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Editor's note: This episode contains a discussion of suicide.Early in today's episode, writer Sloane

It's been four years since the world went into lockdown mode as COVID-19 rapidly spread across the g

Jay, the 17-year-old at the heart of Daniel Kraus' novel Whalefall, has an hour of oxygen left on hi

Early in today's episode, Here & Now's Scott Tong poses what a lot of activists and listeners might

Today's episode features interviews with two poets whose new works look back in time, either in thei

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

A new memoir by historian Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer and brother of Princess Diana, details a

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NPR's Sarah McCammon grew up in the white evangelical church — and though she left the tradition as

Percival Everett is a prolific author – his 2001 book Erasure was recently adapted into the Oscar-wi

Tessa Hulls' grandmother, Sun Yi, was a dissident journalist in Shanghai who faced intense political

Eight young women are competing at the 12th Annual Women's 18 and Under Daughters of America Cup, a

Christine Blasey Ford says the time leading up to her 2018 testimony in front of the Senate Judiciar

2034, the first novel by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis, chronicled a nuclear conflict

Today's episode features two retired journalists who've written memoirs reflecting on some of the hi

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

Before World War I, approximately 2 million Jewish people fled Russia and Eastern Europe for the Uni

Maurice Vellekoop's new graphic memoir, I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together, is named after the so

Raquel Toro, the protagonist of Xochitl Gonzalez's new novel, is working on her thesis about a minim

Tommy Orange's debut novel, There, There, centers several Native American characters grappling with