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News Articles: Books

Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab pose for a portrait.

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Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab wrote ‘We Are Free, You and Me’ with daughter in mind

Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab wrote a new children’s book inspired by affirmations they share with their daughter and scores of young people they meet through their activism.

October 01, 2024
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  • Adriana Gallardo and
  • Michel Martin
"I love cooking for people I love," Ina Garten says. "And the cooking is just the medium; the thing that I care about is the connection."

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  • Food

Ina Garten shares her secret for a great dinner party: 6 people and a round table

"I like when everybody's knees are almost touching and it feels very intimate," the Barefoot Contessa host says. Garten's new memoir is Be Ready When the Luck Happens.

September 30, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
Aduba dedicates her new memoir to her mother, Nonyem Aduba. "My self-talk, the way that I motivate myself into pursuing this business ... is built out of language that my mother had given me," Aduba says.

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  • Author Interviews

Uzo Aduba thanks her mom: 'I didn't know how many prayers she sent up to heaven for me'

The Orange Is the New Black actor grew up the daughter of Nigerian immigrants in a predominantly white Massachusetts suburb. She looks back on her mother's influence in the memoir, The Road Is Good.

September 25, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
GPB News NPR

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Mueller investigator says Russia interfered in 2016 -- and in the 2024 election too

Mueller deputy Aaron Zebley looks back on the investigation of Trump's ties to Russia and explains why his team didn’t indict the president in 2017. Zebley is the co-author of Interference.

September 24, 2024
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Book Reviews

'Intermezzo' is Sally Rooney's most moving novel yet

Rooney's fourth novel is a story about learning to accept loss. And though it has its share of grief and strife, it's happier and less disturbing than Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You.

September 24, 2024
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  • Heller McAlpin
GPB News NPR

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  • Book Reviews

Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Powers plunges deep into the ocean in 'Playground'

Richard Powers' latest novel brims with love for humanity and the planet. He makes clear that while humans have made this planet our amusement park, we have not always taken proper care of our toys.

September 23, 2024
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  • Heller McAlpin
 <em>Death at the Sign of the Rook</em>

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  • Book Reviews

A light-hearted murder mystery weekend turns deadly in Kate Atkinson's cozy thriller

Death at the Sign of the Rook is an expansive novel that pokes fun of baroque, classic murder mysteries — but also delivers a fully satisfying, all-the-pieces-click-together ending.

September 20, 2024
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  • John Powers
<em> Entitlement</em>

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  • Book Reviews

'Entitlement' disappoints — 'Leave the World Behind' was a tough act to follow

Rumaan Alam’s previous novel was an inspired swirl of suspense, social commentary and apocalyptic disaster. His latest is about a young Black woman working for a uber-rich white socialite.

September 19, 2024
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Connie Chung, shown here in 2023, says watching a bad interview is painful: "I want to throw my shoe at [the television] if somebody isn't asking the question ... that I would ask."

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  • Author Interviews

Connie Chung says booze and bawdy jokes helped her break into journalism's boys club

In a new memoir, Chung reflects on the decades she spent covering the news, her marriage to Maury Povich and the prominent figures who acted inappropriately with her — including President Carter.

September 18, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
A customer browses titles at JF Books on September 17, 2024.

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  • Asia

A bookstore too controversial for China finds home in D.C.

This Shanghai bookstore, now in D.C., was revived by its owner, who hopes to create a space for open discussions in the diaspora community, where people can sit and read together.

September 18, 2024
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  • Majd Al-Waheidi
GPB News NPR

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  • Book Reviews

'Brothers and Ghosts' is a multi-generational saga of the Vietnamese diaspora

Khuê Phạm's debut novel follows a young Berlin journalist whose parents emigrated from South Vietnam. A message from an estranged uncle in the U.S. prompts her to explore her family history.

September 18, 2024
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By:
  • Thúy Đinh
After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk changed the company's name to X.

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  • Technology

What Musk's Twitter takeover could tell us about a possible government appointment

After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk instituted sweeping changes — including rebranding the social media platform as "X." Authors Kate Conger and Ryan Mac recount the takeover in Character Limit.

September 11, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
The StraightForward Foundation helps Russian authors publish abroad. Here are the French and Russian edition covers of a book about the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, by Ilia Barabanov and Denis Korotkov.

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  • World

Russian publishers in exile release books the Kremlin would ban

In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, writing about the war in Ukraine, the church or LGBTQ+ life could land you in jail. A new organization helps authors publish books in Russian they couldn't back home.

September 11, 2024
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  • Michele Kelemen
 Crater Lake

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  • Book Reviews

Rachel Kushner's new espionage thriller may be her coolest book yet

In Creation Lake, a hard-drinking American spy infiltrates a radical farming collective in a remote region of France. Kushner challenges readers to keep up with her and not to flinch.

September 10, 2024
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  • Maureen Corrigan
By the time he left 10 Downing Street in 2007, Tony Blair had gone from being Britain's most popular prime minister when he entered office to a deeply divisive leader a decade later.

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  • Politics

Tony Blair urges leaders to ignore 'waves of populist opinion'

Tony Blair's On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century is the political leadership guide he says he would have wanted in 1997, at the start of his 10-year tenure as British prime minister.

September 10, 2024
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