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A New David Brooks Article Takes A Look At How The Cultural Elite Broke America

12:02pm August 08, 2021

Who is responsible for society's ills? Writer David Brooks thinks he has the answer. Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with him about his recent column in The Atlantic, How The Bobos Broke America.

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These Are The Best Summer Reads For The Romantic At Heart

7:56am August 08, 2021

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with author Jasmine Guillory about the best romance reads of the summer.

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In 'Like Other Girls,' You Can Be — And Play — Whatever You Want. Even Football.

5:00am August 08, 2021

by Alethea Kontis

Britta Lundin's Like Other Girls follows Mara, a hot-tempered 6'2" high school sports star who's booted from basketball for brawling, but finds a new life and a new way of being on the football field.

A composite of book covers showing: Dream Girl by Laura Lippman, Death of a Showman by Mariah Fredericks, The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald, and A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole.

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Here Are 4 Fabulous Beach Reads — Whether You're On A Beach Or Not

8:01am August 07, 2021

by Scott Simon

Late summer is the time to lose yourself in novels, so we asked author (and Key West resident) Meg Cabot to share a few of her favorite books to while away the hours on the water.

Savage Tongues, by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

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A Novel That Invokes History — But Can't Quite Define It

5:00am August 07, 2021

by Kamil Ahsan

In Savage Tongues, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi gives us a protagonist who speaks often of history and how it's affected her — but what, exactly, is "history" to her? Readers will be left wondering.

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'Fallout' Tells The Story Of The Journalist Who Exposed The 'Hiroshima Cover-Up'

1:40pm August 06, 2021

by Dave Davies

Lesley M.M. Blume's book tells the story of John Hersey, whose on-the-ground reporting in Hiroshima, Japan, exposed the world to the devastation of nuclear weapons. Originally broadcast Aug. 19, 2020.

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Romance Writers Of America Was Doing Better With Race — Until A Recent Award Choice

5:35pm August 05, 2021

by Karen Grigsby Bates

After a racism controversy, the national trade organization for romance writers had been making progress. Then, they gave a major prize to a book whose hero murdered Native Americans at Wounded Knee.

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A Farmer Offers A Stark Time-Lapse Portrait Of His Family's Land Over A Lifetime

11:25am August 05, 2021

by Heller McAlpin

James Rebanks' new book Pastoral Song urgently conveys how the drive for cheap, mass-produced food has impoverished both small farmers and the soil, threatening humanity's future.

Waiting for the Waters to Rise, by Maryse Condé

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Having A Conversation With Loss And Grief In 'Waiting For The Waters To Rise'

7:00am August 05, 2021

by Gabino Iglesias

Maryse Condé's new novel follws a lonely man, an obstetrician who adopts an orphaned baby girl and tries to find her family — it's an examination of loss and grief on a personal and national level.

Osama bin Laden is seen at an undisclosed location in a television image broadcast on Oct. 7, 2001.

Osama Bin Laden Biography Goes Inside Al-Qaida Leader's Final Hideout

4:34pm August 04, 2021

by Dave Davies

Journalist Peter Bergen visited bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, before it was demolished. His new book, The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, draws on materials seized in the raid.

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