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A person dressed as Bigfoot makes their way through the snow during a blizzard in Boston in January 2015. John O'Connor's <em>The Secret History of Bigfoot</em> explores the myth and its lingering appeal.

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Is Bigfoot real? A new book dives deep into the legend

The Secret History of Bigfoot is a smart, hilarious, and wonderfully immersive journey into the history of Bigfoot, the culture around it, the people who obsess about it, and the psychology behind it.

February 09, 2024
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  • Gabino Iglesias
Benjamin Herold is the author of "Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs."

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In 'Disillusioned,' author Benjamin Herold grapples with the false promise of the suburbs

In his new book, Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs, Benjamin Herold explores why the suburbs have failed to provide the upward mobility so many Americans dream of.

February 08, 2024
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  • Peter Biello

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  • Book Reviews

Pregame the Super Bowl with our favorite football fiction

Of course, leave it to the gigantic nerds at NPR to throw a literary tailgate ... but to thine own self be true, even if it means getting stuffed into your locker later this afternoon.

February 08, 2024
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  • Beth Novey
Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake perform at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2004.

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  • Arts & Life

Reexamining the 'upskirt decade' and the public ridicule of female pop stars

The new book Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s reassesses a time when popular culture policed, ridiculed and even took down a variety of women in the public eye.

February 08, 2024
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  • Scott Detrow,
  • Gabriel J. Sánchez,
  • and 1 more

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  • Book Reviews

Books from Mexico, Netherlands, and Japan bring rewrites of history, teen tales

Books from writers Álvaro Enrigue, Simone Atangana Bekono, and Kiyoko Murata may not come from the same place — but they still work in conversation with each other.

February 08, 2024
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  • Lily Meyer
In her new book <em>Get the Picture, </em>journalist Bianca Bosker explores why connecting with art sometimes feels harder than it has to be. Above, a visitor takes in paintings at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London in 2010.

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  • Author Interviews

How the art world excludes you and what you can do about it

First of all, can we stop using the word "liminal"? Bianca Bosker spent five years doing in-depth research for Get the Picture — an irreverent book about "strategic snobbery" in the art world.

February 07, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair

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  • Book News & Features

Maurice Sendak delights children with new book, 12 years after his death

The late author-illustrator, creator of Pierre and Where the Wild Things Are, loved whistling, Mozart, and Mickey Mouse curios. His trademark whimsy can be found in the new book Ten Little Rabbits.

February 06, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Mark Daley is the founder of <a href="https://thefosterparent.com/">The Foster Parent</a>, a national platform to connect interested families with foster organizations.

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  • Author Interviews

A foster parent reflects on loving — and letting go of — the children in his care

Mark Daley always knew the goal was reunification — but he was still devastated when the young boys in his care returned to their birth family. He writes about the experience in his new memoir, Safe.

February 06, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Writer George Pelecanos reads <em>The</em> <em>Washington Post</em> every morning in his home.

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  • Author Interviews

Police raided George Pelecanos' home. 15 years later, he's ready to write about it

Crime fiction author and screenwriter George Pelecanos is known for his gritty realism. His latest short story collection takes that same unsparing look at his own past.

February 05, 2024
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  • Andrew Limbong
A lone shopper heads into a Target store on Jan. 11 in Lakewood, Colo.

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Target pulls Black History Month book that misidentified 3 civil rights icons

The magnet book mixed up W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson. Target said it will no longer sell the book in stores or online and that it notified the publisher of the errors.

February 03, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Actors Susan Lawson-Reynolds, Beth Angus, Deborah Ayorinde, and Bethany Antonia in Hallmark's adaptation of Jane Austen's <em>Sense and Sensibility</em>.

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  • Arts & Life

Hallmark recasts 'Sense and Sensibility' and debuts other Austen-inspired films

This month, the network debuts Loveuary, a quartet of films inspired by the creativity and fandom of Regency-era novelist Jane Austen, including Sense and Sensibility with a mostly Black lead cast.

February 01, 2024
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  • Carole V. Bell
Brittni Robertson Powell, with the New Orleans-based bookstore Baldwin & Co. looks through her choice for Black History Month: <em>I Am Ruby Bridges.</em>

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  • Books

6 books to help young readers learn about Black history

Five authors, librarians and book shop owners suggest turning to literature to help teach kids about Black history, culture and themes for this Black History Month.

February 01, 2024
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  • Jaclyn Diaz,
  • Aubri Juhasz,
  • and 1 more
Attendees at the One Word Poetry Festival's Youth Poet Laureate Commencement in Rock Hill, S.C., in 2022.

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Academy of American Poets receives its largest-ever donation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded two grants totaling more than $5.7 million to support the organization's Poet Laureates as well as a national alliance of organizations promoting poetry.

January 31, 2024
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  • Neda Ulaby

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  • Book Reviews

'Your Utopia' considers surveillance and the perils of advanced technology

The best of Bora Chung's new stories impart a feeling of disorientation, evoking worlds that seem at first like utopias only to disclose, upon deeper inspection, dystopias.

January 30, 2024
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  • Rhona Feng
Sex educator Emily Nagoski, author of the new book <em>Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections</em>, discusses what it means to be sex positive.

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  • Books

A sex educator on the one question she is asked the most: 'Am I normal?'

Emily Nagoski is a sex educator and author of a bestseller on enhancing your sex life. The book did so well that it got in the way of her own.

January 30, 2024
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  • Juana Summers,
  • Elena Burnett,
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