'This Machine Kills Fascists': Politics And Music With Billy Bragg
The singer-songwriter is used to speaking and singing out against the rise of authoritarianism.
Books
'The Undying' Catalogs The Unceasing Losses Of A Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Arriving the year before an election that could set healthcare and disability policy for decades, Anne Boyer's memoir warns us of the human costs of any system that prioritizes profit over lives.
'Second Founding' Examines How Reconstruction Remade The Constitution
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner talks how the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments relate to current debates about voting rights, mass incarceration and reparations for slavery.
'Red At The Bone' Cuts Close To The Bone
Jacqueline Woodson's exquisitely wrought new novel follows two black families of different classes whose lives become intertwined when their only children conceive a child together in their teens.
Attica Locke's Latest, 'Heaven, My Home,' Explores Race And Forgiveness
NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with author Attica Locke about her latest book: Heaven, My Home. The story picks up with Darren Matthews, the same protagonist from her previous novel Bluebird, Bluebird.
Investors Are On Edge After Drone Attack Hits Saudi-Owned Aramco
NPR's Noel King talks to Ellen Wald, author of Saudi, Inc., which explores Aramco and the history of the Saudi energy industry. Before the weekend drone attack, bankers were working on Aramco's IPO.
Amitav Ghosh: 'The World Of Fact Is Outrunning The World Of Fiction'
Ghosh's latest book, Gun Island, is a modern retelling of a Bengali myth. He believes old legends have a lot to teach us about how to think about the catastrophic effects of climate change.
Reporters Dig Into Justice Kavanaugh's Past, Allegations Of Misconduct Against Him
A new book by The New York Times' Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly extends the investigation into the SCOTUS justice's history, chases down sexual misconduct allegations and considers his years since.
In 'Wildhood,' Scientists See Similarities In Adolescent Humans And Other Animals
Understanding the lives of animals can illuminate our own — and those of loved adolescents too. But authors Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers at times push cross-species links too far.
3 Crackling Young Adult Reads To Welcome Fall
Time to put down the beach reads and pick up some substantive, immersive new young adult books — from a monstrous fantasy, to a refugee's tale, to a story that brings new meaning to haunted houses.