Books

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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Sarvat Hasin about her new novel Strange Girls and the complexities of friendship.

In this charming TV series, Kevin Kline plays a Shakespearean actor who retreats to his small hometown after a crisis, and gets engaged in an effort to save the local theater.

As a culture critic, Lemieux has spent years pushing back against the stereotypes and stigma that follow single mothers. Her new book blends her own memoir with the stories of 21 other Black women.

In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

The definition of what it means to be a U.S. citizen has evolved both legally and socially -- a new book looks at who gets to claim citizenship.

Three women survived marriages to serial killers and use their experience to catch one. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Elizabeth Arnott about her new novel, "The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives."

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Gin Phillips about "Ruby Falls." Her new novel begins in 1928 Chattanooga when a man discovers a mysterious underground cavern with a massive waterfall.

Affleck's company helps filmmakers build their own AI models that take care of time-intensive details.

The gold medal-winning figure skater came to the Milano Cortina winter games with a distinctive "raccoon" hairstyle — alternating rings of dark and light hair. Now, fans are following her lead.