After A 20-Year Wait, Louis Edwards' Latest Novel Is Out
NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with author Louis Edwards about his new novel: Ramadan Ramsey.
Books
In This Memoir, Prison Is A Place — And A State Of Mind
Novelist Hwang Sok-yong spent years in prison — a disruption that's reflected in the structure of his new memoir. It's a cinematic, riveting story that captures the struggles of his life and career.
Best-Selling Book Helps Recast The Historic Battle At The Alamo
The book — Forget the Alamo — challenges common misconceptions surrounding the conflict — including the notion that Davy Crockett was a martyr who fought to the death rather than surrender.
All Might Not End Too Well In Mona Awad's New Novel
In All's Well, a theater professor in chronic pain, ignored by doctors, believes putting on one of Shakespeare's least popular plays will renew her — and then three mystery men offer her a cure.
A New David Brooks Article Takes A Look At How The Cultural Elite Broke America
Who is responsible for society's ills? Writer David Brooks thinks he has the answer. Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with him about his recent column in The Atlantic, How The Bobos Broke America.
These Are The Best Summer Reads For The Romantic At Heart
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with author Jasmine Guillory about the best romance reads of the summer.
In 'Like Other Girls,' You Can Be — And Play — Whatever You Want. Even Football.
Britta Lundin's Like Other Girls follows Mara, a hot-tempered 6'2" high school sports star who's booted from basketball for brawling, but finds a new life and a new way of being on the football field.
Here Are 4 Fabulous Beach Reads — Whether You're On A Beach Or Not
Late summer is the time to lose yourself in novels, so we asked author (and Key West resident) Meg Cabot to share a few of her favorite books to while away the hours on the water.
A Novel That Invokes History — But Can't Quite Define It
In Savage Tongues, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi gives us a protagonist who speaks often of history and how it's affected her — but what, exactly, is "history" to her? Readers will be left wondering.
'Fallout' Tells The Story Of The Journalist Who Exposed The 'Hiroshima Cover-Up'
Lesley M.M. Blume's book tells the story of John Hersey, whose on-the-ground reporting in Hiroshima, Japan, exposed the world to the devastation of nuclear weapons. Originally broadcast Aug. 19, 2020.