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According to Jessica Hernandez, "as long as we protect nature, nature will protect us." Hernandez, f
Nailing the balance between humor and heavy, dark topics is a difficult feat. Night of the Living Re
Today we have two nonfiction books that touch on a bygone era of Hollywood some refer to as its "Gol
Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer during World War II, stationed on a small island in
Life expectancy in the U.S. has always been different for people of color. And since the pandemic, t
In Sudhir Venkatesh's The Tomorrow Game, two teenagers on Chicago's South Side face each other in a
Beach resorts are a favorite when it comes to travel destinations. But behind the infinity pools and
Today, two takes on stories we tell to make ourselves feel better and the consequences of believing
Author Charmaine Wilkerson's new novel, Black Cake, is all about identity; who we are and how we fit
Patriarch Leo Chao is murdered at his restaurant at the beginning of Lan Samantha Chang's new novel
Author of the wildly popular and, at times, controversial A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara, is out wi
Author Emma Straub has written a book about family dynamics and the mess and love that comes with th
Two collections of short stories, both alike in playfulness in our fair podcast. The first is with G
A non-fiction science book about animal sexuality could read like a dry textbook, but Eliot Schrefer
Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker are old enough to remember Jim Crow in the South. But they recogniz
As a little boy grieving his mother, Séamas O'Reilly couldn't entirely grasp the monumental task it
Junteenth was celebrated across the country this weekend and is observed nationally Monday. In a new
Father's Day is this Sunday, giving us a good opportunity to reflect not only the art of fatherhood
You've probably seen it: Reese Witherspoon playing ambitious, throat-cutting Tracy Flick in the 1999
Keri Blakinger says there are no rules behind bars. In 2010, she was arrested on a drug charge and s
