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Today's episode features two interviews with author Morgan Talty. First, a conversation with NPR's M

In the 1840s, a Scottish minister named John Ferguson accepts the task of traveling to a remote isla

Eight translators from eight countries travel to a Polish forest to begin adapting famed author Iren

Memory Piece, the latest novel from National Book Award finalist Lisa Ko, kicks off in the 1980s wit

The story of Saba, the protagonist of Leo Vardiashvili's novel Hard by a Great Forest, is much like

Today's episode is all about what it means to "make it" – and why there's no one path to success. Fi

Once upon a time, author Porochista Khakpour worked as a shop girl in the luxury stores lining Rodeo

After riding out the first year of the pandemic alone in her small studio apartment in New York City

In the new novel One of Our Kind, Jasmyn Williams moves her family to the planned Black utopia of Li

At the height of the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef a few weeks back, Questlove took to Instagram to

Today's episode highlights two books that grapple with hardships – and perseverance — within a famil

Comedian, TV writer and podcast host Chelsea Devantez moved around a lot as a kid. She jokes in toda

You Like It Darker is a new collection of short stories by Stephen King — and as the author tells NP

Harriet Jacobs is one of the best-known female abolitionists and authors who wrote about their exper

The Mango Tree kicks off with a phone call: Journalist Annabelle Tometich is informed her mom has be

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón recently edited and introduced You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural Worl

Marcela Fuentes' debut novel, Malas, is set in a small town nestled on the border between Texas and

Jin Han, the narrator of R.O. Kwon's Exhibit, is a photographer going through it – both with her wor

Before she founded the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s, Kathleen Hanna was a teenager volunteering

There's a lot of tragedy that goes into watching your home erupt into a battlefield. But journalist