne Rice was known for her supernatural tales about vampires, witches, and ghosts. In 1976, she gained notoriety for Interview with the Vamp...
Revisiting Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re watching or reading… a lot about vampires? With the 20th anniversary of the Twilight book series upon us, ...
'Paper Girl' and 'Joyride' are memoirs by journalists who get close to their subjects
24 Oct 2025
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Today’s episode features new memoirs by journalists who aren’t afraid to connect deeply with their subjects. First, in Paper Girl, Beth Macy trave...
This Palestinian journalist kept a diary as Israeli forces invaded – now it’s a book
23 Oct 2025
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As Israeli forces invaded Gaza in 2023, Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad kept a diary. Her writing is a record of the 45 days she spent reporting...
A new James Baldwin biography asks how the writer’s lovers might’ve shaped him
22 Oct 2025
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The scholar Nicholas Boggs has a new perspective on James Baldwin. The new biography Baldwin: A Love Story considers how the writer and Civil Rights l...
Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir recounts abuse by Epstein, Maxwell and others
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode centers an important voice in the still-unfolding story of Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia Roberts Giuffre survived abuse at the hands of ...
Ken Liu’s latest novel ‘All That We See or Seem’ is speculative fiction about AI
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Liu is a big name in science fiction. His latest novel All That We See or Seem takes place in a world that’s not too different from ours. But in...
Books We’ve Loved: Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, a blueprint to the modern romance
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This year, readers around the world are celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. On the inaugural episode of Books We’ve Loved, hosts Andrew Limb...
Cookbooks 'House of Nanking' and 'Boustany' honor rich family legacies through food
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode features two new cookbooks that solidify family legacies through food. First, NPR’s Ailsa Chang joins Peter and Kathy Fang for a m...
'I Am You' fictionalizes the story of a Dutch Golden Age painter and her maid
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dutch Golden Age painter Maria van Oosterwijck and her assistant, Gerta Pieters, lived side by side in 17th century Amsterdam, Pieters having started ...
'The Persian' is a spy thriller written by former CIA analyst David McCloskey
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David McCloskey keeps writing spy thrillers – and the plots keep coming true. In the opening of his latest novel The Persian, Israel has just launch...
In her new memoir, Jeannie Vanasco gets 'A Silent Treatment' from her mom
14 Oct 2025
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Jeannie Vanasco’s memoir A Silent Treatment is about the period her mother spent living in the basement apartment of Vanasco’s home. Sometimes, Va...
'Pick a Color' is a novel that takes place over a single day at a nail salon
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ning is the manager of a nail salon where all of the workers wear a nametag with the same name – Susan. Pick A Color takes place over a single day a...
Introducing: Books We've Loved
11 Oct 2025
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Welcome to Books We've Loved, a new limited series from Book of The Day. Every episode, we will dig into some of our favorite books, to make the case ...
These new mystery novels are 'whodunits' that might as well be called 'whydunits'
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode features two mystery novels with special twists. First, The Killer Question is a story told via emails, WhatsApp messages and texts....
In 'Dream School,' Jeff Selingo wants parents to rethink what makes a ‘good’ college
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past 20 years, the number of college applications filed to top schools has exploded. And while many American colleges accept most applicants,...
For her latest novel, Patricia Lockwood says she wanted to write about confusion
08 Oct 2025
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In Patricia Lockwood’s latest novel, the protagonist is an author named Patricia. Will There Ever Be Another You documents a four-year period of dis...
Mariana Enriquez’s new book connects her interest in cemeteries with Argentina’s past
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cemeteries are not everyone’s idea of fun, but they’re a source of fascination for author Mariana Enriquez. Her new nonfiction book Somebody Is Wa...
'For the Sun After Long Nights' is a history of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three years ago, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Jina Amini was fatally beaten by Iran’s morality police. She’d been arrested for not foll...
Two new history books use the past to explain what’s important now
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two new history books make a strong case for why learning about the past is critical to understanding the world today. First, History Matters is a pos...
'F*** Approval, You Don’t Need It!' makes the case against ‘people pleasers’
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book, F*** Approval, You Don’t Need It!, therapist Lizzie Moult says people who seek the approval of others are doing a great disservice ...
Angela Flournoy’s 'The Wilderness' focuses on a Black, female ‘chosen family’
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The group of friends at the center of Angela Flournoy’s new novel, The Wilderness, are figuring out how to navigate life as they enter middle age. N...
Former senator Joe Manchin makes the case for the middle in the memoir 'Dead Center'
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former West Virginia senator Joseph Manchin III was a gadfly in the ear of his own Democratic party for many years, and a sometime Republican ally. Ma...
Ian McEwan’s latest novel ‘What We Can Know’ is science fiction without the science
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At 77, the Booker Prize-winning British novelist Ian McEwan shows no signs of slowing down. His new novel, What We Can Know, is set in Great Britain i...
‘Peacemaker’ and ‘Tomorrow Is Yesterday’ are personal histories of diplomacy
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two new books dive into the details of diplomacy. First, in the 1960s U Thant became the first non-Western secretary-general of the United Nations. No...
Ken Jaworowski’s new crime novel ‘What About the Bodies’ has a surprising tender side
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Jaworowski is out with a new crime novel with a surprising tender side. What About the Bodies is set in a fictional town past its glory days with ...
‘Dark Renaissance’ historian on how Christopher Marlowe paved the way for Shakespeare
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is known as Shakespeare’s greatest rival. But in his new book Dark Renaissance, historian Stephen Gre...
‘Beyond Fast’ chronicles one coach’s unlikely revolution in high school cross-country
23 Sep 2025
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When Sean Brosnan started coaching the Newbury Park High School cross-country team, the school hadn't qualified for a state championship in 25 years. ...
In his new novel ‘The Secret of Secrets,’ Dan Brown takes on human consciousness
22 Sep 2025
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Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, is out with his sixth book starring fictional Harvard professor Robert Langdon. In The S...
‘Long Way Down’ and ‘The Hate U Give’ are modern classics about gun violence
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The final episode in our Back to School series focuses on two contemporary books that tell stories about gun violence. First, Jason Reynolds’ 2017 n...
What Toni Morrison learned from revisiting five of her most-read novels
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Arguably, no high school reading list is complete without one of Toni Morrison’s books. In today’s episode, we look back at a 2004 conversation be...
Sandra Cisneros’ ‘The House on Mango Street’ was born from a feeling of displacement
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street is a series of vignettes drawn from the experiences of a Mexican-American girl living in Chicago. Since i...
In her translation of ‘The Odyssey,’ Emily Wilson aimed for ‘a crystalline clarity’
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, Emily Wilson became the first woman to translate Homer’s The Odyssey into English – more than three millennia after the epic’s inceptio...
Jhumpa Lahiri says the phrase ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ came to her in grad school
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Back to School week at NPR’s Book of the Day, which means we’re looking back at interviews with authors who may have shown up on your high ...
‘2024’ and ‘From the Clinics to the Capitol’ dissect opposing political movements
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode features two books that dissect very different case studies in politics: Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign and the anti-abortio...
In Meg Medina’s new young adult novel, a 13-year-old girl becomes a sea ghost
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meg Medina’s new young adult novel begins with a fall: Graciela, a 13-year-old-girl, is blown off a cliff and sucked into the bottom of the sea. A c...
‘Misbehaving at the Crossroads’ is a lesson in the complexity of reconciliation
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In her first nonfiction book Misbehaving at the Crossroads, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers weaves together history, political commentary and poetry that cent...
In Rabih Alameddine’s new novel, a mother and son share a tiny Beirut apartment
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Raja teaches philosophy to high schoolers and shares an apartment with his 82-year-old mother, Zalfa. Rabih Alameddine explores their relationship –...
Tamara Yajia’s memoir recounts a chaotic upbringing between the U.S. and Argentina
08 Sep 2025
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Tamara Yajia’s memoir Cry for Me, Argentina describes a chaotic upbringing between Argentine and American cultures. A big focus of the memoir is her...
‘Papilio’ and ‘Chooch Helped’ are children’s books brought to life by friendship
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two children’s books were brought to life by close collaborations, one between longtime friends and another that began with a chance encounter. Firs...
In ‘The Sunflower Boys,’ a 12-year-old boy comes of age during war in Ukraine
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artem is a 12-year-old Ukranian boy who likes to spend summer days on his grandfather’s sunflower farm swimming with his younger brother, Yuri. But ...
‘Friends with Words’ is a book about language, from word origins to regional dialects
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For Martha Barnette, griping about grammatical pet peeves is one of the least interesting ways to talk about language. Instead, the co-host of the rad...
Kate Riley’s novel ‘Ruth’ was inspired by her year in an insular religious community
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Author Kate Riley says her book Ruth was partly based on her year spent living in an insular religious community. The debut novel explores what it’s...
In his memoir, poet Raymond Antrobus writes of ‘deaf gain’ instead of hearing loss
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When poet Raymond Antrobus was 6 years old, he learned he was deaf. His new memoir The Quiet Ear describes living in a world of in-betweenness, stradd...
‘Your Favorite Scary Movie’ and ‘Ready for My Close-Up’ are histories of iconic films
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley Cullins and David Lubin are out with new books that delve into the histories of iconic films. First, in 1996, the character Ghostface was intro...
Eighty years after Hiroshima, a new book narrates the history of the atomic bomb
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been 80 years since the United States detonated atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in more than 200,000 deaths. Garrett Graff’...
In the novel ‘Loved One,’ an ambiguous friendship is further complicated by loss
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aisha Muharrar’s debut novel Loved One is about a woman’s effort to understand her relationship with a friend who’s recently died. Julia had bee...
‘Dinner with King Tut’ follows experimental archaeologists as they recreate the past
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To write his latest book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean joined a group of experimental archaeologists who learn by doing. These researchers aim to rec...
For her 25th book, Karin Slaughter wanted to capture life in small-town Georgia
25 Aug 2025
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Karin Slaughter’s new book opens on a hot summer night in Georgia. It’s Madison Dalrymple’s 15th birthday and she has a big night planned with h...
‘Cook Once, Eat Twice’ and ‘Accidentally on Purpose’ are new books from cooking stars
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nadiya Hussain and Kristen Kish are winners of two of the most popular cooking shows on television – and they’re both out with new books about lif...
‘Atlantic’ writer James Parker says his odes are exercises in gratitude and attention
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James Parker finds inspiration for odes in small and large things: history, America, brain farts, his flip phone, Pablo Neruda, meditation. The Atlant...
In ‘The Hounding,’ rumors swirl around five sisters living in 18th-century England
20 Aug 2025
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Author Xenobe Purvis says the premise for her new novel is based on a nugget of history. In 1700, a doctor reported that five sisters in Oxfordshire, ...
Alexis Okeowo’s ‘Blessings and Disasters’ is an ode to Alabama’s complicated history
19 Aug 2025
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Alexis Okeowo grew up in Alabama. But it wasn’t until they left for college that Okeowo realized the strong stereotypes outsiders held about their h...
‘Dwelling’ fictionalizes the American housing crisis with elements of fairy tale
18 Aug 2025
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In Emily Hunt Kivel’s new novel Dwelling, a mass eviction in New York City throws a young woman’s life into chaos. Suddenly homeless, Evie relocat...
For the authors of ‘Reading Van Gogh,’ ‘Black in Blues,’ art opened a door to meaning
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, the authors of two recently released nonfiction books search for meaning in art. First, Elizabeth Barks Cox’s Reading Van Gogh...
In ‘Human Nature,’ Kate Marvel bridges the gap between climate science and emotions
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Marvel is a climate scientist who has testified before Congress and served as lead author of the U.S. National Climate Assessment. But in her new...
Jason Mott’s new novel ‘People Like Us’ is metafiction that was almost memoir
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, Jason Mott won the National Book Award for Hell of a Book. Now, he’s out with a new novel called People Like Us, in which two Black writers...
‘Sloppy’ author Rax King says she’s inspired by writers who did their best work sober
12 Aug 2025
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Author Rax King says her new book of essays Sloppy is unified by themes of “addiction and bad habits.” King has been sober from alcohol and cocain...
A new mystery novel by Liza Tully pairs a green assistant with a seasoned detective
11 Aug 2025
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In a new murder mystery, a young woman, Olivia Blunt, is eager to impress her new boss, a no-nonsense detective named Aubrey Merritt. This intergenera...
2 new books were inspired by dark moments in Japanese and Japanese American history
08 Aug 2025
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Authors Tracy Slater and Julia Riew published two very different books last month that were inspired by a similar time in history. First, Together in ...
‘The Feather Detective’ is a biography of Roxie Layboune, forensic ornithologist
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1960, a commercial flight was struck by a flock of birds, resulting in a deadly crash. Evidence was sent to the Smithsonian, where a woman named Ro...
In Lisa Smith’s ‘Jamaica Road,’ a young girl searches for belonging in 1980s London
06 Aug 2025
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Lisa Smith’s debut novel Jamaica Road is a coming of age story and romance set in 1980s London. The story follows Daphne, a young girl born to a Jam...
‘Algospeak’ looks at algorithms' transformative impact on how we speak on and offline
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Words like "rizz" and "skibidi" didn’t exist just a few years ago, but now they’re used and understood by millions of people. In his new book, Alg...
Katie Yee's 'Maggie' approaches a tough diagnosis - and a marriage's end - with humor
04 Aug 2025
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In Katie Yee's debut novel 'Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar,' the unnamed protagonist is contending with the end of her marriage and a b...
New books by Irene Vega, Tim Weiner chronicle changes to federal agencies under Trump
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two new books add context to changes at federal agencies under the Trump administration. First, Irene Vega interviewed 90 ICE agents over a number of ...
'On Her Game' is Christine Brennan's portrait of basketball star Caitlin Clark
31 Jul 2025
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In 2024, ratings for the NCAA women's basketball final topped the men's final by 4 million viewers – and Caitlin Clark was largely responsible. Amer...
Short story collection 'Heart Lamp' is the winner of the International Booker Prize
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Heart Lamp, this year's International Booker Prize winner, is the first short story collection to receive the award. It is also the first time the pri...
In Sophie Elmhirst's 'A Marriage at Sea,' a couple tries to keep themselves afloat
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1972, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey set out from England to sail around the world. Partway through the voyage, a whale knocked a hole in their boat, l...
Through politics, fiction and her latest novel, Stacey Abrams aims to inspire action
28 Jul 2025
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Avery Keene has unraveled international conspiracies and investigated mysteries involving the Supreme Court, but now she's focused on what could be a ...
'No Sense in Wishing' and 'Hit Girls' consider the way culture shapes identity
25 Jul 2025
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Two new books explore how culture shapes our identity. First, Lawrence Burney's essay collection, No Sense in Wishing, is an appreciation of the arts ...
After 20 years, Mary Jo Bang has completed her translation of Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
24 Jul 2025
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About 20 years ago, Mary Jo Bang read a poem that inspired her to take on a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. At first, she began with just three ...
Mark Kurlansky's novel 'Cheesecake' was inspired by a recipe from ancient Rome
23 Jul 2025
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In Mark Kurlansky's novel Cheesecake, a Greek family living on Manhattan's Upper West Side sets out to follow a recipe dating back to ancient Rome. Wh...
In her new memoir, Hala Alyan searches for home amid a family history of exile
22 Jul 2025
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Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan has a personal history of exile. Over the years, the author and her relatives have been displaced from their ho...
Aisling Rawle's 'The Compound' follows characters on a semi-dystopian reality TV show
21 Jul 2025
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Aisling Rawle's The Compound explores reality television as a kind of dystopia. In the novel, a group of men and women live on a compound in the middl...
New biographies look at the careers of designers Claire McCardell and Virgil Abloh
18 Jul 2025
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Two new books look at the lives and careers of designers who revolutionized American fashion. First, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is out with Claire McC...
Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media
18 Jul 2025
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Act now to ensure public media remains free and accessible to all. Your donation will help this essential American service survive and thrive. Visit d...
'Trailblazer' is a memoir by Carol Moseley Braun, first Black woman elected to Senate
17 Jul 2025
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Carol Moseley Braun is a woman of many firsts. She was both the first Black woman and Black Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate, and the first female ...
Liane Moriarty on her novel 'Here One Moment' and on writing 'women's fiction'
16 Jul 2025
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In Liane Moriarty's Here One Moment, a woman on a flight from Tasmania to Sydney, Australia looks around at her fellow passengers and reveals how each...
'The Last Sweet Bite' is a cookbook that documents the way conflict changes cuisine
15 Jul 2025
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Michael Shaikh's The Last Sweet Bite is filled with recipes, but it's also a document that reflects the way conflict alters cuisine. The project, whic...
In Ann Patchett's latest, a mother tells her daughters about a seminal summer
14 Jul 2025
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The author Ann Patchett has talked about her decision to focus on her writing and to forgo entering the world of motherhood. But in her latest book, T...
New books ask how we can protect threatened land in the Amazon rainforest and Hawaii
11 Jul 2025
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Two new books ask how we might protect vulnerable ecosystems in the Amazon rainforest and Hawaii. First, journalist Dom Phillips was reporting in the ...
With novel 'Among Friends,' Hal Ebbott says he wanted to take friendship seriously
10 Jul 2025
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In Hal Ebbott's debut novel, Among Friends, two wealthy New York families are spending a weekend in the country. They've gotten together for decades –...
David Litt's new memoir is about finding common ground through surfing
09 Jul 2025
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Former Obama speechwriter David Litt and his brother-in-law, Matt, couldn't be more different. But during the pandemic, Matt taught Litt how to surf. ...
In the new speculative novel 'Weepers,' mourning is outsourced to professionals
08 Jul 2025
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In Peter Mendelsund's novel Weepers, many in the world are concerned they'll be replaced by smart machines. But a cowboy poet named Ed has found work ...
Ten years later, Ta-Nehisi Coates says 'Between the World and Me' is no longer his
07 Jul 2025
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Ten years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates published Between the World and Me, written as a letter to his then-15-year-old son. The book was released shortly aft...
Kevin Kwan explores race and identity in 'Sex and Vanity' and 'Lies and Weddings'
04 Jul 2025
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Today's encore episode features two interviews with Kevin Kwan, author of the Crazy Rich Asians series. First, former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro spo...
In Emma Straub's novel 'All Adults Here,' family is messy
03 Jul 2025
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Author Emma Straub has written a book about family dynamics and the mess and love that comes with them in All Adults Here. It's no secret that familie...
In 'Lessons in Chemistry' a chemist is the star of... a cooking show?
02 Jul 2025
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Bonnie Garmus' novel Lessons in Chemistry got a lot of buzz when it was first released in 2022. Elizabeth Zott is a talented chemist but because it's ...