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Author Julissa Arce makes the case for rejecting assimilation in her latest book, You Sound Like a White Girl. Aly Honore hide caption
In November 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first Black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. The six-year-old was escorted by four U.S. marshals. Uncredited/AP hide caption
After Making History As A Child, Ruby Bridges Shares Her Story With Today's Kids
A novelist's time in the MMA cage informed his book on memory loss and identity
Less is Lost, by Andrew Sean Greer Little, Brown hide caption
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'Less' offers more in Andrew Sean Greer's follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning novel
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'Less' offers more in Andrew Sean Greer's follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning novel
Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and Ser Criston (Fabien Frankel) discuss country matters. HBO hide caption
40 years after she took the stage, 'Angelina Ballerina' is still dancing
Jan Bolgla and Bob Roarty have owned and operated Atlanta Vintage Books for more than 16 years. Fernando Alfonso III/NPR hide caption
Monkey thieves, drunk elephants — Mary Roach reveals a weird world of animal 'crime'
Hilary Mantel with her book, "Wolf Hall," in 2009. Alastair Grant/AP hide caption
Edward Enninful became the editor-in-chief of British Vogue in 2017. His new memoir is A Visible Man. Rafael Pavarotti/Penguin Random House hide caption
'British Vogue' editor-in-chief wants his magazine to reflect the world he sees
The Bluest Eye, The Hate U Give and Queer, There and Everywhere are among the books that have faced bans around the country. Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR hide caption
The bride and doom of Valyria: (L-R) Matt Smith, Gavin Spokes, Emily Carey, Paddy Considine, Milly Alcock, Theo Nate, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Wil Johnson, Savannah Steyn. HBO hide caption
Dear Life Kit: My husband wrote an 80-chapter book. Do I have to read it?
3 common thinking traps and how to avoid them, according to a Yale psychologist
Lisa McNair holds her memoir Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew, recounting growing up in Birmingham, Ala., after her sister Denise and three other Black girls were murdered in the Ku Klux Klan bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church. Taylor Jennings-Brown/NPR hide caption
Her sister was killed in the Birmingham church bombing. A new book tells their story
Nina Totenberg looks back on her decades-long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Ling Ma's first novel predicted the pandemic. Her new collection goes one step beyond
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Ling Ma's first novel predicted the pandemic. Her new collection goes one step beyond
