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The Kennedy Center on Aug. 13, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

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  • Arts & Life

Kennedy Center evacuates due to bomb threat targeting Shen Yun

A spokesperson for the Kennedy Center says the threat targeted Shen Yun, a touring dance troupe that is banned in China, because it is associated with the religious group Falun Gong.

February 20, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Author Eric Puchner's new novel, <em>Dream State,</em> is about a love triangle that tests the decades-long friendship of two college friends.

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  • Book News & Features

New novel asks: How much can a male friendship take?

Eric Puchner's new novel, Dream State, was just named the latest Oprah book club pick. It's about a love triangle that tests the decades-long friendship of two college friends.

February 19, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong

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  • Book News & Features

3 Harry Potter fan fiction authors are coming to a bookstore near you

Fan fiction — unsanctioned, unofficially published works based on popular novels or films — was intentionally never mainstream. The coming months will see a trio of titles by popular Draco and Hermione — Dramione — fanfic authors.

February 14, 2025
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By:
  • Dhanika Pineda
Tom Robbins, at a 2014 reading of his memoir<em> Tibetan Peach Pie</em> at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing in Beaverton, Ore.

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  • Obituaries

Bestselling novelist Tom Robbins dies at 92

Robbins dazzled readers with the whimsy and imagination in his books, including Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

February 09, 2025
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  • Tom Vitale

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  • Book News & Features

'The First State of Being' and 'Chooch Helped' win top children's book awards

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went to a middle-grade tale about a time traveler at the turn of the century.

January 27, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong
<em>Jules Feiffer at work on proof sheets from his first book,</em> Sick, Sick, Sick <em>in New York in 1958.</em>

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  • Obituaries

Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and playwright, dies at 95

Feiffer was best known for illustrating the children's classic "The Phantom Tollbooth." His loopy lines left a lasting mark on art, literature and film.

January 21, 2025
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  • Etelka Lehoczky
A screenshot of the "Created by Humans" website.

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  • Book News & Features

Major authors hope new AI licensing site will help them keep control of their books

In the wake of several lawsuits involving authors suing AI companies for allegedly scraping their literary works to train models, some big-name writers are signing on to a new AI licensing platform.

January 18, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
Previously unknown poems show Woolf as a fun aunt. She's pictured above in 1902.

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  • Book News & Features

Newly discovered poems show Virginia Woolf as a fun aunt

A researcher — who was looking for something else — stumbled onto two poems by Virginia Woolf. The silly, punny, quickly drafted poems were written for her niece and nephew sometime after March 1927.

January 17, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter holds up a copy of his book <em>Faith: A Journey For All</em> at a book signing event at Barnes & Noble bookstore on March 26, 2018.

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  • Books

10 essential books about Jimmy Carter

Throughout his lifetime, Jimmy Carter took on many titles: 39th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner, philanthropist, humanitarian, artist – and writer.

December 30, 2024
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  • Teresa Xie
A woman looks at books in a library in 2024.

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  • Books

These were the most-borrowed books from public libraries in 2024

Many of the most-borrowed books in 2024, including 'romantasy' titles and memoirs, also appeared on public library lists in 2023.

December 30, 2024
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  • Neda Ulaby

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  • Book News & Features

Granny is going on 'The Walk' to the polls — and the whole town is invited

"Leaders are not born," Granny says. "They're made through molding and modeling." That's why she and her granddaughter and putting on their hats and coats and walking to the polls.

October 26, 2024
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  • Samantha Balaban

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  • Book News & Features

A little mouse sets sail on a big adventure in 'The Ship in the Window'

Author Travis Jonker and illustrator Matthew Cordell talk about the real model ship that inspired their picture book about a man, his son, a mouse, and the voyage that brings them together.

October 13, 2024
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  • Samantha Balaban
South Korean author Han Kang in Seoul, South Korea, in 2016. Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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  • Book News & Features

Han Kang becomes the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature

The citation commended Han Kang's "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." She won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian in 2016.

October 10, 2024
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  • Neda Ulaby
Elvis tribute artists on stage in Porthcawl in Wales.

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  • Arts & Life

A small town in Wales claims the world's biggest Elvis festival. NPR visited

You might expect the world’s biggest Elvis Presley festival to be in Las Vegas, or Memphis, Tenn. One small UK seaside town holds an annual -- and possibly the world's biggest -- Elvis Presley festival.

October 04, 2024
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  • Robert Griffiths
"Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body?" Melania Trump asks in her new memoir, according to an early excerpt published by <em>The Guardian</em>. The former first lady is seen here at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18.

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  • Politics

In excerpt from new memoir, Melania Trump says women have the ‘right to choose’ abortion

In a video released Thursday, she says women are born with "individual freedom." Her memoir is coming out a year after former President Donald Trump said he was "able to kill Roe v. Wade."

October 03, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
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