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'Panther Baby,' From Prisoner To Professor
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Author Interviews
How Companies Are 'Defining Your Worth' Online
()Advertisers collect information with every digital move people make. They then target ads based on that information. Communications scholar Joseph Turow worries that advertisers will use such data to discriminate against people and put them into "reputation silos."
A 'Favored Daughter' Fights For The Women Of Afghanistan
In a new memoir, parliament member Fawzia Koofi describes her hopes for the country's future.
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Ojibwe Writer Celebrates The Beauty Of 'Rez Life'
David Treuer says coverage of reservations too often focuses on alcoholism and poverty.
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'New Yorker' Cartoonist Imagines Washington At 7
Barry Blitt's latest project is a new children's book called George Washington's Birthday.
()'King Peggy': A Cinderella Story — With A Twist()
February 19, 2012 In her new book, Peggielene Bartels describes going from secretary at the U.S. Embassy to king of a fishing village in Ghana. Dividing her time between Otuam and Washington, D.C., she straddles two cultures — and says she loves every bit of it.
Murder, Corruption And Cover-Ups In 'Bloodland'()
February 18, 2012 The seemingly accidental death of a troubled starlet is the catalyst for events in a new thriller that takes the reader from Dublin to New York to the Congo. "It's an exploration ... of the power dynamics that go on" between executive boardrooms and warlords, author Alan Glynn says.
Liu Xiaobo: 'No Enemies, No Hatred,' Only Courage()
February 16, 2012 The Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo may be imprisoned, but his voice will not be silenced. His recent writings and poems have been collected in No Enemies, No Hatred.
Nathan Englander: Assimilating Thoughts Into Stories()
February 15, 2012 In What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Nathan Englander writes about his own faith — and what it means to be Jewish — in stories that explore religious tension, Israeli-American relations and the Holocaust.
Writers Explore What It Means To Be 'Black Cool'()
February 14, 2012 In Black Cool, Rebecca Walker collects essays that assemble a "periodic table" of coolness in African-American culture. Walker and artist Hank Willis Thomas, who contributed an essay, talk with NPR's Neal Conan about the ever-evolving definition: from Nike Air Jordans to Barack Obama.
The History Of The FBI's Secret 'Enemies' List()
February 14, 2012 As J. Edgar Hoover became increasingly worried about communist threats against America, he instructed the bureau to conduct secret intelligence operations against anyone deemed "subversive." A new book, Enemies: A History of the FBI, details those and other secret intelligence operations from the bureau's creation through the current fight against terrorism.
