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'Redaction' examines criminal justice via portraits, poems written from legal papers
Reginald Dwayne Betts and Titus Kaphar knew they were meant to work together when they first met. In 2019, they exhibited a project at MoMA PS1 that …
2 years, 11 months ago
'The Queen of Dirt Island' captures the bond between women in an Irish family
Donal Ryan's new novel, The Queen of Dirt Island, centers its women characters. He tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that making the men peripheral wasn'…
2 years, 11 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, 11 months ago
NPR's Ari Shapiro looks back on reporting, singing and touring in new memoir
Ari Shapiro's voice might be familiar to listeners for a number of reasons. He's one of the hosts of All Things Considered; he also sings and tours w…
2 years, 11 months ago
Two nonfiction books examine grief and its impact on memory
Today's episode covers two very different stories involving personal loss and what comes after. First, author Laura Braitman tells NPR's Sacha Pfeiff…
3 years ago
'Decent People' is a murder mystery grappling with race in the segregated South
In a small North Carolina town in 1976, three siblings are shot to death. That's the mystery at the center of De'Shawn Charles Winslow's new book, De…
3 years ago
Author Azar Nafisi says books can help you really live
Author Azar Nafisi has written a love letter to literature and reading in Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. She…
3 years ago
In 'Romantic Comedy,' Curtis Sittenfeld flips the gendered tropes
From Notting Hill to the real-life relationships of several SNL writers with Hollywood starlets – to even the new Barbie movie tagline ("She's everyt…
3 years ago
'The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi' calls a mother and former pirate back to the sea
Amina Al-Sirafi, the protagonist of Shannon Chakraborty's new novel, commanded the Indian Ocean as one of its most notorious pirates during the 12th …
3 years ago
Two novels find siblings confronting the evils around them
Today's episode is all about the complexities of sibling relationships, especially when the family is surrounded by hostile circumstances. First, NPR…
3 years ago