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Jo Nesbo Gives 'Macbeth' A Gritty, Action-Packed Update

2:29pm April 12, 2018

by Bethanne Patrick

The latest installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare series sees crime novelist Nesbo taking on the Scottish Play in an adaptation that comes alive the farther he strays from Shakespeare's original.

How Globalized Capitalism Drives Worldwide Fear And Discontentment

1:53pm April 11, 2018

by Terry Gross

Author Robert Kuttner says the decline of social contracts in Western democracies has led to the rise of right-wing populism. His new book is Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?

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Meg Wolitzer Traces The Arc Of The Feminist Movement In 'The Female Persuasion'

11:54am April 11, 2018

by Maureen Corrigan

Wolitzer's new novel centers on a legendary feminist and the young woman whose life she transforms. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls The Female Persuasion an absorbing and compelling work.

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'Circe' Gives The Witch Of The Odyssey A New Life

7:13am April 11, 2018

by Annalisa Quinn

Madeleine Miller's lush, gold-lit new novel is told from the perspective of Circe, the sorceress whose brief appearance in the Odyssey becomes just one moment in a longer, more complex life.

Aspen finalists: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward; What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah; Exit West by Mohsin Hamid; Mad Country by Samrat Upadhyay; What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons

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Mohsin Hamid's 'Exit West' Wins First-Ever Aspen Words Literary Prize

8:50pm April 10, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

His magical realist novel on the lives of refugees "hints at possibilities for doing better," judges said. And it won him the prize, which recognizes fiction tackling today's thorniest social issues.

Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

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'Heads Of The Colored People' Takes On The Pressures Of Being 'The Only One'

5:21pm April 10, 2018

by Audie Cornish

Nafissa Thompson-Spires' new story collection is full of characters coping with being not just black in a white world — but the only black person in their worlds. She says that's a hard role to fill.

The photographs in Museum Bhavan, including this one, are drawn from across Singh's career.

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This Photographer Wants To Put A Museum In Your Pocket

4:44pm April 10, 2018

by Bilal Qureshi

When Dayanita Singh grew frustrated with the conventional gallery format, she created Museum Bhavan, an exhibition of almost 300 photos housed in a small box.

Chrissy Metz plays Kate on the NBC's This Is Us.

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'This Is Us' Star Chrissy Metz Retraces Her Journey From Agent To Actress

9:10am April 10, 2018

Metz worked as an agent for years before her acting career finally took off. She says, "It was like watching your boyfriend take another woman out every day."

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'Sharp' Is A Dinner Party You Want To Be At

7:00am April 10, 2018

by Heller McAlpin

Michelle Dean's new compendium of outspoken women is as stimulating and insightful as its roster of guests — ten writers, from Dorothy Parker to Pauline Kael, who pulled no punches on the page.

detail to cover of Varina by Charles Frazier

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In 'Varina,' A Confederate Contemplates Her Complicity

5:05am April 10, 2018

by Steve Inskeep

Charles Frazier was done writing about the Civil War after his award-winning novel Cold Mountain. Then he discovered the true story of the first lady of the Confederacy.

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