Iceland's first lady on the 'Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women'
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Eliza Reed, the first lady of Iceland, about her new book and why her country is a great place to be a woman.
Books
Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about
Galloway escaped enslavement, became a Union spy and helped recruit thousands of Black soldiers to fight with the North, but his name has been largely left out of the Civil War narrative.
How did the Republican Party become the party of Trump?
New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters says the religious right and social conservatives "got basically everything that they wanted" from Trump's presidency. Peters' new book is Insurgency.
What great book by a Black author should be brought to the screen next?
Octavia Butler's 1979 novel Kindred is being made into a TV series. So we asked authors and critics what other not-yet-filmed books by Black authors they'd most like to see adapted for screen.
Thriller 'The Violin Conspiracy' addresses racism in classical music
In his debut thriller, Brendan Slocumb employs polemic about racism to great effect as he reminds us that the high-toned world of classical music suffers from, and because of, racism.
'Foreverland' explores the mundane, infuriating and hilarious moments of marriage
Juana Summers speaks with author Heather Havrilesky about her new book, "Foreverland," that explores the mundane, infuriating and oftentimes hilarious moments of marriage.
Banned books are back in the spotlight — but they've always been for this book club
Juana Summers talks with David Rafferty and Blanca Noriega of the Banned Book Club in Tacoma, Wash., about the value they see in reading books some find objectionable.
Ashley Bryan, children's illustrator and author, has died at 98
He created stories centered on African and African American folk tales and his vibrantly colored collage and paper-cut illustrations adorned the pages of some 50 books.
This 8-year-old's book is a hit at his library. He offers advice for aspiring authors
Dillon Helbig wrote a book over winter break and slipped it onto a local library shelf in Boise, Idaho. After librarians found it, they entered it into their catalog. Now it's on a long waiting list.
A woman embraces change in the 1960s in Tessa Hadley's novel 'Free Love'
Phyllis Fischer, a 40-year-old wife and mother, is drawn into a liberating relationship with a much younger man. She soon realizes that perhaps she wasn't so content as she thought.