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'Baldwin: A Love Story' explores how the author's love life inspired his work

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NPR's Michel Martin talks to author Nicholas Boggs about his new book...

'Dopesick' author Beth Macy on escaping poverty -- and then going back home

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Macy returned to the Ohio factory town where she grew up to...

Here are the finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards

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This year's short list features novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as...

New books this week: Thomas Pynchon's first novel in 12 years, and much more

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In addition to Pynchon's Shadow Ticket, this week's releases include a new...

'Mormon Wives' star Mayci Neeley shares her complex life in new memoir

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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Mayci Neeley of Hulu's The Secret Lives...

Held hostage in Gaza for 491 days, an Israeli man recalls how he survived in new book

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Eli Sharabi survived 491 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza following the...

A new memoir charts the decline and resilience of an Ohio town

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In her new memoir, author and journalist Beth Macy returns to her...

'What we need right now is tenderness,' former poet laureate Ada Limón says

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Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm...

Palestinian journalist's new book offers a window into the war in Gaza

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Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad documented Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip after...

Letter poems to friends — of all kinds — in 'Dear Acorn, (Love, Oak)'

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What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat...

Letter poems to friends — of all kinds — in 'Dear Acorn, (Love, Oak)'

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What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat...

'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny' is a terrific, tangled love story

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This is an epic novel to be savored. At nearly 700 pages...