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C.L. Miller on her debut mystery novel and growing up in the antiques business

8:59am February 03, 2024

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks with C. L. Miller about her debut mystery set in the English countryside. Its title is "The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder."

Emily Nagoski wrote a guide on finding lasting intimacy — and helped her own marriage

5:09pm January 30, 2024

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with sex educator Emily Nagoski about her new book Come Together, and advice for partners to begin what can sometimes be intimidating conversations about sex.

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How Narcotics have shaped everything for the Wa, an ethnic minority in Myanmar

5:11am January 30, 2024

The U.S. has had a profound impact on Myanmar's Wa people. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Patrick Winn about his new book, Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA.

New book finds Trump's plot to overturn 2020 election 'crazier than anybody imagined'

5:44pm January 29, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with journalists Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman about their new book, Find Me The Votes.

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Crownsville patients work in the hospital's fields in the 1910s.

What a Jim Crow-era asylum can teach us about mental health today

1:58pm January 29, 2024

by Tonya Mosley

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness.

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Buffalo Fluffalo, written by Bess Kalb and illustrated by Erin Kraan.

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'Buffalo Fluffalo' has had enuffalo in this kids' bookalo

4:07pm January 28, 2024

by Samantha Balaban

'Buffalo Fluffalo' may seem big and intimidating, but it's all puffery. He really just needs some snuggalos from his friends in this rhyming book from author Bess Kalb and illustrator Erin Kraan.

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Ai Weiwei's graphic memoir uses the animals of the Chinese zodiac to tell his story

7:54am January 27, 2024

by Scott Simon

In a new graphic memoir, "Zodiac," artist and activist Ai Weiwei uses the animals of the Chinese zodiac to tell his life story.

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'Hard by a Great Forest' traces a family's journey back to a land they fleed

7:54am January 27, 2024

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon asks Leo Vardiashvili about "Hard by a Great Forest," his novel about fleeing civil war in post-Soviet Georgia and returning to track down loved ones.

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Award-winning poet Kwame Alexander talks about Black writers who inspired him

5:16am January 26, 2024

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kwame Alexander about This Is The Honey — an anthology of contemporary Black poets that he curated.

Talking Millennial stereotypes and a misunderstood generation of women

4:36pm January 24, 2024

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Kate Kennedy, author of One in a Millennial: On Friendships, Feelings, Fangirls and Fitting In, which explores the experience of being a millennial woman.