Literature

An interview with Melissa Colasanti, author of the new novel, Call Me Elizabeth Lark. A psychological thriller, the book follows the mysterious reappearance of a woman’s daughter after 20 years.

Note: This is an encore edition of our program. The original episode aired in June 2020.Beijing Payback, a debut thriller, was named one of 5 books not to…

Note: This is an encore edition of our program. The original episode aired in June 2020.Beijing Payback, a debut thriller, was named one of 5 books not to…

Imbolo Mbue's novel, How Beautiful We Were, follows a fearless young woman from a small African village as she starts a revolution against an American oil company.

Note: This is an encore edition of Reader's Corner. The episode originally aired June 2020.A Long Petal of the Sea, is an epic novel spanning decades and…

Note: This is an encore edition of Reader's Corner. This episode originally aired in June 2020.A Long Petal of the Sea, is an epic novel spanning decades…

An interview with Samantha Silva about her latest book, Love and Fury, a moving account of Mary Wollstonecraft, mother to writer Mary Shelley and arguably the world’s first feminist.

In her bestselling memoir, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains, Ariana Neumann offers a moving story of personal discovery and a portrait of living, dying, and surviving in war-torn Berlin. (Part II of interview).

In her bestselling memoir, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains, Ariana Neumann offers a moving story of personal discovery and a portrait of living, dying, and surviving in war-torn Berlin.

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…