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'Roaming' is a graphic novel about friendship and travel
It's one thing to be friends with someone, but going on a trip together? Totally different story. A new graphic novel by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki captures that dissonance: Roaming follows two…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
In 'Jews in the Garden,' a Holocaust survivor tries to uncover uncomfortable truths
As The Public's Radio Lynn Arditi says in today's episode, much has been written about the Polish resistance movement during World War II. But in her interview with Judy Rakowsky, author of Jews in t…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Héctor Tobar examines Latino identity in 'Our Migrant Souls'
When Héctor Tobar was born to Guatemalan parents in Los Angeles in the 1960s, his race was described as "caucasian" on his birth certificate. In his new book, Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize wi…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Lauren Groff talks captivity narratives, climate change and 'The Vaster Wilds'
Today's episode is an in-length conversation with National Book Award finalist Lauren Groff. She met up with NPR's Andrew Limbong at a library at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, wher…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Alice Carrière's memoir tackles the dissonance between memory and mental health
Alice Carrière grew up in Manhattan under the care – and absence – of two extraordinarily creative parents: artist Jennifer Bartlett and actor Mathieu Carrière. But her mother's trauma, her father's …
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
In 'Fly,' Mitchell S. Jackson looks back over the history of fashion in the NBA
From Walt "Clyde" Frazier to Russell Westbrook, a new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Mitchell S. Jackson chronicles the relationship between style and basketball over decades. Fly: The Big Book of Bas…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
In 'The Fraud,' Zadie Smith takes on historical fiction and the Tichborne case
In the 19th century, a butcher living in Australia claimed to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. The Tichborne trial, which sparked much controversy and even more attention in Victorian Engl…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Abdulrazak Gurnah's 'Afterlives' highlights nuances of colonization in East Africa
In Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives, the characters centered in the novel offer different perspectives of ordinary people under German colonization in East Africa. In an interview with NPR's Scott Simo…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Two books examine masculinity and mental health in immigrant families
Today's episode is rooted in how the expectations of immigrant fathers affect their children. First, Khashayar J. Khabushani speaks with Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes about his novel I Will Greet the …
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
'The Men Can't Be Saved' analyzes masculinity in the world of advertising
Ben Purkert's novel, The Men Can't Be Saved, follows a junior copywriter with a viral tagline for adult diapers. Is it a modern take on Mad Men? Or its very antithesis? Purkert tells NPR's Sacha Pfei…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago