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News Articles: Books

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an interview in Sacramento, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Newsom signed a bill on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, to ban school boards from rejecting textbooks based on their teachings about the contributions of people from different racial backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities, calling the measure "long overdue."

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  • Politics

New California law bars schoolbook bans based on racial and LGBTQ topics

Gov. Gavin Newsom called the new measure "long overdue," saying that the banning binge of diversity materials has to come to an end.

September 26, 2023
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb says in nature, the weaker animals are usually the ones killed by predators. That changes when cars are involved: "Roadkill is not only eliminating animals, it's in many cases eliminating those healthy animals that populations need to remain strong,"

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  • Animals

Cars are a major predator for wildlife. How is nature adapting to our roads?

Environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb says cars are killing animals, while highways cut off them off from their food sources and migration paths. His new book is Crossings.

September 26, 2023
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Book Reviews

The dystopian suspense 'Land of Milk and Honey' satisfies all manner of appetites

Set in the near future, C Pam Zhang's atmospheric novel centers on a chef who takes a job at a tech entrepreneur's isolated compound after smog kills most of Earth's plant and animal species.

September 26, 2023
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By:
  • Maureen Corrigan
US-British economist Angus Deaton speaks at a press conference after winning the Nobel Prize for Economics at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, on October 12, 2015.

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  • Economy

A Nobel prize-winning immigrant's view on American inequality

In a new book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton offers a scathing critique of American politics and economic policy.

September 26, 2023
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  • Greg Rosalsky

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  • Author Interviews

How a DNA test inspired actress-activist Kerry Washington's journey of self-discovery

Washington was an adult when she learned that she had been conceived via artificial insemination and the man she considered her father was not her biological dad. Her new memoir is Thicker than Water.

September 25, 2023
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
In <em>The </em><em>Enchanted Symphony</em>, a young boy named Piccolino harnesses the power of art, nature and community.

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  • Author Interviews

A concert audience of houseplants? A new kids' book tells the surprisingly true tale

The latest children's book from Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton and illustrator Elly McKay is about the power of nature and music. They discussed their creative process in an interview with NPR.

September 23, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman and
  • Samantha Balaban

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  • Book Reviews

Michael Harriot's 'Black AF History' could hardly come at a better time

This engaging, well-researched, and frequently laugh-out-loud funny history places the Black experience at center stage with stories that should have already been part of our collective memory.

September 22, 2023
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  • Ericka Taylor
GPB  NPR

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  • Book News & Features

Two debut books make the prestigious Booker Prize shortlist

Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You and Chetna Maroo's Western Lane are among the contenders for this year's prize, which honors the best English-language fiction published in the U.K. and Ireland.

September 22, 2023
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  • Andrew Limbong
Leslie Jones says she was 19 when Jamie Foxx told her she needed to live life — get hired, get fired, fall in love — in order to be truly funny.

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  • Television

How comic Leslie Jones went from funniest person on campus to 'SNL' star

Jones says performing stand-up for the first time as a freshman in college felt like putting on a shirt that fit perfectly: "It was just so natural." Her memoir is Leslie F*cking Jones.

September 21, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Book Reviews

Lauren Groff's survivalist novel 'The Vaster Wilds' will test your endurance, too

An impoverished servant girl escapes the fledgling Jamestown colony during the winter of 1609–1610 in a historical saga that takes its inspiration from Robinson Crusoe.

September 21, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Books sit on shelves in an elementary school library in suburban Atlanta on Aug. 18.

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  • National

There have been attempts to censor more than 1,900 library book titles so far in 2023

Most of the scrutinized books were written by or contained subject matter about people of color or members of the LGBTQ+ community, according to research by the American Library Association.

September 21, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
A PEN America report found that the number of books permanently removed from U.S. school libraries and classrooms has quadrupled — to 1,263 books in the last school year from 333 the year before.

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  • National

School book bans show no signs of slowing, new PEN America report finds

The number of bans and restrictions in the U.S. rose 33% in the last school year, according the the report. Florida had more bans than any other state.

September 21, 2023
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By:
  • Tovia Smith

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  • Book Reviews

'Wellness' is a perfect novel for our age, its profound sadness tempered with humor

Nathan Hill's stunning new novel about the stories we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time, is both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page.

September 20, 2023
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  • Michael Schaub

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  • Book Reviews

'North Woods' is the story of a place and its inhabitants over centuries

Daniel Mason's gorgeous fifth novel tells of a yellow house deep in the woods of western Massachusetts — and its motley succession of occupants who leave their mark on the property.

September 19, 2023
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  • Heller McAlpin
GPB  NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Comic Aparna Nancherla uses humor to confront self doubt and anxiety

Nancherla's starred in TV shows like BoJack Horseman and Master of None, and written for Late Night with Seth Meyers. She recounts her struggle with depression in the memoir, Unreliable Narrator.

September 19, 2023
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  • Ann Marie Baldonado
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