CNN's Don Lemon Gets Personal In New Book 'This Is The Fire'
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to CNN anchor Don Lemon about his new book, This is the Fire — What I say To My Friends About Racism.
Author Interviews
'Silence Is A Sense' Works To Dispel The Terrible Abstractions Of Syria's Civil War
Layla Alammar's new novel is about a journalist who's fled the Syrian civil war for a new life in London — but can only tell anonymous stories about her neighbors because trauma has left her silent.
Immigration Is An Ongoing Process In Patricia Engel's 'Infinite Country'
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Patricia Engel about her new novel, Infinite Country, about a family with one foot in Colombia and one in the U.S.
'Wilmington's Lie' Author Traces The Rise Of White Supremacy In A Southern City
David Zucchino says Wilmington, N.C., was once a mixed-race community with a thriving Black middle class. Then, in 1898, white supremacists staged a murderous coup. Originally broadcast Jan. 13, 2020.
'Useful Delusions' Examines How Beliefs Can Be Powerful In Positive And Negative Ways
In a new book, former NPR reporter Shankar Vedantam suggests attaining "a deeper psychological understanding of why people believe what they believe," being empathetic and considering costs involved.
From SNL To SpongeBob, Laraine Newman Chronicles 'Interesting Times'
Newman was a founding member of the improv group The Groundlings and an original Saturday Night Live cast member. She's voiced dozens of animated characters and has just published a new audio memoir.
Books Hold The Key To 'The Postscript Murders'
The woman who turns up dead at the start of Elly Griffiths' new novel billed herself as a "murder consultant" for writers. Griffiths says she was inspired by her aunt, who enjoys thinking up murders.
In 'The Empathy Diaries,' Sherry Turkle Considers The Burden Of Family Secrets
MIT professor Sherry Turkle was 27 when she learned that her estranged father had conducted psychological experiments on her when she was a child. She looks back on her childhood in a new memoir.
'The Ghost Variations': A Different Take On What It Means To Be Haunted
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Kevin Brockmeier about The Ghost Variations, a collection of 100 ghost stories that ponders what haunts us in this life and might make us linger in the next.
Inside The Fight For The Right To Die: Logistical And Ethical Challenges
Katie Engelhart explores the complexity of physician-assisted death in the book The Inevitable. She says patients seeking to end their own lives sometimes resort to veterinary drugs from overseas.