Author Of 'Men Explain Things To Me' Has A New Memoir
NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with essayist Rebecca Solnit about her latest book: Recollections of My Nonexistence.
Books
A History Book That Isn't: Finding A Way To Teach Racism To A New Generation
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi team up to investigate the history of racist ideas through a narrative that's aimed at young adult readers. It's called: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You.
Behold: The Magic Of Take Your Child To Work Night
As a kid, Helena Ku Rhee used to tag along with her parents as they cleaned law offices overnight. She's now a lawyer herself, and has written The Paper Kingdom, about a boy and his janitor parents.
'The Plot Against America' Asks: What If The U.S. Had Sided With The Nazis?
David Bianculli reviews HBO's new miniseries, which imagines that Charles Lindbergh became president in 1940. And we listen back to a 2004 with Philip Roth, who wrote the novel the series is based on.
In 'Plot Against America,' David Simon Finds Present Day In An Imagined Past
Simon has adapted Philip Roth's 2004 novel, about aviation legend Charles Lindbergh being elected president. "It's startling how allegorical it is to our current political moment," he says.
This Young Chess Champion Is 'Not Scared Of Anything On That Board'
Tani Adewumi's family fled Nigeria after being threatened by Boko Haram. They were living in a homeless shelter when Tani won the primary division at the New York State Scholastic Chess Championship.
In 'Recollections Of My Nonexistence,' Rebecca Solnit Once Again Tackles Gender Bias
"[P]erhaps the best thing creative work can do is to compost into the soil so that, unremembered, it becomes the food of a new era, or rather, devoured, digested, the very consciousness of that era."
Too Busy? Make Time To 'Do Nothing'
As many Americans start thinking about what a self-quarantine might look like, author Celeste Headlee has some advice: Put down your phone. Her book explains how we're "overdoing and underliving."
A Native American Woman's Search For Truth In 'Yellow Bird'
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with journalist Sierra Crane Murdoch about her new book Yellow Bird. It follows the story of a Native American woman and her quest to find a missing oil worker.
Remembering Barbara Neely, A Pioneer In Crime Fiction
Author Barbara Neely died last week at 78. Neely was a trailblazer for black women in crime fiction, and her books used the mystery genre to call attention to issues of race, class and gender.