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Deb Haaland on 'A Voice Like Mine' and her candidacy for governor of New Mexico
Jul 23, 20267 min
'The Delivery' is a horror novella about a family's mysterious AI assistant
Jul 22, 20268 min
Barstool Sports' Dave Portnoy on why he "stays up at night" worrying about politics
Jul 21, 20267 min
In Celeste Ng’s new novel 'Our Missing Hearts,' a boy searches for his missing mother
Jul 20, 202610 min
'The Shampoo Effect,' 'The Revelation of Dionne Daphne' are marked by big surprises
Jul 17, 202616 min
Mary Beard's 'Talking Classics' examines our obsession with the ancient world
Jul 16, 20267 min
Artist and activist Ai Weiwei on political censorship in the West
Jul 15, 202611 min
Mike Pence's 'What Conservatives Believe' critiques the second Trump administration
Jul 14, 20267 min
Jonathan Jakubowicz says he wanted to write a book Venezuelans couldn't resist
Jul 13, 20268 min
'Kin' and 'When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky' fictionalize the Jim Crow South
Jul 10, 202618 min
Eddie Glaude on the tension at the center of America's milestone birthdays
Jul 9, 202611 min
Revisiting the story of the American Revolution with Rick Atkinson
Jul 8, 20269 min
'America's Founding Son' documents John Quincy Adams' influential post-presidency
Jul 7, 20267 min
Norah O'Donnell’s 'We the Women' pays tribute to U.S. history's female heroes
Jul 6, 20268 min
What to read this summer, according to our NPR colleagues
Jul 3, 20267 min
Judy Blume says she doesn't miss writing … but she’s very glad she wrote
Jul 2, 202613 min
In 'Names Have Been Changed,' a criminal on the run confesses her story on a podcast
Jul 1, 20268 min
A new book argues Elon Musk is the architect of a new world view
Jun 30, 20267 min
Tom Perrotta’s novel 'Ghost Town' revisits a New Jersey childhood from a bygone era
Jun 29, 202610 min
New biographies recount how The Rolling Stones and Soundgarden changed rock music
Jun 26, 202619 min
Laverne Cox on her childhood, 'Walden' and her new memoir 'Transcendent'
Jun 25, 20269 min
In 'The Jellyfish Problem,' an introverted scientist is called in to help an island
Jun 24, 20266 min
Sen. Chris Murphy wants the left and right to fix the country’s 'spiritual rot'
Jun 23, 20268 min
In 'Contrapposto,' the meaning of love and the meaning of art go hand-in-hand
Jun 22, 20268 min
Two romance books give opposite takes on love, relationships and the absence of both
Jun 19, 202620 min
In 'Stolen Revolution,' six Iranians share perspectives on modern Iran and its future
Jun 18, 20268 min
'The Yahoo Boys' investigates Nigeria’s network of cyber crime 'sweetheart scams'
Jun 17, 20269 min
R.F. Kuang says there’s 'quite a lot' of herself in 'Katabasis' protagonist Alice
Jun 16, 20269 min
Theo Baker delves into power and corruption at Stanford in 'How to Rule the World'
Jun 15, 20267 min
Ann Patchett’s 'Whistler' and 'Tom Lake' are novels written with love in mind
Jun 12, 202617 min
'A Pair of Aces' is about two women who face down the mob in 1930s New York
Jun 11, 20268 min
In 'Keeper of My Kin,' Ada Ferrer struggles with being her mother's "chosen one"
Jun 10, 20268 min
Maggie O'Farrell's novel 'Land' takes readers to a famine-ravaged yet resilient Ireland
Jun 9, 20268 min
In 'View From the East Wing,' Jill Biden reflects on the debate that changed history
Jun 8, 20268 min
Two new books ask: What would you do if you encountered alien life?
Jun 5, 202617 min
'Big Fan' investigates fandom from darts and football to Taylor Swift
Jun 4, 20269 min
Ben Crump says 'Worse Than a Lie' is a legal thriller wrapped in Black culture
Jun 3, 20269 min
In 'Mother Tongue,' author Sara Nović examines deaf history, and writes her own
Jun 2, 20269 min
ABC News' Martha Raddatz on 'The Hero Next Door,' her collection of veterans’ stories
Jun 1, 20267 min
Two new books about writing break down the creative process
May 29, 202616 min
In 'The Foursome,' conjoined twins marry two sisters — and that’s just the beginning
May 28, 20269 min
'Cherry Baby' holds a mirror to its main character - and to the GLP-1 industry itself
May 27, 202610 min
'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' chronicles the history of the Jewish Labor Bund
May 26, 20267 min
'A Perfect Hand' is a romp through 19th-century England, with a suffragist twist
May 25, 20269 min
Two new murder mysteries cleverly explore the meta — in two very different ways
May 22, 202617 min
In 'Backtalker,' Kimberlé Crenshaw turns from political theory to personal memoir
May 21, 20267 min
In 'Homebound,' an epic journey through multiverses begins with a single video game
May 20, 20268 min
'The People Can Fly' examines the history of Black prodigies from poets to professors
May 19, 20267 min
Revisiting 'Whalefall,' the underwater thriller from Pulitzer winner Daniel Kraus
May 18, 202610 min
Two new books approach running from different angles
May 15, 202615 min