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Author Emma Straub has written a book about family dynamics and the mess and love that comes with th
Bonnie Garmus' novel Lessons in Chemistry got a lot of buzz when it was first released in 2022. Eliz
Today on the show, two new books take different routes to humor. First, writer Damon Young is out wi
In 1483, a 10-year-old peasant named John Collan is visited by a stranger who shares a life-changing
In his new book, The Science of Revenge, James Kimmel Jr. argues that there is a human desire to get
Smith – the protagonist in Great Black Hope – is at a party in the Hamptons when he's arrested for c
Historian Augustine Sedgewick became a father in the summer of 2017. At the time, media events like
Carl Hiaasen and John Seabrook are out with new books that draw from their personal experiences in o
Following Donald Trump's election in 2016, New Yorker reporter Evan Osnos wanted to understand what
By the early 2000s, only a handful of queer female characters had ever been featured on television.
Joan Goodwin, an astronomer who has been in love with the stars since childhood, learns one day in 1
In 2017, Jacinda Ardern was sitting in a bathroom waiting to learn two things: whether she was going
Writer and professor Melissa Febos had been in a series of consecutive relationships for decades. Th
A 10-year-old girl, Louisa, and her father take a walk on breakwater in Japan, where her family is l
The North American prairie is home to bison, elk, wolves and bald eagles – and it's disappearing at
Yrsa Daley-Ward's new novel The Catch has a mind-bending premise. Clara and Dempsey are twin sisters
It took author Madeleine Thien nearly a decade to write her new novel The Book of Records. In the st
New novels by Sara Hamdan and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas follow women in the entertainment industry who
Jeffrey Seller says he found his home on stage from an early age. He grew up in the suburbs of Detro
The year 1963 was a landmark one for the civil rights movement – and it's the subject of Peniel Jose
