NPR's Book of the Day
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A new picture book seeks to answer the question 'what is school for?'
Published: 4/4/2022 -
Authors Peng Shepherd and Anne Tyler show that family is...complicated
Published: 4/1/2022 -
'The Last Suspicious Holdout' looks at how humans keep on believing
Published: 3/31/2022 -
'The Beauty of Dusk' and life's calamitous challenges
Published: 3/30/2022 -
Solving systemic racism and buying sensible cardigans with comic Phoebe Robinson
Published: 3/29/2022 -
We look at Hollywood legend Rita Moreno's career after the Oscars
Published: 3/28/2022 -
Karen Dawisha and Marie Yovanovitch provide a deeper look at Russia's war in Ukraine
Published: 3/25/2022 -
A meet-cute followed by real life: 'Party of Two' is about love in the real world
Published: 3/24/2022 -
'Checkout 19' explores the magic of escaping with a good book
Published: 3/23/2022 -
'Peach Blossom Spring' interrogates the meaning of home
Published: 3/22/2022 -
Author Azar Nafisi says books can help you really live
Published: 3/21/2022 -
Lights, camera, method acting!
Published: 3/18/2022 -
Two mothers clash over integration in 'What's Mine & Yours'
Published: 3/17/2022 -
Poet Warsan Shire hopes you can make the voices in your head your friends
Published: 3/16/2022 -
Author NoViolet Bulawayo's novel 'Glory' draws inspiration from the Orwellian
Published: 3/15/2022 -
Former Attorney General William Barr says he was just doing his job
Published: 3/14/2022 -
Nikole Hannah Jones and Adam Rubin aim to make children's books more accessible
Published: 3/11/2022 -
Author Bernardine Evaristo confides in the reader in new memoir, 'Manifesto'
Published: 3/10/2022 -
Author Tessa Hadley writes a juicy tale of the bourgeois in 'Free Love'
Published: 3/9/2022 -
We travel to Iceland with its first lady on International Women's Day
Published: 3/8/2022
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