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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…
3 months, 2 weeks 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…
3 months, 3 weeks 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 …
3 months, 3 weeks 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…
3 months, 3 weeks 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 …
3 months, 3 weeks 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…
3 months, 3 weeks 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…
3 months, 4 weeks 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…
3 months, 4 weeks 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…
4 months ago
In new memoir, Gavin Newsom reflects on his political rise
As California’s governor – and a topic of discussion among some as a possible 2028 presidential candidate – Gavin Newsom is an exceedingly public fig…
4 months ago