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Author Amy Tan spends hours in her backyard, watching and drawing birds go about their business. Her
Two childhood best friends realize they're in love and break up with their significant others to be
Middle school can be a rough time no matter what. But for Isaiah, the eighth grader at the heart of
Reporter David Sanger has covered five American presidents for The New York Times. But in today's ep
In 2022, the author Salman Rushdie was onstage at a public event when a man ran up and stabbed him.
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Scout Bassett is a gold medalist runner – but it was a long road to get there. In her new memoir, Lu
In the 1840s, a Scottish minister named John Ferguson accepts the task of traveling to a remote isla
Susan Casey has traveled about 17,000 feet deep into the ocean – and in her book The Underworld: Jou
Spooky season is year-round, and so are our episodes about scary stories. First up, NPR's Ayesha Ras
While screens have become a totally normalized part of kids' development today, social psychologist
Patric Gagne says she realized at a young age that she wasn't like other kids. Shame, guilt, empathy
Memory Piece, the new novel from National Book Award finalist Lisa Ko, kicks off in the 1980s with t
Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet is known for writing novels that are sometimes dark, yet funny
Today's episode features two books for younger readers. First, NPR's Scott Simon speaks with John Sc
Garrard Conley's memoir Boy Erased chronicled his upbringing as a Baptist preacher's son and his exp
Rae Wynn-Grant grew up in the Bay Area of California. But even if she was in the city, she was still
In Amor Towles' story collection Table for Two, the writer revisits a character from his very first
Hanif Abdurraqib's new book, There's Always This Year, is difficult even for the author to summarize
Today's episode features two books that use bright, colorful illustrations to convey larger messages
