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'Klara And The Sun' Is A Masterpiece About Life, Love And Mortality
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'Klara And The Sun' Is A Masterpiece About Life, Love And Mortality

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Narrated by a robotic "artificial friend," Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel offers readers a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.

'Klara And The Sun' Is A Masterpiece About Life, Love And Mortality

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Dr. Seuss Enterprises Will Shelve 6 Books, Citing 'Hurtful' Portrayals

Dr. Seuss Enterprises is pulling six of the author's books, saying they "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong." Theodor Seuss Geisel, who wrote children's books as Dr. Seuss, is seen here in his La Jolla, Calif., home. James L. Amos/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption

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America Reckons With Racial Injustice

Dr. Seuss Enterprises Will Shelve 6 Books, Citing 'Hurtful' Portrayals

The decision includes books such as And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo. They have been criticized for how they depict Asian and Black people.

2 Determined Mothers Clash Over Integration Efforts In 'What's Mine And Yours'

What's Mine and Yours, by Naima Coster Grand Central hide caption

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2 Determined Mothers Clash Over Integration Efforts In 'What's Mine And Yours'

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Naima Coster about her novel What's Mine And Yours, about a North Carolina high school in the middle of an integration program in the early 2000.

2 Determined Mothers Clash Over Integration Efforts In 'What's Mine And Yours'

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Britain's MI5 Spy Agency Proves More Comic Than Tragic In 'Slough House'
Penguin Random House

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Britain's MI5 Spy Agency Proves More Comic Than Tragic In 'Slough House'

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Mick Herron's brilliantly plotted series follows a group of maladroit MI5 agents who've somehow blown it with the agency. The latest installment is a timely novel set in a post-Brexit U.K.

Britain's MI5 Spy Agency Proves More Comic Than Tragic In 'Slough House'

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Brooklyn Librarian Becomes Unlikely Star With Her Bilingual Story Time

Tenzin Kalsang's in-person story times in Tibetan and English on were held at the Williamsburgh branch of the Brooklyn Public Library system. Brooklyn Public Library's Facebook Page/Screenshot hide caption

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The Coronavirus Crisis

Brooklyn Librarian Becomes Unlikely Star With Her Bilingual Story Time

The pandemic has yielded a silver lining for the Brooklyn Public Library. Tenzin Kalsang's Tibetan story time has been drawing audiences in the tens of thousands.

Brooklyn Librarian Becomes Unlikely Star With Her Bilingual Story Time

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'It's Hard To Leave Him': 'Sympathizer' Spy Story Continues In 'The Committed'
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'It's Hard To Leave Him': 'Sympathizer' Spy Story Continues In 'The Committed'

Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning spy novel The Sympathizer told the story of a communist double agent just after the Vietnam War — his quest for revolution resumes in The Committed.

'It's Hard To Leave Him': 'Sympathizer' Spy Story Continues In 'The Committed'

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Photographers Make Kids' Wildest Dreams Come To Life

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The Picture Show

Photographers Make Kids' Wildest Dreams Come To Life

A husband and wife photography team create avant-garde and futuristic shoots for their clients. The couple hopes the portraits transcend the typical images of beauty.

Photographers Make Kids' Wildest Dreams Come To Life

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'Hunt, Gather, Parent' Offers Lessons Collected Around The World

Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans, by Michaeleen Doucleff Avid Reader Press hide caption

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'Hunt, Gather, Parent' Offers Lessons Collected Around The World

NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff found that parenting books she read after becoming a mom left a lot out. When she went through a tough period with her daughter, she traveled the world in search of guidance.

'Hunt, Gather, Parent' Offers Lessons Collected Around The World

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Rewriting The Travel Guidebook With Nanjala Nyabola

Nanjala Nyabola is an academic, traveler, and collector of guidebooks, some of which are pictured here. Nanjala Nyabola hide caption

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Nanjala Nyabola

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Rewriting The Travel Guidebook With Nanjala Nyabola

What happens when your guidebook isn't written with you in mind? Nanjala Nyabola on her new book: Travelling While Black.

Rewriting The Travel Guidebook With Nanjala Nyabola

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A Botched Execution Leads To A Search For Answers In 'Two Truths And A Lie'
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A Botched Execution Leads To A Search For Answers In 'Two Truths And A Lie'

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Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for The Miami Herald, when she witnessed an execution that went horribly wrong. She revisits the case of Jesse Tafero in an intense new true crime book.

A Botched Execution Leads To A Search For Answers In 'Two Truths And A Lie'

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Tim O'Brien On Late-In-Life Fatherhood And The Things He Carried From Vietnam

Tim O'Brien was a foot soldier during the Vietnam War. "The problem for me really is that I questioned the rectitude of the war," he says. "I thought I was doing the wrong thing by being there." Courtesy of Gravitas Ventures hide caption

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Tim O'Brien On Late-In-Life Fatherhood And The Things He Carried From Vietnam

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Now 74, O'Brien didn't become a father until his late 50s. He reflects on writing, mortality and his experiences in Vietnam in the new documentary, The War and Peace of Tim O'Brien.

Tim O'Brien On Late-In-Life Fatherhood And The Things He Carried From Vietnam

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