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Floating Prison Drones Equal Menace In 'The Furnace'

7:00am July 11, 2018

by Etelka Lehoczky

Prentis Rollins' new graphic novel is set in a near future where the government uses drone-powered mobile invisibility fields to control its prisoners, keeping them out of sight and incommunicado.

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Dallek's FDR Book Invites Comparisons To Trump's Presidency

6:29am July 11, 2018

Presidential historian Robert Dallek, author of, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, talks to Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep about the parallels between the presidencies of FDR and Donald Trump.

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June (Elisabeth Moss) faces big changes in the season finale of The Handmaid's Tale.

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The Truck, The Choice And The 'Handmaid's Tale' Finale

5:00am July 11, 2018

by Linda Holmes

The second season finale of The Handmaid's Tale was released on Wednesday, and it brought some truths about the series into sharp focus.

By some accounts, almost half of the incarcerated population in the U.S. suffers from mental illness.

Behind Bars, Mentally Ill Inmates Are Often Punished For Their Symptoms

2:19pm July 10, 2018

by Dave Davies

While visiting jails and prisons across the country, author Alisa Roth witnessed mentally ill inmates in solitary confinement, wearing restrictive jumpsuits and receiving very limited therapy.

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Ottessa Moshfegh's book My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

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Daring New Novel Fetishizes A Desperate Desire For Sleep

1:34pm July 10, 2018

by Maureen Corrigan

Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation centers on a miserable young woman who believes that if she could only sleep long enough, she'd wake up refreshed and free of existential pain.

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New Kids' Books Put A Human Face On The Refugee Crisis

12:42pm July 10, 2018

by Deborah Amos

In classrooms and at home, kids are reading a new genre of books about a timely topic: refugees. They're selling well and providing a sympathetic view of people often portrayed as threats.

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh

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'Rest And Relaxation' Is As Sharp As Its Heroine Is Bleary

7:00am July 10, 2018

by Heller McAlpin

Ottessa Moshfegh's bizarrely fascinating new novel follows a young woman in Manhattan who decides to sleep her life away with a combination of pills, waking occasionally for bad bodega coffee.

Author James Crabtree On India's Growing Income Divide And 'The Billionaire Raj'

5:01pm July 09, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author James Crabtree about his book The Billionaire Raj. The book talks about the growth of super-wealthy Indians and why there are so many.

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The Science — And Environmental Hazards — Behind Fish Oil Supplements

1:37pm July 09, 2018

by Terry Gross

Author Paul Greenberg says the harvesting of tiny fish for omega-3 supplements is having a ripple effect, leading to less healthy and bountiful oceans. His new book is The Omega Principle.

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For July, 3 Romantic Reads That Prove Summer Is For Lovers

10:00am July 08, 2018

by Maya Rodale

Whether you like high-powered lawyers, ambitious politicians or petticoat-wearing paleontologists, July brings a bumper crop of romance novels, for all your happy-ever-after needs.