Two romance books give opposite takes on love, relationships and the absence of both
In the new novel They All Fall in Love at the End, polyamory is the topic at hand — primarily what it offers the protagonist and how she nav...
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In 'Stolen Revolution,' six Iranians share perspectives on modern Iran and its future
How does a nationwide revolution affect the individual lives of its citizens? In the midst of the latest conflict in Iran, journalists Bozor...
'The Yahoo Boys' investigates Nigeria’s network of cyber crime 'sweetheart scams'
In 2022, journalist Carlos Barragán moved to Lagos, Nigeria to investigate a cybercrime network of text-based internet phishing, also known...
R.F. Kuang says there’s 'quite a lot' of herself in 'Katabasis' protagonist Alice
R.F. Kuang’s fantasy novel Katabasis , first published in 2025, is out in paperback. The book is about two rival doctoral students studying...
Theo Baker delves into power and corruption at Stanford in 'How to Rule the World'
A few years ago, Theo Baker – then a student at Stanford University – joined the school newspaper and broke a story that forced the universi...
Ann Patchett’s 'Whistler' and 'Tom Lake' are novels written with love in mind
Novelist Ann Patchett has written about things as wild as hostage takeovers, fairy tales, and betrayed magicians’ assistants. But her new no...
'A Pair of Aces' is about two women who face down the mob in 1930s New York
Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray have just published new historical fiction. Their novel A Pair of Aces is about two women in...
In 'Keeper of My Kin,' Ada Ferrer struggles with being her mother's "chosen one"
At the start of the Cuban Revolution, Adela Ferrer’s husband made an impossible decision. Her husband had fled Havana for New York, and she...
Maggie O'Farrell's novel 'Land' takes readers to a famine-ravaged yet resilient Ireland
What happened to those who remained in Ireland after the Great Famine of 1865? It’s a question that fascinated Maggie O’Farrell, author of H...
In 'View From the East Wing,' Jill Biden reflects on the debate that changed history
The first and only 2024 Biden-Trump presidential debate was not a night easily forgotten. Joe Biden’s stumbling performance and Kamala Harri...
Two new books ask: What would you do if you encountered alien life?
Today on the show: Fictional and nonfictional takes on extraterrestrial life. Steven Rowley’s new novel Take Me With You is about a man whos...
'Big Fan' investigates fandom from darts and football to Taylor Swift
Sportswriter Joe Posnanski and TV writer Michael Schur say their new book is for everyone who has risked their emotional health over a sport...
Ben Crump says 'Worse Than a Lie' is a legal thriller wrapped in Black culture
In his debut novel, the civil rights attorney Ben Crump imagines a horrific crime that feels all too real. In Worse Than a Lie , a Black ex-...
In 'Mother Tongue,' author Sara Nović examines deaf history, and writes her own
Acclaimed author Sara Nović lost her hearing at age 12. Since then, she’s learned ASL, written the best-selling novel True Biz, mothered two...
ABC News' Martha Raddatz on 'The Hero Next Door,' her collection of veterans’ stories
Martha Raddatz has reported on the U.S. military for more than 30 years. Now she’s out with a new book: The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patri...
Two new books about writing break down the creative process
Writing is hard. So is writing about writing. And, sometimes, reading about writing. But today, we have two books that attempt to break down...
In 'The Foursome,' conjoined twins marry two sisters — and that’s just the beginning
In 1839, conjoined twins and famous showmen Chang and Eng Bunker — native to Thailand, then called Siam — took a break from touring, settled...
'Cherry Baby' holds a mirror to its main character - and to the GLP-1 industry itself
Cherry Baby is a novel of perceptions. Cherry thought life couldn’t get worse when her ex-husband turned her into a caricature for his popul...
'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' chronicles the history of the Jewish Labor Bund
The history of Jewish revolutionary groups is fraught with complexity, violence and surprise — as author Molly Crabapple discovered when she...
'A Perfect Hand' is a romp through 19th-century England, with a suffragist twist
A Perfect Hand has all the ingredients of a charming Victorian romance novel: a scheming matchmaker plot, an upstairs-downstairs dynamic, an...