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New books this week: A foodie memoir, a missing child, witches illustrated, and more

Care and Feeding chronicles life in the culinary world. All the Other Mothers Hate Me follows a mom turned amateur detective. Plus, Karen Russell's first full-length novel since Swamplandia!

March 11, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer

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  • Book Reviews

From pointy hats to murder of innocents, 'The Story of Witches' revives the past

Willow Winsham's new book on witches, past and present, offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a stunning work of art.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Gabino Iglesias
A review card of Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>, written by a Los Angeles Public Library staff member around the time of the book's publication.

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Before the internet, how the LA Public Library helped readers pick their next novel

The Los Angeles Public Library stores thousands of index cards with staff reviews of books dating back to the 1920s. A librarian explains how they were used and what we can learn from them today.

March 08, 2025
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  • Clare Marie Schneider
Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith is learning to accept the limits of time

Author Zadie Smith says she'll miss being young. In this week's Wild Card, Smith opens up about having enough time and growing older.

March 06, 2025
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  • Rachel Martin
Tina Fey

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  • Arts & Life

'SNL' photographer reflects on iconic celebrity portraits

Mary Ellen Matthews has been SNL's photographer for 25 years. In a new book, The Art of the SNL Portrait, she shares her most iconic celebrity photos, like Pete Davidson eating pasta.

March 05, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Mia Venkat,
  • and 1 more
Jordan Chiles of Team USA reacts after finishing her routine on the uneven bars during the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.

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'I was devastated': Jordan Chiles recounts 2024 Olympics in new memoir

Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles shares her up-and-down journey to the 2024 Paris Games and what happened afterward, in her new memoir, "I'm That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams."

March 04, 2025
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By:
  • Juana Summers,
  • Brianna Scott,
  • and 1 more
Pulitzer Prize winner and <em>To Kill A Mockingbird</em> author Harper Lee smiles before receiving the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on Nov. 5, 2007.

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A new collection of Harper Lee's writing is coming later this year

The beloved author of To Kill a Mockingbird famously only released two novels in her lifetime. Now, the world will get to read more of Lee's work with an upcoming release of short stories and essays.

March 04, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the themes of her new novel, Dream Count: "I wanted to write about women's lives. And the reality of it is that for many women, the men in their lives in some ways, shape their lives."

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  • Author Interviews

Celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'I have always longed to be known'

Celebrated Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about her new book, "Dream Count."

March 04, 2025
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  • Michel Martin,
  • Adriana Gallardo,
  • and 2 more
Hanif Kureishi says his fall in 2022 didn't rob him of his ability to function or be creative: "In fact, I'm writing more now."

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  • Author Interviews

A fall 'Shattered' Hanif Kureishi's life. Dictating his new book gave him purpose

Kureishi began his new memoir just days after a fall left him paralyzed. In it, he describes being completely dependent on others — and the sense of purpose he's gained from writing.

March 03, 2025
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Book Reviews

'Last Seen': After slavery, family members placed ads looking for loved ones

Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book.

February 27, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan
"I have a lot to think about the relationship between mourning, between grieving, and between pain, generally speaking, and bilingualism and living in a different language," says Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza about <em>Death Takes Me,</em> her newly translated novel.

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  • Author Interviews

Language as protagonist in Cristina Rivera Garza's newly translated novel

Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza offers new perspective on gender violence through a murder mystery and poetry.

February 27, 2025
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  • Adriana Gallardo

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  • Book Reviews

After a tragic accident, a widow faces a lifetime of what-ifs

Live Fast won France's top literary prize in 2022. Brigitte Giraud's haunting book revisits the death of her husband in a motorcycle crash 20-odd years earlier.

February 24, 2025
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  • John Powers

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  • Book News & Features

What's it like to be famous? These 13 new celebrity memoirs may clue you in

This year brings memoirs from more than a dozen famous names — from Brooke Shields and Dawn Staley to Bill Belichick and Lionel Ritchie.

February 23, 2025
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By:
  • Dhanika Pineda
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

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  • Books

First known cookbook by a Black American woman gets new edition 160 years later

Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus recipes for shampoo and cologne – and remedies for toothaches.

February 20, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
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