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A WWII story by The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling is published for the first time
Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling was a paratrooper during WWII. After the war, he wrote a short story inspired by the experience. It's now being published for the first time in The Strand.(Image credit: Esther Cooper Serling)
Juli Min begins with the future to understand the past in her novel 'Shanghailanders'
<div><p>NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with author Juli Min about her new book <em>Shanghailanders</em>, which unspools the story of a family in reverse.</p><img src="https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1250052848"></div>
From tweet to three-book deal, this author wants to transform the fantasy genre
<div><p>A new young adult novel called <em>Blood at the Root</em> follows a Black teen learning to harness his ancestral magic. Before it was a novel, it was a failed TV pilot. Before that, it was a tweet.</p><img src="https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1250052855"></div>
Magic, secrets, and urban legend: 3 new YA fantasy novels to read this spring
<div><img src="https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/05/08/untitled-design-63-_wide-c34490e641b550fb9ef52930497abe9a7927070c.jpg" alt="undefined"><p>A heist with a social conscience, a father using magic for questionable work, an urban legend turned sleepover dare: These new releases explore protagonists embracing the magic within themselves.</p><img src="https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1239718473"></div>
Book as Enemy - The Paris Review
<div><div><img src="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/shibli-image-1024x837.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>"To force a link between fiction and the real is an act of violence against the imagination."</div></div></div>
Book Review: Left Wing, Right Wing, People and Power
Left Wing, Right Wing, People and Power
by Douglas Giles
Genre: Nonfiction / Politics
ISBN: 9781735880860
Print Length: 106 pages
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Reviewed by Warren Maxwell
This work of political theory hammers out the brass tack definitions of left and right, liberal and conservative, in order to revitalize partisan debates.
“Political conflict is far less about a clash of political ideologies than political theorists and the corporate media portray.
Book Review: Guardians of the Latte Stones
Guardians of the Latte Stones
by M.K. Aleja
Genre: Historical Fiction / Speculative
ISBN: 9798990039001
Print Length: 375 pages
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Reviewed by Chelsey Tucker
A satisfying blend of historical and supernatural fiction in Japan during WWII
17-year-old volunteer for the Imperial Japanese army, Yoshida Takeshi is sent to Guam as part of the 38th Infantry. While en route, the group is attacked, and a neighboring ship goes down, killing hundreds
What's the cash value of being white? A white woman poses the question about herself
<div><p>NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Tracie McMillan, whose journalistic memoir — <em>The White Bonus</em> — examines the cash value of institutional racism in the United States.</p><img src="https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1249886153"></div>
Book Review: ‘Free and Equal,’ by Daniel Chandler
<div>The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.</div>
Uncovering What Audubon Missed, and What He Made Up
<div>In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.</div>
New Science Fiction and Fantasy
<div>New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.</div>
In 'Chicano Frankenstein,' the undead are the new underpaid labor force
Daniel Olivas's novel puts a new spin on the age-old Frankstein story. In this retelling, 12 million "reanimated" people provide a cheap workforce for the United States...and face a very familiar type of bigotry.
Colm Toibin vowed to never write a sequel. Until 'Long Island'
<div><p>NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Colm Toibin about his new novel <em>Long Island. </em>His main character opens her front door to a stranger who accuses her husband of having an affair with his wife.</p><img src="https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1249771014"></div>
Brittney Griner shares her experience behind bars in Russia
Brittney Griner didn't know the flight she was taking to Moscow in February 2022 would upend her life. But even before she left for the airport, Griner felt something was off.It was a premonition that foreshadowed a waking nightmare.She had accidentally left two vape cartridges with traces of cannabis oil in her luggage. What followed was nearly 10 months of struggle in a cell, and diplomatic efforts from the U.S. to get her home.Griner reflects on the experience in her new memoir, 'Coming Home'
'Long Island' renders bare the universality of longing
<div><img src="https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/05/07/untitled-design-62-_custom-60acdb71ae39149af8f27640b4a31a6cbadd9e77.jpg" alt="undefined"><p>In a heartrending follow-up to his beloved 2009 novel, <em>Brooklyn,</em> Colm Tóibín handles uncertainties and moral conundrums with exquisite delicacy, zigzagging through time to a devastating climax.</p><img src="https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1249564840"></div>
Second Selves - The Paris Review
<div><div><img src="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mit-oleandor.jpeg" style="width: 100%;"><div>“It seems we can’t help but imagine an audience when we write. Because a journal makes the self external, the self counts as an audience.”</div></div></div>
Brittney Griner reflects on 'Coming Home' after nearly 300 days in a Russian prison
The WNBA star, who is six feet, nine inches, says she felt like a zoo animal in prison. "The guards would literally come open up the little peep hole, look in, and then I would hear them laughing."(Image credit: Aris Messinis)
Pulitzer Prizes 2024: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists
<div>Jayne Anne Phillips won the fiction award for “Night Watch,” while Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo shared the biography prize.</div>
STARRED Book Review: Patterns by H.L. Gaydos
Patterns
by H.L. Gaydos
Genre: Nonfiction / Memoir / Art
ISBN: 9798891321861
Print Length: 198 pages
Publisher: Atmosphere Press
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Reviewed by Erica Ball
A beautiful take on how the moments that make up the story of a life can only be fully revealed with the perspective of time
In Patterns: The Mystical Journey of an Ordinary Life, visual artist, professor, and long-time psychiatric nurse Honey Lee Gayd
Book Review: Open This Book
Open This Book
by Sara Lohse
Genre: Nonfiction / Business & Leadership
ISBN: 9798989484843
Print Length: 216 pages
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Reviewed by Toni Woodruff
Become a dynamic thought leader with this high-spirited guide to using storytelling to captivate and get ahead.
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