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Tochi Onyebuchi’s 'Racebook' is a 'personal history' of a less serious time online

Philip Pullman’s new novel follows ‘The Golden Compass’ heroine into young adulthood

Revisiting ‘The Joy Luck Club’

"Books We've Loved" features hosts B. A. Parker and Andrew Limboong, along with guest Wailin Wong, discussing Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club." They explore their personal connections to the book, its cultural impact, and the backlash it received, particularly concerning the portrayal of Asian men. The discussion covers t...

Reese Witherspoon, Harlan Coben and Chris Kraus are out with new crime thrillers

These previously unpublished Harper Lee stories were discovered in her NYC apartment

In 'The Eleventh Hour,' Salman Rushdie writes about morality, revenge and ghosts

Julian Brave Noisecat’s 'We Survived the Night' is part memoir, part Native history

Karine Jean-Pierre’s new memoir 'Independent' explains why she left the Democrats

Revisiting Charles Portis’ True Grit

Stephen King on 'The Shining' sequel and the novel he co-authored with his son

In 'The Hacienda,' the protagonist is trapped in a haunted house – and her marriage

Shirley Jackson’s biographer on the writer’s ability to find evil in the ordinary

Princeton professor Susan Wolfson on why we love 'Frankenstein' two centuries later

'Interview with the Vampire' author Anne Rice takes NPR on a tour of her haunted home

Revisiting Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’

'Paper Girl' and 'Joyride' are memoirs by journalists who get close to their subjects

This Palestinian journalist kept a diary as Israeli forces invaded – now it’s a book

A new James Baldwin biography asks how the writer’s lovers might’ve shaped him

Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir recounts abuse by Epstein, Maxwell and others

Ken Liu’s latest novel ‘All That We See or Seem’ is speculative fiction about AI