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Keary Hines, Prairie View, Texas. Ivan McClellan hide caption
A photographer documented Black cowboys across the U.S. for a new book
A sample of pages from chapter 9 of the book, which profiles poet and essayist Louise Glück. Penguin Press hide caption
In a collection of 40+ interviews, author Adam Moss tries to find the key to creation
After decades creating and publishing recipes, cookbook author Joan Nathan has released what she said is likely her final book, a cookbook and memoir called "My Life in Recipes." Michael Zamora/NPR hide caption
After years of documenting Jewish food traditions, Joan Nathan focuses on her family's
A voter leaves a voting booth in Concord, N.H., the during primary election on Jan. 23, 2024. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
How the Founding Fathers' concept of 'Minority Rule' is alive and well today
Amy Tan, author of The Backyard Bird Chronicles. Kim Newmoney/Penguin Randomhouse hide caption
Amy Tan's bird obsession led to a new book — and keeping mealworms in her fridge
George Takei 'Lost Freedom' some 80 years ago – now he's written that story for kids
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Salman Rushdie (April 8, 2024). Nickolai Hammar/NPR hide caption
What happened when the threat of danger became Salman Rushdie's reality?
In Alua Arthur's 2023 TED Talk, she said her ideal death would happen at sunset. Yeofi Andoh/HarperCollins hide caption
Death doula says life is more meaningful if you 'get real' about the end
Salman Rushdie says writing Knife allowed him to change his relationship to the attack. "Instead of just being the person who got stabbed, I now see myself as the person who wrote a book about getting stabbed," he says. Rachel Eliza Griffiths/Penguin Random House hide caption
Two nights before the attack, Salman Rushdie dreamed he was stabbed onstage
Doris Kearns Goodwin and Dick Goodwin were married in 1975. Marc Peloquin, courtesy of the author. hide caption
An American hauls in a HA-19 Japanese submarine following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Submarine warfare would prove crucial during WWII. Penguin Random House hide caption
Seizures, broken spines and vomiting: Scientific testing that helped facilitate D-Day
Amanda Montell hosts the podcast Sounds Like a Cult. She's also the author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism. Kaitlyn Mikayla/Simon & Schuster hide caption
'Magical Overthinking' author says information overload can stoke irrational thoughts
Chilean author Isabel Allende poses for a photograph in Madrid on June 5, 2017. Francisco Seco/AP hide caption
Science writer David Baron witnesses his first total solar eclipse in Aruba, 1998. He says seeing one is "like you've left the solar system and are looking back from some other world." Paul Myers hide caption
'Women Behind the Wheel' explains how cars became a gendered technology
Catherine Coldstream spent 12 years in a Carmelite monastery. Her new memoir is Cloistered. Keiko Ikeuchi /MacMillan hide caption
A former nun explains why she ran away from her 'Cloistered' life
The cover of Vinson Cunninham's Great Expectations. Headshot by Arielle Gray/Penguin Random House hide caption
Christine Blasey Ford speaks during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sept. 27, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Michael Reynolds/AP hide caption
Shohini Ghose is the author of the 2023 book Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe. Throughout the book, Ghose highlights the stories of women who have transformed physics and astronomy. Courtesy of MIT Press hide caption
This Women's History Month, how physics connects two Bengali women born decades apart
A store in Monrovia, Liberia, advertises Coca-Cola. The photo is from circa 1947. Alberts/Alberts/Three Lions via Getty Images hide caption
Left: Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden in 2020, Right: Former President Barack Obama Photo by Brendan Smialowski and JIM WATSON / AFP. ; by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
The déjà vu election; plus, losing faith in politics in "Great Expectations"
Author Percival Everett photographed in Pasadena, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2022. G L Askew II for The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
Percival Everett gives Mark Twain's classic story about Huck a new voice in 'James'
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