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Sarvat Hasin's new novel is about a magnetic friendship between 'Strange Girls'
In Sarvat Hasin’s novel Strange Girls, a Pakistani woman and an American woman meet at a London-based university in the 2010s. There, they quickly be…
4 weeks ago
Two new murder mysteries: 'Ruby Falls' and 'The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives'
Two new murder mystery novels let readers into hidden worlds: one underground and the other among the wives of serial killers. First, Ruby Falls begi…
1 month ago
Daisy Hernández argues 'Citizenship' has never been a fixed legal status
Author Daisy Hernández grew up in New Jersey in a community she describes as “the United Nations of Latinos,” with parents from Cuba and Colombia and…
1 month ago
Cara Bastone's 'No Matter What' is a romance novel that begins with a separation
Cara Bastone says she wanted to write a book filled with miscommunications that couldn’t be solved with a quick conversation. In her novel No Matter …
1 month ago
In 'The Mixed Marriage Project,' Dorothy Roberts works through her dad's archive
After the death of her father, sociologist and law professor Dorothy Roberts decided to sort through his boxes. What she found was an archive of note…
1 month ago
'The Correspondent' is an epistolary novel, but can letters tell the whole story?
Virginia Evans’ The Correspondent became a runaway hit for its exploration of a life told through letters. When readers meet Sybil Van Antwerp she’s …
1 month ago
'We the Women' and 'Rise, Girl, Rise' are stories about revolutionary women
To mark Women’s History Month, today’s episode features new books focused on women who have paved the way for gender equality. First, journalist Nora…
1 month, 1 week ago
'One of Us' is a British political drama based on the Boris Johnson era
In today’s episode, Elizabeth Day describes the protagonist in her new novel One of Us as the “quintessential outsider.” Martin Gilmour came from a d…
1 month, 1 week ago
To understand consciousness, Michael Pollan looked at plants, AI and himself
While researching a previous book, a mushroom trip in Michael Pollan’s garden left him curious about the boundaries of consciousness. His latest proj…
1 month, 1 week ago
In 'Bad Asians,' a friend group threatens its reputation with a viral video
Lillian Li says Bad Asians was drawn from her upbringing in a hypercompetitive Chinese-American community. In the novel, four 20-somethings, who grew…
1 month, 1 week ago