Books
'My Year Abroad' Is A Fun Excursion — Just A Little Light On Substance
Chang-rae Lee's new novel follows an aimless college student on his year overseas, taking readers from the New Jersey suburbs into some of the more luxurious reaches of Asian megacities.
Surveillance And Local Police: How Technology Is Evolving Faster Than Regulation
Journalist Jon Fasman says local police are frequently able to access very powerful surveillance tools with little oversight. He writes about the threat to privacy in We See It All.
He Saved 669 Children From Nazis — A New Book Tells His Story To Kids
In Nicky & Vera, Peter Sís chronicles the work of Nicholas Winton, who helped hundreds of kids escape Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939.
Janice Nimura On Telling The Story Of The First Women Medical Doctors
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Janice Nimura about her new book, The Doctors Blackwell, which tells the story of two of the first women medical doctors, sisters Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell.
Joan Didion's 'Let Me Tell You What I Mean' Offers Plenty Of 'Journalistic Gold'
What's particularly salient in this book of previously uncollected essays is Didion's trademark farsightedness — especially striking decades later. But it does leave one wishing to hear from her now.
'We Need To Hang Out' Aims To Remedy Struggles Some People Have To Connect
Studies have shown men have trouble maintaining close friendships, and that has detrimental effects. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Boston Globe reporter Billy Baker about his book: We Need to Hang Out.
A Writer Lost His Singing Voice, Then Discovered The 'Gymnastics' Of Speech
New Yorker writer John Colapinto developed a vocal polyp when he began "wailing" with a rock group without proper warmup. His new book explores the human voice's physicality, frailty and feats .
New Book Features Work Of NPR Photographer Killed On Assignment In Afghanistan
NPR photographer David Gilkey was killed in Afghanistan while on assignment in June 2016. A new book, Pictures on the Radio, collects some of his most vivid images in one place for the first time.
Charles Blow's 'The Devil You Know' Is A Black Power Manifesto For Our Time
Blow's book is a call to action for Black Americans to reconsider their Great Migration North and imagine new possibilities of Black political might.