NPR's Book of the Day
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897 Episoade
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'Why Didn't You Tell Me?' explores a false origin story for the price of assimilation
Publicat: 25.07.2022 -
Two books show life as seen through the eyes of the animal kingdom
Publicat: 22.07.2022 -
The history of control over women and their bodies is central in 'The Foundling'
Publicat: 21.07.2022 -
Blurred family history gets questioned in Joseph Han's debut novel, 'Nuclear Family'
Publicat: 20.07.2022 -
'The Pallbearers Club' shows how dangerous nostalgia can be
Publicat: 19.07.2022 -
Mark Leibovich details the price of blind loyalty under Donald Trump in new book
Publicat: 18.07.2022 -
Two Indigenous authors on the legacy of a shared, painful history
Publicat: 15.07.2022 -
'Covered in Night' compares colonial and Indigenous approaches to justice
Publicat: 14.07.2022 -
In 'Poet Warrior', Joy Harjo uses poetry to deal with pain and heal
Publicat: 13.07.2022 -
In 'Fresh Banana Leaves' an indigenous approach to fighting climate change
Publicat: 12.07.2022 -
Morgan Talty uses humor to tell the story of an indigenous tribe's struggles
Publicat: 11.07.2022 -
Two nonfiction books reminiscent of a bygone era in Hollywood
Publicat: 08.07.2022 -
Werner Herzog's 'The Twilight World' is inspired by a WWII Japanese holdout officer
Publicat: 07.07.2022 -
'Under the Skin' shows how COVID exposed racial disparities in healthcare
Publicat: 06.07.2022 -
'The Tomorrow Game' is Sudhir Venkatesh's chronicle of violence in South Side Chicago
Publicat: 05.07.2022 -
'The Last Resort' unveils the environmental toll of beachside destinations
Publicat: 04.07.2022 -
Danielle Evans and Brit Bennett on the lies we tell ourselves
Publicat: 01.07.2022 -
A lifetime of secrets unfold in 'Black Cake'
Publicat: 30.06.2022 -
What does 'The Family Chao' have in common with Dostoyevsky? Murder and more.
Publicat: 29.06.2022 -
Hanya Yanagihara grapples with pandemics in 'To Paradise'
Publicat: 28.06.2022
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