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'Russ & Daughters' cookbook documents a century-old New York City establishment
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Russ & Daughters opened in 1914 and is one of the last remaining “appetizing stores” in New York City. The shop – which the owners say is not a ...
Susan Choi’s 'Flashlight' is about an alternate-universe version of her own family
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As 2025 comes to a close, we're revisiting interviews with this year's nominees and winners of some of the biggest prizes in literature. Last up: A 10...
'Feeding Ghosts' is a graphic memoir grappling with generational trauma
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As 2025 comes to a close, we're revisiting interviews with this year's nominees and winners of some of the biggest prizes in literature. Tessa Hulls’...
In ‘A Guardian and a Thief,’ a mother’s love for her family threatens her own morals
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As 2025 comes to a close, we're revisiting interviews with this year's nominees and winners of some of the biggest prizes in literature. Megha Majumda...
A new novel from Karen Russell is a sprawling story set during the Dust Bowl
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As 2025 comes to a close, we're revisiting interviews with this year's nominees and winners of some of the biggest prizes in literature. Karen Russell...
In Rabih Alameddine’s new novel, a mother and son share a tiny Beirut apartment
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As 2025 comes to a close, we're revisiting interviews with this year's nominees and winners of some of the biggest prizes in literature. First up: Raj...
Dorie Greenspan and Paul Hollywood discuss their new and nourishing cake cookbooks
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re feeling burnt out from your annual holiday cookie-baking marathon, don’t fear. There’s hope on the other side… in the form of cake. ...
'Unabridged' explores the history of the dictionary – and why it’s in trouble now
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dictionaries were once bestsellers, but between the internet and artificial intelligence, its role in our culture has changed. Stefan Fatsis is out wi...
'Hiddensee' is a 'Nutcracker'-inspired novel from the author of 'Wicked'
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, Wicked author Gregory Maguire set out to tell the backstory of another classic fairytale. His novel Hiddensee focuses on Herr Drosselmeyer, t...
Jeff Kinney on his iconic, now 20-book 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has sold more than 300 million books since the first installment was published in 2007. The star of the se...
Mahmood Mamdani’s 'Slow Poison' centers politics of belonging in postcolonial Uganda
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mahmood Mamdani — a professor of government at Columbia University and the father of Zohran Mamdani, NYC’s next mayor — has spent decades resear...
Revisiting ‘Waiting to Exhale’
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the film adaptation of ‘Waiting to Exhale’ celebrates its 30th anniversary, B.A. Parker and Andrew Limbong, along with It’s Been a Minute hos...
Paul McCartney on his band 'Wings,' plus the story of indie label Bloodshot Records
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two new memoirs zoom in on important moments in music history. First, Paul McCartney’s new book Wings reflects on the life of his post-Beatles band,...
In this novel, the residents of a Brussels apartment building brace for Nazi invasion
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
33 Place Brugmann opens with a list of the residents of a Brussels apartment building. The year is 1939 and Germany’s invasion of Belgium is on the ...
William Boyd’s 'The Predicament' is a spy thriller with a conspiratorial edge
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In William Boyd’s newest novel The Predicament, lead character and travel writer Gabriel Dax becomes a secret spy, scouring the globe on British ord...
Rep. Jim Clyburn’s new book 'The First Eight' traces the history of his predecessors
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn has spent more than three decades in Congress. But he’s not the first Black congressman to represent South Carolina; the...
'The Heir Apparent' asks existential questions about Britain and its beloved crown
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Becoming the queen of England wasn’t in the plan for Lexi Villiers, the heroine of The Heir Apparent. But when tragedy strikes Lexi’s family and s...
Revisiting ‘Kitchen Confidential’
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Bourdain published his memoir Kitchen Confidential in 2000 as a little-known chef. In the 25 years since its publication, his writing – and ...
‘How a Game Lives,’ ‘How to Save the Internet’ show the best and worst of life online
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two new books delve into the best and worst corners of the internet. First, Jacob Geller creates YouTube essays about art, literature, film, video gam...
A new book of poems by Kate Baer wrestles with the realities of middle age
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NPR’s Scott Detrow and poet Kate Baer share a favorite bookstore in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They recently met there to discuss Baer’s new poetry...
In 'The Unveiling,' a disastrous cruise becomes an opportunity for cultural reckoning
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Even if you’re scared of cruise ships, don’t turn away from Quan Barry’s The Unveiling. When film scout and photographer Striker boards an Antar...
Deborah Willis on her seminal history of Black photography, reissued 25 years later
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Deborah Willis is one of the foremost authorities on Black photography. The MacArthur “genius award” winner has dedicated her career to cataloging...
In ‘Best Offer Wins,’ an ambitious millennial is driven mad by the homebuying process
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marisa Kashino used to report on the real estate industry in Washington, D.C. That experience inspired her debut novel, Best Offer Wins, which follows...
Revisiting Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Herbert’s 1965 epic Dune was once the domain of sci-fi diehards. But in recent years, the book has crossed over into the mainstream. In today’...
In new novels, marriages are tested by a last request and a moment in the spotlight
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In two new novels, marriages are tested by unusual circumstances. First, in Ann Packer’s Some Bright Nowhere, a woman dying of cancer makes a big as...
Abby Phillip’s 'A Dream Deferred' chronicles Jesse Jackson’s rise to political esteem
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rev. Jesse Jackson is well-known as an icon of the American Civil Rights Movement, a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr., and a steadfast activist —...
'The Devil Is a Southpaw' is a story within a story — or so its narrator says
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are all unreliable narrators self-aware? The answer might depend on the novel, but in Brandon Hobson’s The Devil Is a Southpaw, our primary narrator...
John Fetterman on his new memoir, his mental health, and disagreements with his party
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) won Pennsylvania’s Senate seat in 2022, Democrats saw him as a symbol of a new direction during the Trump era. Thre...
A new book looks to the writings of Renaissance-era nuns for advice on life today
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Modern life can make it tempting to return to simpler times, like a 16th-century Spanish convent. In the new book Convent Wisdom, academics Ana Garrig...
Revisiting ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Janie Crawford – back in her hometown of Eatonville, Florida – recounts a journey of self-discovery, structured around three marriages. Their Eyes...
A Claire McCardell biography and an AI sci-fi are among NPR’s top book picks of 2025
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NPR’s annual Books We Love guide is back for its 13th year, sharing over 380 hand-selected reads by NPR staff and critics. In today’s post-Thanksg...
'My Cambodia: A Khmer Cookbook' is Nite Yun’s love letter to food and family
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some cookbooks don’t just provide recipes; they tell stories—and Nite Yun’s My Cambodia: A Khmer Cookbook is a perfect example. Yun discovered t...
'We Were Liars' author returns for more teenage catharsis in 'We Fell Apart'
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
E. Lockhart understands the struggle of being a teenager. Her first novel We Were Liars was a standout YA hit of 2014, celebrated (and at times, criti...
Comic journalist Joe Sacco on his portrait of deadly riots in Uttar Pradesh, India
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2013, two young Hindu cousins killed a Muslim man in a rural part of Uttar Pradesh, India. What followed was a series of alternating violence in th...
Justinian Huang’s new novel follows a Taiwanese-American family intent on a male heir
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Justinian Huang’s new novel Lucky Seed is about a single, gay son pressured by his Taiwanese-American family to produce a male heir. In an interview...
Revisiting ‘Gone Girl’
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy and Nick Dunn have the perfect life and are the perfect couple until they reach a breaking point, revealing their true selves. The book that spawn...
'The Ten Year Affair,' 'Sex of the Midwest' look at the role of sex in domestic life
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two new books examine how sex fits into suburban and small-town life, respectively. First, Erin Somers explores marriage and desire in her novel The T...
'Fire in Every Direction' is a personal work by Palestinian scholar Tareq Baconi
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian scholar best known for Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance. But in his new memoir Fire ...
Kathy Iandoli on Gucci Mane’s memoir and becoming the go-to writer for rappers
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gucci Mane’s new memoir Episodes covers a range of difficult topics: depression, mania, anxiety, drug abuse. There are even pages of the book that a...
'Bog Queen' cherishes Earth’s mossy wetlands and the bodies they preserve
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You may have heard of a bog — those wet, mucky environments found mostly in the northern temperate pockets of Canada or Europe — but did you know ...
Margaret Atwood on what finally made her agree to write a memoir
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Best-selling author Margaret Atwood says she originally rejected the idea of writing a memoir. But she warmed up to the idea after she began to think ...
Revisiting ‘Giovanni's Room’
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James Baldwin’s recent centennial birthday allowed us to discuss one of his most celebrated novels, Giovanni’s Room. Andrew Limbong and B. A. Park...
Music biographies 'The Cars,' 'Only God Can Judge Me' balance greatness and tragedy
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two new biographies focus on legendary musical acts: the rock band The Cars and rapper Tupac Shakur. First, in the late 1970s, a Boston radio DJ playe...
John Grisham brings a money-hungry lawyer to center stage in 'The Widow'
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Widow, his 52nd novel and counting, author John Grisham returns to one of his cherished topics: lawyers. But not the type of lawyer one would h...
In 'A Guardian and a Thief,' a mother’s love for her family threatens her own morals
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Megha Majumdar’s new novel takes place in a near-future Kolkata struck by climate change. There, one family’s possibility of escape is jeopardized...
Tochi Onyebuchi’s 'Racebook' is a 'personal history' of a less serious time online
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tochi Onyebuchi remembers when the internet was fun. The science fiction and fantasy author says he initially existed online as a “skinless, raceles...
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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...