'Ante body' asks us to be more open to the world
In her new collection, Egypt-born poet Marwa Helal plays with language to challenge the way we approach our problems.
Books
'The Facemaker' profiles the British surgeon who treated WWI's disfigured soldiers
Lindsey Fitzharris' new book tells the true story of Harold Gillies, a British surgeon whose team worked to reconstruct the faces of some of the 280,000 men who suffered facial trauma during WWI.
A fireproof copy of 'Handmaid's Tale' auctioned for $130,000 to help fight book bans
The special copy of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale was auctioned by Sotheby's on Tuesday. Proceeds will help PEN America in its efforts to oppose book banning.
Prison reporter Keri Blakinger reflects on her time in incarceration in new memoir
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keri Blakinger, author of the new memoir Corrections In Ink, which is about her path from Olympic figure skating dreams, to drug addiction, and then to prison.
Maxine Hong Kingston's work is as wondrous and alive as ever in this collection
Kingston burst onto the scene in 1976 with The Woman Warrior and then kept writing. Critic John Powers says that, like James Baldwin, she's managed to shift American culture and remain relevant.
8 books to celebrate Pride Month
From books about the history of AIDS activism and affecting personal narratives to cozy mysteries and plenty of romance, we've rounded up eight books to help you mark Pride Month.
A journalist revisits her parents' activism in 'They Said They Wanted Revolution'
Neda Toloui-Semnani shares the story of her parents, two Iranian students who met at Berkeley in 1969 and later, in Iran, worked to build a more democratic nation. Her father was executed in 1983.
'Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?' is a grief memoir that shuns sentimentality
Séamas O'Reilly reflects on how he grieved his mother anew as he grew older, on the way grief multiplied within his family, and on mourning rituals — but it's woven through with amusement.
Interview with the author of 'The Woman in the Library'
After someone is murdered in the Boston Public Library, four strangers team up to solve the crime. NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with author Sulari Gentill about her new book.
'Nightcrawling' follows a woman who turns to sex work to support her family
Ayesha Rascoe speaks with author Leila Mottley about her new novel, Nightcrawling, about a young Black woman in Oakland, Calif., who turns to prostitution to support herself and her family.