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'Home Is Not A Country' Imagines The Lives We Could Have Led

7:00am March 04, 2021

by Nayantara Dutta

Safia Elhillo's novel follows a first-generation Muslim American girl who, bullied at school, longs for the homeland she's never really known and the alter ego who represents a more confident self.

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'Klara And The Sun' Is A Masterpiece About Life, Love And Mortality

9:41am March 03, 2021

by Maureen Corrigan

Narrated by a robotic "artificial friend," Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel offers readers a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.

Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions, by Michael Moss

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There Are So Many Flavors Of Potato Chips; 'Hooked' Looks At Why

7:55am March 03, 2021

by Barbara J. King

Investigative reporter Michael Moss explores how some food companies tweak their products to take advantage of evolved biology, creating room for novelty that triggers the brain to make us want more.

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Looking Again At A Doctor's Old Rhymes, Seuss Works Haven't Kept Up With The Times

5:20pm March 02, 2021

by Neda Ulaby

Dr. Seuss Enterprises has announced it will end publication of six titles deemed to contain racist imagery. The books include And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo.

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How Bellingcat's Online Sleuths Solve Global Crimes Using Open Source Info

1:31pm March 02, 2021

by Terry Gross

Eliot Higgins is the founder of an online collective that picks apart conspiracy theories and investigates war crimes and hate crimes using clues from the Internet. His new book is We Are Bellingcat.

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Britain's MI5 Spy Agency Proves More Comic Than Tragic In 'Slough House'

11:06am March 02, 2021

by John Powers

Mick Herron's brilliantly plotted series follows a group of maladroit MI5 agents who've somehow blown it with the agency. The latest installment is a timely novel set in a post-Brexit U.K.

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Dr. Seuss is seen here in his La Jolla, Calif., home in 1957.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises Will Shelve 6 Books, Citing 'Hurtful' Portrayals

11:02am March 02, 2021

by Bill Chappell

The decision includes books such as And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo. They have been criticized for how they depict Asian and Black people.

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'Machinehood' Upgrades Asimov's 3 Laws Of Robotics

10:00am March 02, 2021

by Fran Wilde

S.B. Divya's debut novel does what the best science fiction does — establishes a future that's relatable, plausible, and infinitely strange, where implants and wearable tech help humans survive.

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'Klara And The Sun' Asks What It Means To Be Human

8:25am March 02, 2021

by Annalisa Quinn

Kazuo Ishiguro's lovely, mournful new novel is set in a world where children can have android companions, known as Artificial Friends — but can those artificial friends ever replace the children?

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NPR Podcast Hosts' New Book: 'The How And The Wow Of The Human Body'

6:30am March 02, 2021

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to two people who know a lot about channeling kids' curiosity and wonder. Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas — hosts of the NPR podcast Wow in the World — about their children's book.

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