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'The Rachel Incident' looks back on early-20s friendships, love and mistakes

01 Jul 2025

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The novel The Rachel Incident is rooted around a wonderful, messy friendship. Rachel and James live together, party, and get themselves into a peculia...

Emily Henry's 'Funny Story' centers a new character in rom-com tropes

30 Jun 2025

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Two childhood best friends realize they're in love and break up with their significant others to be together – that's a classic romantic-comedy stor...

New books by Damon Young and Dennard Dayle take different routes to humor

27 Jun 2025

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Today on the show, two new books take different routes to humor. First, writer Damon Young is out with an anthology of comedic essays called That's Ho...

'The Pretender' centers on a real peasant who learns he is heir to England's throne

26 Jun 2025

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In 1483, a 10-year-old peasant named John Collan is visited by a stranger who shares a life-changing piece of information. John isn't the son of a far...

In 'The Science of Revenge,' an expert explains why humans are hardwired for payback

25 Jun 2025

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In his new book, The Science of Revenge, James Kimmel Jr. argues that there is a human desire to get even – and it might even be an addiction. Kimme...

'Great Black Hope' is a character study of a young, Black, queer man in high society

24 Jun 2025

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Smith – the protagonist in Great Black Hope – is at a party in the Hamptons when he's arrested for cocaine possession. Smith is a young, Black, qu...

'Fatherhood' traces a history of masculinity, from Aristotle to Sigmund Freud

23 Jun 2025

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Historian Augustine Sedgewick became a father in the summer of 2017. At the time, media events like the Bill Cosby trial were publicly challenging ide...

New books by Carl Hiaasen and John Seabrook tell distinctly American stories

20 Jun 2025

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Carl Hiaasen and John Seabrook are out with new books that draw from their personal experiences in order to tell distinctly American stories. First, m...

Evan Osnos' 'The Haves and Have-Yachts' is a book of essays about the new Gilded Age

19 Jun 2025

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Following Donald Trump's election in 2016, New Yorker reporter Evan Osnos wanted to understand what the president's wealth and status represented in t...

Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig reflect on 'The L Word' in memoir 'So Gay For You'

18 Jun 2025

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By the early 2000s, only a handful of queer female characters had ever been featured on television. Then, The L Word entered the scene in 2004, explor...

For a novel on the first women astronauts, Taylor Jenkins Reid studied old NASA PDFs

17 Jun 2025

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Joan Goodwin, an astronomer who has been in love with the stars since childhood, learns one day in 1980 that NASA is seeking the first women astronaut...

As prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern juggled leadership and motherhood

16 Jun 2025

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In 2017, Jacinda Ardern was sitting in a bathroom waiting to learn two things: whether she was going to be the prime minister of New Zealand – and w...

In 'The Dry Season,' Melissa Febos chronicles a transformative year of celibacy

13 Jun 2025

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Writer and professor Melissa Febos had been in a series of consecutive relationships for decades. Then, one particularly devastating experience led he...

Susan Choi's 'Flashlight' is about an alternate-universe version of her own family

12 Jun 2025

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A 10-year-old girl, Louisa, and her father take a walk on breakwater in Japan, where her family is living. Louisa is later found on a beach – her fa...

'Sea of Grass' chronicles the disappearance of the North American prairie

11 Jun 2025

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The North American prairie is home to bison, elk, wolves and bald eagles – and it's disappearing at a rapid rate. In their new book Sea of Grass, wr...

In 'The Catch,' estranged sisters confront a mystery surrounding their mother's death

10 Jun 2025

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Yrsa Daley-Ward's new novel The Catch has a mind-bending premise. Clara and Dempsey are twin sisters raised separately after their mother's mysterious...

Madeleine Thien's new novel 'The Book of Records' is a story that traverses centuries

09 Jun 2025

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It took author Madeleine Thien nearly a decade to write her new novel The Book of Records. In the story, 7-year-old Lina and her father take refuge at...

'What Will People Think?' and 'Climbing in Heels' star women trying to make it big

06 Jun 2025

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New novels by Sara Hamdan and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas follow women in the entertainment industry who must balance ambition with the pressures of famil...

'Theater Kid' is a memoir from the producer of 'Rent,' 'Avenue Q,' and 'Hamilton'

05 Jun 2025

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Jeffrey Seller says he found his home on stage from an early age. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit as an adopted, gay, Jewish kid in a low-income ...

'Freedom Season' argues the events of 1963 transformed the civil rights movement

04 Jun 2025

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The year 1963 was a landmark one for the civil rights movement – and it's the subject of Peniel Joseph's new book Freedom Season. In the book, the U...

In new memoir, women's college basketball coach Dawn Staley says she's a 'sore loser'

03 Jun 2025

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There's a statue of Dawn Staley in Columbia, South Carolina, where she's coached the University of South Carolina women's basketball team to three nat...

In debut novel 'Food Person,' a food writer ghostwrites a celebrity cookbook

02 Jun 2025

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In Adam Roberts' debut novel, a food writer named Isabella loses her job after fumbling a chocolate souffle demonstration on Instagram Live. But soon ...

Two authors consider how being a daughter shaped their relationship to motherhood

30 May 2025

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New books by Joy Harjo and Ruthie Ackerman focus on very different moments in the life cycle of motherhood. First, Harjo's new book Washing My Mother'...

In 'Anima Rising,' Gustav Klimt encounters a young woman under strange circumstances

29 May 2025

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In 1911 Vienna, a man on his way home spots the figure of a woman at the edge of the river. She is still, beautiful and nude, framed by tendrils of ye...

'Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows' restores a lost chapter of comic book history

28 May 2025

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In the 1950s, horror comic books – featuring at times gory depictions of violence – were rising in popularity. But these comics triggered a moral ...

Honor Jones' 'Sleep' explores how our childhoods influence who we are as parents

27 May 2025

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In Honor Jones' new novel Sleep, the protagonist Margaret grows up in a verdant suburban world with her family and a best friend who follows her throu...

Karen Hao's new book is a skeptical look at Sam Altman and Elon Musk's AI empire

26 May 2025

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OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit meant to conduct artificial intelligence research that would benefit the general public. In the company's early days...

With new novel, Ocean Vuong says he wants to reframe America as a place of salvage

23 May 2025

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Ocean Vuong's debut novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous placed him in an elite club of American writers. He teaches at NYU and is the recipient of a...

'Little Bosses Everywhere' looks into the Wild West of multilevel marketing

22 May 2025

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Multilevel marketing – or MLM – first became popular in the period that followed World War II. Since then, millions have tried their luck as sales...

A new biography of Rafael Nadal focuses on the tennis star's domination on clay

21 May 2025

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Tennis legend Rafael Nadal retired last year after a record-breaking career, one that included winning every major championship. In a new biography, C...

'Original Sin' argues Biden aides enabled his reelection bid, despite mental decline

20 May 2025

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Original Sin recounts a number of moments during which former President Joe Biden allegedly struggled to recognize the people around him, like close a...

In 'Class Clown,' humorist Dave Barry embraces both the funny and hard parts of life

19 May 2025

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Barry wrote a humor column for 22 years. In his new book Class Clown, he tells the story of the first 77 years of his life,...

'The Golden Road' and 'The Lucky Ones' examine India's ancient and recent history

16 May 2025

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In light of the latest conflict between India and Pakistan, today's episode focuses on two books that examine India's ancient and recent history. Firs...

A new biography tells the twin stories of James Gandolfini and Tony Soprano

15 May 2025

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James Gandolfini starred in The Sopranos for six seasons. The show, which ended in 2007, was considered an instant classic and permanently linked Gand...

'The Lost and the Found' takes an intimate look at homelessness in San Francisco

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Kevin Fagan embedded with the city's unhoused population. Now retired, he's written a book built around...

In 'Julie Chan Is Dead,' former influencer Liann Zhang takes a swipe at the industry

13 May 2025

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Julie Chan has an average life working as a cashier at a grocery store. But she's constantly getting mistaken for a famous influencer, her estranged i...

Isabel Allende's latest historical novel draws from her time at a women's magazine

12 May 2025

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While crafting her latest novel, Isabel Allende says she wanted to tell the story of the Chilean Civil War of 1891 from the perspective of a neutral p...

In 'Romantic Friction,' 'The Fact Checker' the publishing world is fodder for fiction

09 May 2025

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In their new novels, authors Lori Gold and Austin Kelley draw from personal experiences in the publishing and magazine industries. First, Gold's Roman...

'Personhood' argues fetal rights are the next frontier of the anti-abortion movement

08 May 2025

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Mary Ziegler is a law professor at UC Davis and a leading scholar on the abortion debate. In her new book Personhood, she argues that the anti-abortio...

The new novel 'Fair Play' is a self-aware take on the golden age of detective fiction

07 May 2025

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In the new novel Fair Play, Abigail is hosting a murder mystery party at an Irish country house on New Year's Eve. She's also in deep mourning for her...

Loryn Brantz's 'Poems of Parenting' gives parents permission to laugh out loud

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Parenting young children can be extremely taxing, but also beautiful – and hilarious. That nuance is at the core of Loryn Brantz's new poetry collec...

In her new memoir, Tina Knowles, mother of Beyoncé and Solange, tells her own story

05 May 2025

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Tina Knowles intended to write a behind-the-scenes look at her career in the music business. But she says that when she began writing, her own story f...

New cookbooks from Sarah Ahn and Roy Choi take different approaches to Korean cuisine

02 May 2025

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Two new cookbooks take different approaches – one modern and one more traditional – to Korean cuisine. First, Roy Choi is the co-founder of Los An...

With 'Rabbit Moon,' Jennifer Haigh chooses Shanghai as the backdrop to family tragedy

01 May 2025

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Jennifer Haigh's latest novel Rabbit Moon opens with a hit and run accident in pre-dawn Shanghai. The victim is a 22-year-old American woman named Lin...

In 'Putin's Revenge,' Lucian Kim traces the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine

30 Apr 2025

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For more than 20 years, Lucian Kim covered Russia and Ukraine as a journalist. Now, the former NPR reporter is out with a new book that aims to explai...

Katie Kitamura's 'Audition' is a puzzle, but she says it's not meant to be solved

29 Apr 2025

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In a Manhattan restaurant, the narrator of Audition meets a young man for lunch. Everyone has a different understanding of the pair's relationship, in...

Emily Henry's latest novel 'Great Big Beautiful Life' explores love beyond romance

28 Apr 2025

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Known for books like Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry is the patron saint of millennial romance. But for her latest novel, the a...

Zadie Smith looks back at her debut novel 'White Teeth' 25 years after its release

25 Apr 2025

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Zadie Smith's White Teeth marked its 25th anniversary in January. The now canonical novel tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a shy Engl...

'Happy Land' was inspired by a real-life kingdom of formerly enslaved people

24 Apr 2025

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When Nikki travels to visit her grandmother in western North Carolina, she expects answers about her family's history. But instead, she uncovers her c...

'Paper Doll' documents trans TikTok creator Dylan Mulvaney's journey through girlhood

23 Apr 2025

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Three years ago, trans content creator and actor Dylan Mulvaney posted a video on TikTok documenting her first day of girlhood. Though she didn't expe...

An early biography paints Pope Francis as 'The Great Reformer' of the Catholic Church

22 Apr 2025

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Pope Francis died Monday, leaving behind a legacy as "Pope of the People" and a change agent within the Catholic Church. Austen Ivereigh's The Great R...

Aided by new sources, Clay Risen's 'Red Scare' brings McCarthyism back to life

21 Apr 2025

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Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on newly declassified sources. In Red Scare, Risen depicts M...

Two new children's books view the natural world as a site of personal growth

18 Apr 2025

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Two new picture books explore how the outside world can transform our relationships with our communities and ourselves. First, Kiese Laymon is out wit...

A new cookbook by Darjeeling Express chef Asma Khan was inspired by seasonal cooking

17 Apr 2025

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Asma Khan grew up in India, where late summer means monsoon season. But it wasn't until she moved to England in the '90s that she learned how to cook....

Rex Ogle's 'When We Ride' is a novel-in-verse about a best friendship under pressure

16 Apr 2025

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Seventeen-year-old Benny is studying hard and working as a busboy, hoping to attend college. Meanwhile, his childhood best friend, Lawson, is on a dif...

'Adventures in the Louvre' will teach you how to fall in love with the famous museum

15 Apr 2025

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Elaine Sciolino has one mantra: "Never go to the Louvre on an empty stomach or with a full bladder." The former Paris bureau chief of The New York Tim...

An obituary writer makes a grave error in John Kenney's 'I See You've Called in Dead'

14 Apr 2025

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John Kenney's I See You've Called in Dead is about an obituary writer named Bud Stanely. One late night after a particularly bad date and too many gla...

Two new novels explore a world where technology has even greater access to our minds

11 Apr 2025

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Two new novels explore technology's increasing access to our most intimate thoughts. First, the protagonist in The Mechanics of Memory can't remember ...

A new oral history of Lollapalooza recalls the alt-rock music festival's wildest days

10 Apr 2025

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Lollapalooza is a popular music festival that takes place in Chicago's Grant Park each year. But it was conceived as a farewell tour for the band Jane...

Emma Pattee's 'Tilt' imagines the aftermath of a life-changing earthquake

09 Apr 2025

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Annie is 37 weeks pregnant. She's shopping at IKEA in Portland, Oregon, when everything around her begins to shake. It's an earthquake – the big one...

In the wake of a sexual assault, astronaut Amanda Nguyen turned to activism

08 Apr 2025

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In 2013, Amanda Nguyen was a Harvard senior interested in pursuing a career at NASA or the CIA. But she says those plans were temporarily derailed whe...

In 'Everything Is Tuberculosis,' John Green turns his attention to a deadly disease

07 Apr 2025

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Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases in human history – and it still kills more than a million people every year. In a new book, The Fault in ...

Authors of two new novels draw inspiration from history in wildly different ways

04 Apr 2025

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Today on the show, we hear from authors who were inspired by history in wildly different ways. First, when Emma Donoghue encountered a famous photo of...

To confront radical change, 'Slate' writer Scaachi Koul wrote a new book of essays

03 Apr 2025

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Three years ago, Scaachi Koul went through a divorce, a process that she says was "disorienting." But divorce, the Slate writer says, also offered a f...

A new book from Emily Feng asks what it means to be Chinese in Xi Jinping's China

02 Apr 2025

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NPR reporter Emily Feng lived in, and reported from, Beijing for years. But in 2022, the Chinese government told Feng, who was born in the United Stat...

In 'Long Island,' one woman returns to Ireland after discovering her husband's affair

01 Apr 2025

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At the beginning of Long Island, an Irish-American woman named Eilis opens the front door of her New York home and is greeted by news of her husband's...

Christine Wenc's 'Funny Because It's True' calls 'The Onion' "the original fake news"

31 Mar 2025

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The satirical news magazine The Onion has been putting out ironic and often absurd headlines for more than 40 years. Christine Wenc was part of the pa...

John Himmelman, Reginald Dwayne Betts take a populist approach to poetry in new books

28 Mar 2025

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The authors of two new poetry collections aspire to reach broad audiences with their work. First, John Himmelman says he wanted to tell stories with a...

In 'Beartooth,' brothers embark on an illicit journey into Yellowstone National Park

27 Mar 2025

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In Callan Wink's new novel Beartooth, two brothers live at the edge of Yellowstone National Park. Their father has recently died of cancer, leaving be...

Chuck Schumer's 'Antisemitism in America' warns of a resurgence in antisemitic views

26 Mar 2025

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Sen. Chuck Schumer received major backlash from his party after supporting a Republican spending bill earlier this month – and some Democrats have c...

Allison Epstein's 'Fagin the Thief' gives a Charles Dickens character a second chance

25 Mar 2025

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Author Allison Epstein says when she read Oliver Twist, she found Charles Dickens' portrayal of Fagin, the novel's central scoundrel, to be stereotypi...

A former Meta executive characterizes company leadership as "careless" in new memoir

24 Mar 2025

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Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Meta executive, is now barred from discussing her criticism of the company. But before Meta gained an injunction against...

In two noir novels, crime lurks beneath small town life in Norway and New England

21 Mar 2025

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In their new noir novels, authors Joseph Finder and Jo Nesbø choose small towns as the settings for dark plotlines. First, Finder's The Oligarch's Da...

A new biography tells the story of a South Asian Hollywood star who passed as white

20 Mar 2025

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In 1936, Merle Oberon became the first Asian woman–and person of color–to receive an Oscar nomination for best actress. She was nominated for her ...

'I'm That Girl' follows gymnast Jordan Chiles' road to the Olympics

19 Mar 2025

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In a new memoir, Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles describes moments of deep uncertainty in her storied career. For example, there was a time in her mid-t...

The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins was inspired by Greek myths and reality TV

18 Mar 2025

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The first book in the The Hunger Games series was published more than a decade ago, ultimately launching a hugely popular film franchise, iconic chara...

A new novel from Karen Russell is a sprawling story set during the Dust Bowl

17 Mar 2025

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The Antidote opens on what seems like an ordinary Sunday in a fictional town in 1930s Nebraska. But by 3 p.m., apocalyptic clouds cover the sun and ma...

Books by critic Kenneth Turan and actor Rupert Everett show two sides of Hollywood

14 Mar 2025

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Two books set in Hollywood show different sides of the film business, from industry-shaping success to the personal frustration of rejection. First, L...

Jennifer Finney Boylan's latest memoir 'Cleavage' is a reflection on transgender life

13 Mar 2025

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Jennifer Finney Boylan's 2003 memoir She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders was about her new life as a woman. Since then, Boylan has become a promine...

In 'Death Takes Me,' men are the victims of violence usually inflicted on women

12 Mar 2025

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La muerte me da, a novel published in Spanish in 2007 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cristina Rivera Garza, is now available to English readers. Dea...

Alexander Vindman's 'The Folly of Realism' suggests a long-term approach to Ukraine

11 Mar 2025

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More than three years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Alexander Vindman is out with a new book on U.S.-Ukraine relations. Vindman, who ...

'Dream Count' is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel in more than a decade

10 Mar 2025

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Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie hasn't published a novel in more than a decade. After writing literary hits like Americanah and essays like t...

Picture book biographies introduce children to Toni Morrison and Ruby Bridges

07 Mar 2025

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Two biographical picture books introduce children to the life stories of writer Toni Morrison and civil rights activist Ruby Bridges. First, Andrea Da...

'Harlem Rhapsody' is a novel about an affair at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance

06 Mar 2025

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A while back, Victoria Christopher Murray set out on a mission to learn about the women of the Harlem Renaissance. But in her research, she mostly fou...

In 'Back After This,' a podcast host tries to find love

05 Mar 2025

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NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour host Linda Holmes knows a thing or two about audio. She leans into this knowledge in her latest novel, in which a podcast p...

'You Didn't Hear This From Me' is Kelsey McKinney's gossip bible

04 Mar 2025

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Kelsey McKinney has built her career on gossip. The co-creator and former host of the popular podcast Normal Gossip has been interested in the topic s...

In 'Stone Yard Devotional,' a woman abandons modern life for a religious community

03 Mar 2025

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In Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional, an unnamed narrator renounces modern life in Sydney, retreating to a cloistered religious community in her ...

Two James Baldwin experts break down his early fiction and political writing

28 Feb 2025

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To mark the end of Black History Month, we're revisiting two conversations about James Baldwin that first aired last summer for his 100th birthday. Fi...

The authors of 'Pseudoscience' explore and debunk your favorite conspiracy theories

27 Feb 2025

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Strange stories are often used to fill gaps in human knowledge. But why do people love bizarre explanations for the unexplained? Dr. Lydia Kang and Na...

Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama writes and reads poetry that speaks to the human condition

26 Feb 2025

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Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama cataloged spreadsheets of poems to help create his new anthology, 44 Poems on Being with Each Other. The collection featu...

In 'Talk to Me,' the grandson of a former Haitian president uncovers family secrets

25 Feb 2025

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In 1957, a labor leader named Daniel Fignolé was the president of Haiti for 19 days. Just two weeks after his inauguration, he was forced to sign a r...

Mark Greaney takes on geopolitics in the latest installment of the Gray Man series

24 Feb 2025

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Mark Greaney is the author of the Gray Man series, a collection of espionage novels that chronicle the adventures of ex-CIA operative Court Gentry. Th...

New books from Reid Hoffman and Bill Gates look at tech revolutions past and future

21 Feb 2025

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Reid Hoffman has invested in AI for years. The LinkedIn co-founder said he used AI to vet his new book, Superagency, written with Greg Beato, which ma...

In 'Idle Grounds,' a pack of children searches the woods for their missing cousin

20 Feb 2025

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When a young child goes missing at a family gathering, a pack of cousins sets out into the woods to find her. Idle Grounds follows this group of child...

A new memoir from Ira Madison III is more than just 'Pure Innocent Fun'

19 Feb 2025

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TV writer, culture critic and podcast host Ira Madison III was not just one of the only Black students at his high school, he was also one of the only...

'Life Hacks for a Little Alien' follows a lonely girl's pursuit of an ancient tome

18 Feb 2025

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In Life Hacks for a Little Alien, both the narrator and protagonist are unnamed. The debut novel from Alice Franklin is written from a second-person p...

A new book from Peter Beinart asks Jewish people to reimagine the Israeli state

17 Feb 2025

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Peter Beinart, once a defender of the Israeli state, has become one of its sharpest critics. His new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza,...

Two novels from Charmaine Wilkerson explore cultural inheritance in Black families

14 Feb 2025

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Caribbean American journalist Charmaine Wilkerson began her professional life in TV news. She recalls meeting people on the worst day of their life, w...

Indie-rock artist Neko Case opens up about her childhood in a new memoir

13 Feb 2025

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Singer-songwriter Neko Case of The New Pornographers band has just released a memoir titled The Harder I Fight the More I Love You. While the book tou...

'Bronshtein in the Bronx' is a fictional account of Leon Trotsky's New York exile

12 Feb 2025

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In 1917, Lev Bronshtein – also known as Leon Trotsky – spent 10 weeks in exile in New York City. The Russian revolutionary hoped to spark a social...