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News Articles: Books

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  • Book Reviews

'Last Seen': After slavery, family members placed ads looking for loved ones

Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book.

February 27, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan
"I have a lot to think about the relationship between mourning, between grieving, and between pain, generally speaking, and bilingualism and living in a different language," says Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza about <em>Death Takes Me,</em> her newly translated novel.

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  • Author Interviews

Language as protagonist in Cristina Rivera Garza's newly translated novel

Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza offers new perspective on gender violence through a murder mystery and poetry.

February 27, 2025
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  • Adriana Gallardo

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  • Book Reviews

After a tragic accident, a widow faces a lifetime of what-ifs

Live Fast won France's top literary prize in 2022. Brigitte Giraud's haunting book revisits the death of her husband in a motorcycle crash 20-odd years earlier.

February 24, 2025
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  • John Powers

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  • Book News & Features

What's it like to be famous? These 13 new celebrity memoirs may clue you in

This year brings memoirs from more than a dozen famous names — from Brooke Shields and Dawn Staley to Bill Belichick and Lionel Ritchie.

February 23, 2025
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  • Dhanika Pineda
The Kennedy Center on Aug. 13, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

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  • Arts & Life

Kennedy Center evacuates due to bomb threat targeting Shen Yun

A spokesperson for the Kennedy Center says the threat targeted Shen Yun, a touring dance troupe that is banned in China, because it is associated with the religious group Falun Gong.

February 20, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair

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  • Books

First known cookbook by a Black American woman gets new edition 160 years later

Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus recipes for shampoo and cologne – and remedies for toothaches.

February 20, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
Author Eric Puchner's new novel, <em>Dream State,</em> is about a love triangle that tests the decades-long friendship of two college friends.

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  • Book News & Features

New novel asks: How much can a male friendship take?

Eric Puchner's new novel, Dream State, was just named the latest Oprah book club pick. It's about a love triangle that tests the decades-long friendship of two college friends.

February 19, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong
Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks

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  • Book Reviews

Tony Horwitz's widow Geraldine Brooks writes a beautiful memoir of grief

Horwitz died suddenly in 2019 while on a book tour. In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks grieves her husband — and also reflects on the life she might have lived had they not met.

February 18, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Book News & Features

3 Harry Potter fan fiction authors are coming to a bookstore near you

Fan fiction — unsanctioned, unofficially published works based on popular novels or films — was intentionally never mainstream. The coming months will see a trio of titles by popular Draco and Hermione — Dramione — fanfic authors.

February 14, 2025
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  • Dhanika Pineda
Measles kills thousands of children across the globe every year.

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  • Health

As measles cases rise, a new book warns parents not to underestimate the disease

As childhood vaccination rates drop in the U.S., outbreaks of measles are rising. In his new book, Booster Shots, Dr. Adam Ratner makes the case that this is a bad sign for public health.

February 11, 2025
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  • Maria Godoy
Bennett Parten is the author of "Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation".

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  • History

The largest emancipation event in U.S. history happened in Georgia. A new book describes how

Sherman's march to the sea did more than just burn Atlanta to the ground. It assisted in the emancipation of thousands of enslaved people.

February 11, 2025
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  • Peter Biello
Salman Rushdie presented his book Knife at El Ateneo Library, in Madrid, Spain on May 20, 2024.

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  • National

Salman Rushdie wrote about his attempted murder. Now he will face his attacker in court

Hadi Matar, who is on trial for the knife attack against the British author, has also been accused of supporting terrorism and attempting to carry out a fatwa calling for Rushdie's assassination.

February 10, 2025
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  • Juliana Kim
Tom Robbins, at a 2014 reading of his memoir<em> Tibetan Peach Pie</em> at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing in Beaverton, Ore.

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  • Obituaries

Bestselling novelist Tom Robbins dies at 92

Robbins dazzled readers with the whimsy and imagination in his books, including Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

February 09, 2025
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  • Tom Vitale
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City, by Kay Sohini

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  • Book Reviews

'Coming to New York' stories are alive and well in these two new books

Kay Sohini's graphic memoir, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City, tells a story of migration and redefinition. Gay Talese gathers many of his great pieces about the city in A Town Without Time.

February 06, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Brittany Newell's writing has appeared in <em>The New York Times, Joyland</em> and <em>Playgirl</em>.

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  • Author Interviews

A pro dominatrix and novelist says empathy, curiosity and bravery are key to both jobs

After publishing her first novel when she was 21, Brittany Newell started working as a dominatrix. The job gave her time to write — and plenty of material to draw from. Her new novel is Soft Core.

February 06, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
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