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'Coyote Doggirl' Is A Childlike Western With Hidden Depths

2:01pm August 21, 2018

by Etelka Lehoczky

Artist Lisa Hanawalt creates kids' stories for grownups, both on TV — she's the production designer for BoJack Horseman — and in her new book Coyote Doggirl, a candy-colored Western saga.

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'Sight' Is A Penetrating Vision Of Motherhood, Science And More

10:00am August 21, 2018

by Heller McAlpin

Jessie Greengrass' novel is packed with shimmering sentences and poetic paragraphs from a narrator who's never content to drift along, but must probe "the convoluted crenellations of the mind."

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Witty, Imaginative, Risky And Relentless — 'Flights' Soars

3:32pm August 20, 2018

by John Powers

Olga Tokarczuk's book won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Critic John Powers says the hard-to-classify work is positively exploding with maps, remembrances, riffs, history and more.

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Enter The Crypt, Tomb, Vault, Coffin (And More) Of Horror Comics

11:51am August 20, 2018

by Stephen Graham Jones

Horror comics enjoyed a golden age in the 1940s and '50s, before people got scared about kids reading gore and terror — but they never went away entirely, and now there's a new generation of scares.

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Once 'Ball Lightning' Gets Rolling, This Sci-Fi Mind-Bender Shines

10:00am August 19, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The novel is Chinese writer Cixin Liu's first in English since his "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy. And that series' radical creativity returns in this tale of scientific striving — eventually.

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Ada Limon On Poetry Collection, 'The Carrying'

7:57am August 19, 2018

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Ada Limon about The Carrying, Limon's fifth collection of poetry.

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Taking Down America's First Organized Crime Ring

7:57am August 19, 2018

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with William Oldfield. His book, Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society, is about his great-grandfather's work helping take down an infamous extortion ring.

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In 'Severance,' The World Ends Not With A Bang, But A Memo

7:00am August 19, 2018

by Michael Schaub

Ling Ma's shocking and ferocious new novel mashes up a zombie apocalypse story with the everyday tribulations of office life — you may run from zombies but you'll never escape middle management.

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3 Sweet Reads For August's Hot Days

10:00am August 18, 2018

by Maya Rodale

We're sweating toward the end of summer, and that calls for a romance binge. This month, we've got some suspense, a road trip — destination love — and a gritty look at Regency England.

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Robin DiAngelo On White People's 'Fragility'

8:27am August 18, 2018

NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks to author Robin DiAngelo about her latest book, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism.