Joy Harjo Gets A Second Term As U.S. Poet Laureate
Joy Harjo, the nation's first Native American to serve as Poet Laureate, was appointed to a second term by Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden.
Books
Medical Historian Says Pandemics Are 'Looking Glasses' For Societies
Frank Snowden, author of the book, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present, describes how pandemics stretching back centuries and our responses to them have shaped history.
'Normal People' Is A Love Story To Cherish
The Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel is gently romantic, wise and sometimes sad, and made with the care that an adaptation of a beloved book deserves.
This Is 'Creepy': Lawrence Wright Wishes His Pandemic Novel Had Gotten It Wrong
The End of October is about a mysterious virus that starts in Asia, sweeps across continents, cripples the health care system, wrecks the economy, and kills people worldwide.
A 'Home Baked' Childhood: When The Family Business Is Marijuana Brownies
Growing up in San Francisco in the '70s, Alia Volz's family ran a booming weed-laced brownie business. "I had this understanding of my family as an outlaw family from the very beginning," she says.
'Sigh, Gone' Is A Refugee's Chaotic Memoir Of Displacement And Belonging
Phuc Tran was a toddler in 1975 when his family fled Vietnam and landed in a small town in Pennsylvania. His memoir is a scrambled story of great books and punk rock.
Coronavirus Reading: Jia Tolentino Suggests A Book
The quarantine has given people an opportunity to catch up on their readings. The New Yorker's Jia Tolentino is using this time to read Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
American Poet Leah Naomi Green Releases Her First Book
Leah Naomi Green is the 2019 winner of the Walt Whitman Award by the Academy of American Poets. Part of the honor is getting her first book published. The More Extravagant Feast came out on April 7.
'A Poet Is Quite Prepared For A Pandemic,' Says 'Ledger' Author Jane Hirshfield
National Book Award finalist Jane Hirshfield helps us close the book on National Poetry Month by reading her favorite listener-submitted Twitter poems.
A Little Girl Didn't Like Her 'Bedtime Bonnet,' So Mom Wrote A Book To Help
When Nancy Redd was a kid, she was embarrassed by the bonnet she wore over her hair every night. "I didn't want my daughter growing up with that same shame," she says.