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How Bellingcat's Online Sleuths Solve Global Crimes Using Open Source Info

1:31pm March 02, 2021

by Terry Gross

Eliot Higgins is the founder of an online collective that picks apart conspiracy theories and investigates war crimes and hate crimes using clues from the Internet. His new book is We Are Bellingcat.

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Britain's MI5 Spy Agency Proves More Comic Than Tragic In 'Slough House'

11:06am March 02, 2021

by John Powers

Mick Herron's brilliantly plotted series follows a group of maladroit MI5 agents who've somehow blown it with the agency. The latest installment is a timely novel set in a post-Brexit U.K.

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Dr. Seuss is seen here in his La Jolla, Calif., home in 1957.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises Will Shelve 6 Books, Citing 'Hurtful' Portrayals

11:02am March 02, 2021

by Bill Chappell

The decision includes books such as And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo. They have been criticized for how they depict Asian and Black people.

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'Machinehood' Upgrades Asimov's 3 Laws Of Robotics

10:00am March 02, 2021

by Fran Wilde

S.B. Divya's debut novel does what the best science fiction does — establishes a future that's relatable, plausible, and infinitely strange, where implants and wearable tech help humans survive.

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'Klara And The Sun' Asks What It Means To Be Human

8:25am March 02, 2021

by Annalisa Quinn

Kazuo Ishiguro's lovely, mournful new novel is set in a world where children can have android companions, known as Artificial Friends — but can those artificial friends ever replace the children?

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NPR Podcast Hosts' New Book: 'The How And The Wow Of The Human Body'

6:30am March 02, 2021

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to two people who know a lot about channeling kids' curiosity and wonder. Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas — hosts of the NPR podcast Wow in the World — about their children's book.

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Two Determined Mothers Clash Over Integration Efforts In 'What's Mine And Yours'

5:58pm March 01, 2021

by Audie Cornish

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Naima Coster about her novel What's Mine And Yours, about a North Carolina high school in the middle of an integration program in the early 2000.

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Magician Derek DelGaudio Traces His Journey From Card Cheat To Illusionist

1:26pm March 01, 2021

by Dave Davies

The sleight-of-hand master explores themes of identity, honesty and the emotional cost of keeping secrets in the memoir, AMORALMAN. DelGaudio's one-man show In & Of Itself is now available on Hulu.

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Journalist Explores Challenges For 'Power Moms' In New Book

4:46pm February 28, 2021

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist Joann Lublin about her new book, Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life.

Tenzin Kalsang's in-person story times in Tibetan and English on were held at the Williamsburgh branch of the Brooklyn Public Library system.

Brooklyn Librarian Becomes Unlikely Star With Her Bilingual Story Time

9:00am February 28, 2021

by Sally Herships

The pandemic has yielded a silver lining for the Brooklyn Public Library. Tenzin Kalsang's Tibetan story time has been drawing audiences in the tens of thousands.