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Ty Seidule's book, Robert E Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, offers a personal challenge to the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy, and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed. -
"Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration" examines the continent’s fraught history of repression and resistance and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.
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Lydia Millet’s newest novel, A Children’s Bible, was nominated for the National Book Award, and called a masterly allegory for the climate crisis. The… -
This interview was originally broadcast in May, 2020. On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec…
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In her latest novel, The Mountains Sing, author Nguyen Phan Que Mai tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the…
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This is an encore presentation.In Erica Ferencik’s hypnotic, violent, and unsparing thriller -- named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the…
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In his latest book, Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party, Marc J. Johnson reexamines the defeat of…
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In an era of rising corporate profits and anemic wage gains, low-paid jobs and blighted blue-collar communities have become an all-too-common feature of…
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This interview was originally broadcast in September, 2019.On the home front, Russia is a nation in turmoil. A flagging economy, shrinking population,…
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In "This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto," an NPR Best Book of the Year, renowned author Suketu Mehta draws on his own experience as an…
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This is an encore presentation.Lauren Wilkinson’s debut novel, American Spy, has been named one of the best of 2019 by Esquire, Time, Vogue, and a host of…
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When did America give up on fairness? Kurt Andersen's Book Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America, A Recent History tells the epic history of how America…
