How Our Brains Create Meaning From The Sounds Around Us
How do our brains create meaning from the sounds around us? That is the question at the heart of a new book from neuroscientist Nina Kraus, called Of Sound Mind.
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'Believing' Is A Book Only Anita Hill Could Have Written
Altogether, Believing is an elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors.
Man Wrongfully Convicted In Central Park Five Case Discusses Memoir In Triad
A man wrongfully convicted in connection with a horrific attack on a jogger in New York's Central Park has a new book out.
Dan Savage Looks At What Has Changed In The 30 Years He's Been Giving Sex Advice
Savage has a new book celebrating 30 years writing his sex advice column "Savage Love." He talked with NPR about where he's been wrong, what's changed and why gay people know more about sex.
Ruth Ozeki Tackles Capitalism, Materialism And Neoliberalism In New Book
NPR's Scott Simon asks Ruth Ozeki about her new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness.
Anthony Doerr On The Spark That Inspired 'Cloud Cuckoo Land'
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Anthony Doerr about his latest novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Fall Brings YA Historicals About Thieves And The Rapscallions Who Love Them
Both The City Beautiful and Before We Disappear feature young crooks getting by in big cities at the turn of the 19th century, one haunted by his past and the other trapped by his magic powers.
Novelist Edwidge Danticat: Allow Haitians To Determine Their Own Future
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with award winning Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat about the challenges in Haiti.
Kat Chow's 'Seeing Ghosts' Is A Memoir Of Grief And Joy
Author and journalist Kat Chow writes in her new memoir, "Seeing Ghosts," that “grief is a container of contradictions.” Chow explores that gr
Communication Is The Challenge In This Novel Of Loss And Discovery
Jon McGregor's new novel follows an expedition guide who suffers a stroke in the middle of an Antarctic ice storm and loses the ability to speak — and the people around him at a loss for what to say.