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Parks and Rec actor Nick Offerman is famous for playing an outdoorsman on TV, but it turns out he ac

Poet Laureate Joy Harjo says she loved poetry as a kid, but didn't feel like it belonged to her. "It

The Queen of Tejano music is having a moment in pop culture once again, even 26 years after her murd

Amidst all the bad news (like, really bad news), it can be hard to hold on to hope — especially with

It's almost Halloween, which means that we're in peak spooky season. So for today's episode, we brin

The humor writer Drew Magary was at a karaoke bar when his life changed in a flash: He collapsed and

The bestselling author Louise Penny is a prolific writer of mysteries and thrillers — but for her la

Back in June 2020, during a summer of protests for racial justice, the New Yorker republished 'Lette

If you visited South Nashville today, you might not suspect that, over a century ago, it was home to

Our relationship to food goes far beyond its nutritional value. What we eat can help us tap into som

The Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard gained an international reputation thanks to his breakout a

Former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham famously held no press briefings during her time in t

When Colin Powell died on October 18 at the age of 84 from COVID-19 complications, he left behind a

Amor Towles' new book is quite the joyride — The Lincoln Highway follows four kids in a 1948 Studeba

After the protests last year, we heard the phrase "racial reckoning" a lot, as some groups of people

In her memoir, Fiona Hill extends her riveting testimony from Donald Trump's first impeachment trial

Percival Everett's page-turning new detective novel The Trees is at once gruesome and screamingly fu

Since her childhood in 1970s San Francisco, critic and poet Maggie Nelson has been mulling the conce

Back in August, Myriam J.A. Chancy was preparing for the release of her novel What Storm, What Thund

Authors Joshua Prager and Leni Zumas each explore the real world implications of abortion politics,