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The secret to lasting love? Sometimes it's OK to go to bed angry

The Gottmans have been studying marriage and relationships for 40 years. In a new book, Fight Right, they explain how successful couples resolve their conflicts.

February 13, 2024
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  • Andee Tagle
In her new book <em>Get the Picture, </em>journalist Bianca Bosker explores why connecting with art sometimes feels harder than it has to be. Above, a visitor takes in paintings at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London in 2010.

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How the art world excludes you and what you can do about it

First of all, can we stop using the word "liminal"? Bianca Bosker spent five years doing in-depth research for Get the Picture — an irreverent book about "strategic snobbery" in the art world.

February 07, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Mark Daley is the founder of <a href="https://thefosterparent.com/">The Foster Parent</a>, a national platform to connect interested families with foster organizations.

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A foster parent reflects on loving — and letting go of — the children in his care

Mark Daley always knew the goal was reunification — but he was still devastated when the young boys in his care returned to their birth family. He writes about the experience in his new memoir, Safe.

February 06, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Writer George Pelecanos reads <em>The</em> <em>Washington Post</em> every morning in his home.

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Police raided George Pelecanos' home. 15 years later, he's ready to write about it

Crime fiction author and screenwriter George Pelecanos is known for his gritty realism. His latest short story collection takes that same unsparing look at his own past.

February 05, 2024
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  • Andrew Limbong
Crownsville patients work in the hospital's fields in the 1910s.

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What a Jim Crow-era asylum can teach us about mental health today

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness.

January 29, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley

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'Buffalo Fluffalo' has had enuffalo in this kids' bookalo

'Buffalo Fluffalo' may seem big and intimidating, but it's all puffery. He really just needs some snuggalos from his friends in this rhyming book from author Bess Kalb and illustrator Erin Kraan.

January 28, 2024
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  • Samantha Balaban
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy sings the national anthem during a visit to the city of Izium, in the Kharkiv, Sept. 14, 2022.

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How war changed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Time correspondent Simon Shuster says Zelenskyy is "almost unrecognizable" from the happy-go-lucky, optimistic comedian he first met in 2019. Shuster's new book is The Showman.

January 24, 2024
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  • Dave Davies
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This kids book chronicles a packet of ramen's longing to be Italian spaghetti instead

NPR speaks with the author of the children's book I Want to Be Spaghetti!, Kiera Wright-Ruiz about the melting pot of noodles.

January 22, 2024
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  • Lauren Migaki
Dr. Uché Blackstock is the author of <em>Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism In Medicine.</em>

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Following in her mom's footsteps, a doctor fights to make medicine more inclusive

Dr. Uché Blackstock says that the 2023 SCOTUS ruling against affirmative action will have a long-term, negative impact on both Black doctors and patients. Her book is Legacy.

January 22, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
"The act of choosing a piece of culture to consume is a really powerful one," says writer Kyle Chayka. He's the author of <em data-stringify-type="italic">Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture.</em>

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How social media algorithms 'flatten' our culture by making decisions for us

Filterworld author Kyle Chayka examines the algorithms that dictate what we watch, read and listen to. He argues that machine-guided curation makes us docile consumers.

January 17, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead sits for an interview in 1952.

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How Margaret Mead's research into utopias helped usher in the psychedelic era

In Tripping on Utopia, historian Benjamin Breen writes about Mead's early research into psychedelic substances — and how it led to secret CIA experiments using psychedelics for interrogation.

January 16, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Muhammad Zaman, author of the book <em>We Wait for a Miracle</em><em>,</em> in his lab at Boston University.

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Q&A: Author Muhammad Zaman on why health care is an impossible dream for 'unpersons'

In his new book, We Wait for a Miracle, Zaman tells how about the struggle for health care by forcibly displaced people — refugees, the internally displaced, the stateless.

January 15, 2024
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  • Tanya Basu and
  • Gisele Grayson

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  • Book News & Features

Mop-mop-swoosh-plop it's rug-washing day in 'Bábo'

Little Tato sneaks a few cherry plums before grabbing a mop and a hose to help Bábo — her grandmother — with a favorite chore.

January 13, 2024
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  • Samantha Balaban
Annie Liontas is a professor of writing at George Washington University. Their previous book is <em>Let Me Explain You.</em>

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'Sex With a Brain Injury' reveals how concussions can test relationships

Annie Liontas experienced three brain injuries in the span of one year, which led to dizziness, memory fog and anger — and impacted Liontas' marriage and sex life.

January 09, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Restaurateur Rose Previte shares recipes she learned from women around the world

Previte's restaurants serve food inspired by her extensive travels and the home-cooked Lebanese dishes of her childhood. Her new cookbook is Maydān: Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond.

January 03, 2024
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