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<em>Harsh Times: A Novel,</em> by Mario Vargas Llosa

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Mario Vargas Llosa explores 1954 Guatemalan coup in new novel

Harsh Times, set in the 1950s, is historical fiction centering on events of a CIA-backed coup to overthrow Guatemala's democratically-elected government led by Jacobo Árbenz.

November 29, 2021
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  • Scott Simon,
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento,
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For Stanley Tucci, food is like religion — and cancer almost took it away

Tucci has always connected to his roots through food, so he was devastated when cancer treatment put him on a feeding tube. He's now cancer-free, with a new memoir. Originally broadcast Oct. 5, 2021.

November 26, 2021
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  • Dave Davies
Steven Van Zandt [left], James Gandolfini and Tony Sirico starred in HBO's hit television series, <em>The Sopranos</em>.

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HBO revolutionized TV, but the next few years are tipped to be pivotal for its future

Journalist James Andrew Miller and NPR TV critic Eric Deggans talk about how HBO changed television and why the next few years are pivotal for the network's future.

November 24, 2021
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By:
  • Eric Deggans
Dave Grohl performs onstage during the taping of the 2021 "Vax Live" fundraising concert at the in Inglewood, Calif.

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Dave Grohl retraces his life-affirming path from Nirvana to Foo Fighters

After Nirvana ended, Grohl wasn't sure he wanted to continue making music. But, he says, "I realized that music was the one thing that had healed me my entire life." His memoir is The Storyteller.

November 24, 2021
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Author Louise Erdrich next the cover of her new book, <em>The Sentence.</em>

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The white ghosts haunting Native Americans in 'The Sentence'

Louise Erdrich's novel turns the trope of the haunted Indian burial ground on its head with the story of a Native-run bookstore being visited by the ghost of a white woman obsessed with indigeneity.

November 23, 2021
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  • Sam Yellowhorse Kesler
A clerk shows a customer an AR-15 style rifle at a gun show in Costa Mesa, Calif. in June 2021. Gun sales increased in the U.S, following COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.

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Former gun industry insider explains why he left to fight for the other side

Gunfight author Ryan Busse was once a rising star in the gun industry. But he became disillusioned after Columbine when, he says, the NRA began to use "fear and conspiracy and hatred" to boost sales.

November 22, 2021
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  • Dave Davies
Nikole Hannah-Jones won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant in 2017. She is a tenured faculty member at Howard University.

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'1619 Project' journalist says Black people shouldn't be an asterisk in U.S. history

Nikole Hannah-Jones says the contributions of Black people are often left out of the American story. Her mission is to reframe U.S. history through the lens of slavery.

November 17, 2021
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By:
  • Arun Venugopal
Blair Braverman is a contributing editor to <em>Outside Magazine. </em>She's also appeared on the Discovery reality show <em>Naked and Afraid</em>, in which she and a partner were left in a remote area of South Africa without clothes, food or water for three weeks.

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Don't get dragged! Iditarod musher shares tales from the trail

Blair Braverman says if she lets go of the sled, the dogs will race on without her. The question, she says, is not how to get sled dogs to go. Rather, it's how do you get them to stop?

November 16, 2021
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  • Dave Davies
Trump supporters clash with police and security forces during the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

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ABC's Jonathan Karl details Trump's efforts to overturn the election in 'Betrayal'

The new book from ABC News' chief Washington correspondent focuses on how Trump worked to overturn the election — but Karl also has a message about the rally at the Capitol that became a riot.

November 16, 2021
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  • James Doubek
Elliot Ackerman was awarded the Silver Star Medal, the Bronze Medal for Valor and the Purple Heart for his military service.

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A Marine veteran says the contradictions of war can make you feel insane

Elliot Ackerman served five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, during which time, he says, he witnessed the absolute worst — as well as the absolute best — that human beings are capable of.

November 12, 2021
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  • Terry Gross
Teafua Tanu is an islet of Tokelau used by residents of Fakaofo atoll as a Catholic cemetery. Over the past two decades, the territory of Tokelau has proved extremely vulnerable to climate change and rising sea levels owing, partly, to its being a small land mass surrounded by ocean, and its location in a region prone to natural disasters.

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Their lands are oceans apart but are linked by rising, warming seas of climate change

Photographer Vlad Sokhin's latest work, Warm Waters, is an exploration of climate change traveling across 18 countries and off-the-map territories seen by seldom few.

November 12, 2021
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By:
  • Charles Maynes and
  • Grace Widyatmadja

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  • Author Interviews

Children's book 'Calvin' shows how a community can embrace a trans child's identity

Authors JR and Vanessa Ford's experience with their own child coming out inspired the story of the young transgender protagonist in their new children's book.

November 11, 2021
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By:
  • Audie Cornish,
  • Jonaki Mehta,
  • and 1 more
Will Smith looks back on his life in the memoir, <em>Will</em>. "Those difficulties and those traumas and the mental anguish that I had to overcome was a big part of me growing into the person I am today," he says.

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Will Smith says he crafted a joyful image to cover the pain of the past

As a child, Smith watched helplessly as his father beat his mother. The experience shaped him: "The mental anguish that I had to overcome was a big part of me growing into the person I am today."

November 10, 2021
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  • Tonya Mosley
Writer Anne Helen Petersen says that on the other side of the pandemic, there's a chance work will rotate more around people's lives instead of the other way around.

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As companies look to bring remote workers back to the office, a writer asks: Why?

Anne Helen Petersen is the co-author of a new book on the future of remote work. She says companies need to clearly know what goal they are pursuing when asking remote workers to come back in person.

November 09, 2021
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  • Rachel Martin,
  • Lisa Weiner,
  • and 2 more
Columbia University professor John McWhorter argues that some anti-racism actions have gone too far.

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'Woke Racism': John McWhorter argues against what he calls a religion of anti-racism

Linguistics professor John McWhorter's new book is Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. He says some in the U.S. cultural left have taken "anti-racism" efforts to extremes.

November 06, 2021
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  • James Doubek,
  • Steve Inskeep,
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