
The Week's Best Stories From NPR Books
This week: Meg Wolitzer, Charles Frazier, Jo Nesbo, Nafissa Thompson-Spires and James Sexton.Actor Mark Rylance, seen here as Thomas Cromwell in Masterpiece's Wolf Hall, views Cromwell as a survivor who knows how to manipulate power to his advantage. "He has the mind of a chess player," Rylance says. Giles Keyte/Playground & Company Pictures for Masterpiece/BBC hide caption
'Wolf Hall' On Stage And TV Means More Makeovers For Henry VIII's 'Pit Bull'
How 'One Nation' Didn't Become 'Under God' Until The '50s Religious Revival
John Hargrove, a trainer who spent 14 years working with orcas, mostly at SeaWorld, eventually became disillusioned with the company's treatment of its killer whales. Courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan Trade hide caption
Models show designs by Oscar de la Renta at the 1973 Versailles show. De la Renta was one of the first American designers to sign on for the catwalk competition. Daniel Simon/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images hide caption
How A 1970s Fashion Faceoff Put American Designers In The Spotlight
The empty frame from which thieves cut Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee remains on display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The painting was one of 13 works stolen from the museum in 1990. Josh Reynolds/AP hide caption
25 Years After Art Heist, Empty Frames Still Hang In Boston's Gardner Museum
Mai Tai Sing dances with her husband, Wilbur Tai Sing, in 1942. Courtesy DeepFocus Productions Inc. hide caption
These Nightclub Entertainers Paved The Way For Asian-Americans In Showbiz
Cinderella and her fairy godmother in the 1950 Disney cartoon. Courtesy of Disney Princess hide caption
Terry Pratchett wrote more than 70 books. Rob Wilkins/Courtesy of Doubleday hide caption
Star Wars Lords Of The Sith will feature the first official LGBT character. courtesy of the artist hide caption