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Celeste Ng's powerful new dystopian novel reflects our headlines back to us

2:06pm October 04, 2022

by Maureen Corrigan

Our Missing Hearts imagines a world of governmental cruelty — and the armies of citizens who both facilitate and resist. It's a masterful work that epitomizes the possibilities of storytelling.

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Some of the books on the short list for the National Book Award.

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Here are the finalists for the 2022 National Book Awards

10:15am October 04, 2022

by Maureen Pao

Three of the five finalists for fiction have been nominated for their debut novels, while all five finalists for young people's literature are being honored for the first time.

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Ricks' book argues the nonviolent Civil Rights movement employed a military strategy

7:25am October 04, 2022

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Thomas Ricks about his book on a military history of the civil rights movement: Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968.

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Adam Silvera speaks onstage at the 2020 Audie Awards Gala at Guastavino's in New York City on March 2, 2020.

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'The First to Die At The End' could be the newest Adam Silvera YA blockbuster

6:27am October 04, 2022

by Brandon Gates

YA phenom Adam Silvera has a new novel out Oct. 4. It's a prequel to his blockbuster They Both Die At the End, which is still on The New York Times bestsellers list after more than two years.

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In 'Thistlefoot,' GennaRose Nethercott explores painful history through folklore

4:05pm October 03, 2022

by Mallory Yu

In her debut book Thistlefoot, author GennaRose Nethercott reimagines the centuries-old character Baba Yaga as a Jewish woman living in a shtetl in 1919 Russia, in a time of civil war and pogroms.

McKinsey & Company management consulting firm operates in more than 60 countries.

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How McKinsey cashed in by consulting for both companies and their regulators

3:28pm October 03, 2022

by Dave Davies

When McKinsey Comes to Town authors Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe say the consulting firm helped companies boost tobacco and opioid sales — while at the same time working for the FDA.

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'The Hero of This Book' is a lightly fictionalized memoir that examines devotion

5:00am October 03, 2022

by Heller McAlpin

Elizabeth McCracken promised her mom she'd never write about her. But this work of fiction strives to conjure her up in order to prevent her from "evanescing."

Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint), commander of the royal navy, is a fleet fox.

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'House of the Dragon' recap episode 7: Just you and eye

10:01pm October 02, 2022

by Glen Weldon

On the 7th episode of HBO's Game of Thrones spin-off, guests at a funeral express their grief through sex and violence. Fantasy royals: they're just like us!

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Celeste Ng on her latest novel 'Our Missing Hearts'

8:36am October 02, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

A 12 year-old boy learns the truth about his missing mother and his dystopian society in "Our Missing Hearts." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Celeste Ng about her new novel.

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These fall graphic novels reflect the diversity of the genre

9:59am October 01, 2022

by Etelka Lehoczky

The comics renaissance continues this season with all sorts of great graphic novels in every genre imaginable — from Below Ambition to The Night Eaters to All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End.