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Two National Book Awards finalists take on climate extremes
Today's episode features interviews with two authors whose works are 2023 National Book Awards finalists — one fiction, one nonfiction. Both broach t…
2 years, 7 months ago
How Indian migrant workers escaped human trafficking in Mississippi
Today's episode is a true story that reads like a novel. In 2006, author and labor organizer Saket Soni received a call from an Indian migrant worker…
2 years, 7 months ago
Patricia Park's new YA novel captures the complexities of race and adolescence
Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim follows a Korean-Argentinian teen's journey to understanding who she is. Through the comfort…
2 years, 7 months ago
Stephen Buoro's comic novel follows a young Nigerian man's obsession with whiteness
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro is one of our favorite books of 2023. It focuses on a 15-year-old boy, Andy Aziza, who l…
2 years, 7 months ago
'Burn It Down' exposes discrimination and toxicity behind the scenes in Hollywood
As Hollywood was warming up for a summer of labor strikes a few months ago, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan came out with a new book, Burn It Down, that e…
2 years, 7 months ago
'Loot' traces the love, war and art that shaped India's colonial history
In her new novel Loot, Tania James writes of a 17-year-old woodworker who's commissioned to build a tiger automaton for the Indian ruler Tipu Sultan …
2 years, 7 months ago
Two graphic memoirs explore growing up as a minority in the U.S.
Today's episode features interviews with two highly accomplished artists who've written graphic memoirs about the intricacies of growing up as young …
2 years, 7 months ago
In 'Blackouts,' Justin Torres shines a light on silenced LGBTQ history
The new novel and National Book Awards finalist by Justin Torres, Blackouts, blurs the line between fiction and history to bring marginalized queer n…
2 years, 7 months ago
Jonathan Eig's biography of MLK explores the activist's life and faith
King:A Life, the biography by Jonathan Eig, provides a fresh perspective into the life of one of America's most important activists. From his upbring…
2 years, 7 months ago
In 'The Covenant of Water,' Abraham Verghese traces an Indian family's drowning curse
The Covenant of Water follows three generations of a family in the coastal state of Kerala, India, where they're haunted by a devastating event, over…
2 years, 7 months ago