Author Interviews

Cover of In the Country of Others and author Leila Slimani.

Walking Through "The Country Of Others"

by Leah Donnella

In her new novel, In the Country of Others, Leila Slimani explores what it means to be an outsider. Her characters fight to establish their own identities while their country, Morocco, does the same.
The cover of Bethany C. Morrow's new book, So Many Beginnings.

Little Women Remixed, But Not Reimagined

by Karen Grigsby Bates

When Bethany Morrow was asked to write a new take on the beloved classic, she agreed on one condition: The new March family would look nothing like the old.

Nigella Lawson On How To Find Peace While Cooking

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with cookbook writer Nigella Lawson about her latest book Cook, Eat, Repeat and how to stop viewing cooking as tedious and, instead, find peace in the kitchen.