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Gabino Iglesias' 'House of Bone and Rain' is a tale of vengeance in Puerto Rico
Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Gabino Iglesias, knows what it's like for grief and anger to turn deadly. That's what he explores in his new novel,…
2 years, 1 month ago
'Drawn Testimony' is a courtroom sketch artist's memoir spanning 40 years
Courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg has worked on some of the biggest trials of the last 40 years, drawing the likes of Martha Stewart, Jeffrey Ep…
2 years, 1 month ago
Rufaro Faith Mazarura's 'Let the Games Begin' is a rom-com set in the Olympic village
The fictional Olympics at the heart of Rufaro Faith Mazarura's novel, Let the Games Begin, kick off in Athens. And in the middle of one of the most i…
2 years, 1 month ago
'We Were Illegal' examines Texas history through multiple generations of one family
After she worked on a book about refugee resettlement in the U.S., writer Jessica Goudeau says she realized she knew very little about how her own fa…
2 years, 1 month ago
Two books revisit the cultural impacts of Tina Turner, Duke Ellington and more
Today's episode highlights two books that revisit the cultural contributions of some pretty big names. First, Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes speaks wit…
2 years, 1 month ago
Sheetal Sheth pens a children's book about Raksha Bandhan in 'Raashi's Rakhis'
The Hindu holiday Raksha Bandhan is just around the corner – and in a new children's book called Raashi's Rakhis, actor and activist Sheetal Sheth wr…
2 years, 1 month ago
In 'Bringing Ben Home,' Barbara Bradley Hagerty examines a wrongful conviction
In 1987, a Black 22-year-old named Ben Spencer was convicted of murdering a white man in Texas. In 2021, he was cleared of those charges and released…
2 years, 1 month ago
In 'Five-Star Stranger,' a man gets hired on an app to pretend to be a girl's father
There's an app for everything. In Kat Tang's debut novel Five-Star Stranger, there's even one that allows you to hire someone you've never met to pla…
2 years, 1 month ago
In 'Midnight in Moscow,' a U.S. ambassador recounts his time in Russia
John J. Sullivan served as U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2019 to 2022. He was there during Russia's invasion of Ukraine – and he writes about that t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Nancy Pelosi opens up about how she wields 'The Art of Power'
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says her new book, The Art of Power, is not a memoir. Instead, she says, it's an inside look at specific mom…
2 years, 2 months ago