Books We Love: Ari Shapiro picks 'Build Your House Around My Body'
The 2021 NPR Books We Love list is here. NPR's Ari Shapiro shares one of his favorite books from this year, Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith.
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Here are the Books We Love: 360+ great 2021 reads recommended by NPR
Books We Love (formerly known as NPR's Book Concierge) is back with a new name and 360+ new books handpicked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
NPR's Book Concierge returns with a new name, a new look and new books
NPR's end of the year picks are collected in a recommendation tool we're calling: Books We Love. It's more than just a list of the year's best books.
Ann Patchett on the friendship that came from quarantining with Tom Hanks' assistant
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Ann Patchett about her latest collection of essays, These Precious Days, and how she ended up quarantining with Tom Hanks' personal assistant.
A new book details the rise of Home Box Office since the channel debuted in 1972
James Andrew Miller's new book, Tinderbox, tells the history of HBO starting with its 1972 debut. HBO succeeded as a cable channel revolutionizing TV by airing programs most outlets wouldn't touch.
These 5 cookbooks help keep Thanksgiving simple — and focused on family
For many, Thanksgiving will be the first holiday where family gathers since the start of the pandemic. We offer some cookbooks that aim to keep meal prep easy, so there's more time for loved ones.
Ann Patchett reflects on love and relationships in new essay collection
Even when nominally about something else, the essays in These Precious Days are about the weight and grief of relationships. "I was asking what mattered most in this precarious and precious life."
The white ghosts haunting Native Americans in 'The Sentence'
Louise Erdrich's novel turns the trope of the haunted Indian burial ground on its head with the story of a Native-run bookstore being visited by the ghost of a white woman obsessed with indigeneity.
Dave Eggers' new book depicts a dystopian future and an all-powerful tech giant
NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with author Dave Eggers about his new book, The Every, a dystopian look at the near-future when one massive company controls just about everything.
Poet Robert Bly, anti-war activist and 'men's movement' leader, dies at 94
Bly won a National Book Award and was a tireless advocate for poetry. But he knew he could rub people the wrong way. "I do remember people wanting to kill me," he said, "but that's not unusual."