Culture In 'Beijing Payback,' The Immigrant Experience, But Make It A Crime ThrillerNPR - Ari ShapiroBefore writing his first book, author Daniel Nieh was an international model and a Chinese interpreter. Those previous lives shine through in Nieh's debut novel, Beijing Payback. "As a model and as a you're
Culture 'State Of The Heart' Cardiologist Assesses Breakthroughs In Heart HealthNPR - Terry GrossDr. Haider Warraich talks about advancements in treating and preventing heart failure, and explains how the understanding of healthy blood pressure and good cholesterol continues to evolve. This is FRESH
Croissant In 'My Ideal Boyfriend Is A Croissant', The Heroine Is No FlakeNPR - Alethea KontisI must say, I really am enjoying this trend of contemporary novels starring young women who are 100% body positive. Laura Dockrill's My Ideal Boyfriend is a Croissant fits squarely into that category,
Culture 'At Dusk' Exposes South Korea Through A Variety Of LensesNPR - Gabino IglesiasThere has to be an equivalent of Americana in each country; art that digs deep into the culture and history of a place in a way that allows those who consume it to get a sense of what that country's shifting
Culture In 'Queen Of The Sea,' The Story Rides On GoatbackNPR - Petra MayerCartoonist Dylan Meconis's new book Queen of the Sea is set in a convent on a tiny island, somewhere off the coast of a country that could be Tudor England, but it isn't, not quite. The story plays out
Culture A Bushel Of New Comics Collections Dig Into The Pleasures Of PrintNPR - Etelka LehoczkyIf you're reading this on your phone, drop it! (Or at least, drop it once you've finished this article.) That little screen of yours won't give you access to some of the wildest, weirdest, most innovative
Culture Spirited 'Family Of Origin' Defends The Maligned MillennialNPR - Lily MeyerEarly in Family of Origin, CJ Hauser's oddball-brilliant second novel, an aging scientist tells the two protagonists, a pair of estranged sort-of-half-siblings named Nolan and Elsa Grey, that their generation
Culture An Imagined Future Speaks In 'Talking To Robots'NPR - Adam FrankIn the decade or so since Siri and her compatriots first appeared, we've all gotten pretty used to having conversations with computers in various forms. While your Alexa doesn't look much like a Cylon
Culture 34 Ways To Beat The System In 'Raised In Captivity'NPR - Jason SheehanSo there's the one about the puma in the airplane toilet. The one about the time traveler who doesn't feel like saving the world. The one about the fake-woke boyfriend. The one about the woman hiring Ultimate
Culture Letters Serve To Bond Time-Traveling Rivals In 'This Is How You Lose The Time War'NPR - Jason SheehanThe problem with time-travel stories is the haywire factor: Their tendency (almost guaranteed) to, at some point, just go completely off the rails. See, there's an in-built suicide switch in a time-travel
Culture For The 'Nickel Boys,' Life Isn't Worth 5 CentsNPR - Michael SchaubThe long string of horrors that took place at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys wasn't a secret, but it might as well have been. Former students of the Florida reform school had spoken out for years
Langston Hughes In Lost Essay, Langston Hughes Recounts Meeting A Young Chain Gang RunawayNPR - Ari ShapiroWhen Steven Hoelscher first came across an essay with Langston Hughes' name on it, he says it felt "totally random." Hoelscher, a professor at University of Texas at Austin, was doing research in the of
Culture Your Local Library May Have A New Offering In Stock: A Resident Social WorkerNPR - Colin DwyerTrish doesn't have many places to turn. She's living at her elderly father's home without a job because she can't afford the care he needs. And every day she says the balance sheet seems stained with red
Exponential Finance Conference 'Escalante's Dream' Retraces The Steps Of The 'Spanish Lewis And Clark'NPR - Carson VaughanPerhaps the greatest irony of the road trip, what Escalante's Dream author David Roberts calls "that quintessentially American concoction," is the façade of structure. Weight-bearing or purely ornamental,
Boko Haram Journalist Isha Sesay On Boko Haram And The Fight That Never Ended - 1Athe1a.org In 2014, then-CNN journalist Isha Sesay broke the story of ISIS-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram, which kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in …
George Takei George Takei Recalls Time In An American Internment Camp In 'They Called Us Enemy'NPR - Etelka Lehoczky"Shame is a cruel thing," writes George Takei in They Called Us Enemy, his new graphic novel about his childhood years in an American concentration camp during World War II. "It should rest on the perpetrators,
Culture A Look At The Vulnerabilities And Capabilities Of American CybersecurityNPRNPR's Ari Shapiro talks with former U.S. counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke about his new book, The Fifth Domain, co-written with Robert Knake. In military speak, the fifth domain of warfare cyberspace.
Music 'Jazz From Detroit' Offers A Mosaic Portrait Of A Larger SceneNPR - Kevin WhiteheadMark Stryker covered jazz and its people for the Detroit Free Press for decades. He uses his reporter's eye and critic's ear to chronicle the musicians from the city who made their mark on the world. is
Culture Colson Whitehead On The True Story Of Abuse And Injustice Behind 'Nickel Boys'NPR - Dave DaviesWhitehead's new novel is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. "If there's one place like this, there are many," he says. And if that enthusiastic review
Culture Rooted In History, 'The Nickel Boys' Is A Great American NovelNPR - Maureen CorriganIt's pretty rare for a writer to produce a novel that wins the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and, then, a scant three years later, bring out another novel that's even more extraordinary. that's
Culture We All Watch In Our Own Way: A Critic Tracks The 'TV Revolution'NPR - Terry GrossWhen TV critic Emily Nussbaum was growing up in the '70s, she says television wasn't something to be analyzed, criticized and picked apart. "Even people who loved to watch TV would put it down," she recalls.
Culture 'Spin The Dawn' Stitches Up A Fabulous FantasyNPR - Caitlyn PaxsonMaia Tamarin is the best tailor along the Great Spice Road. The problem is that girls aren't allowed to be tailors, so she has to hide her work behind the facade of her father's shop. And with her family
Culture Lesley Nneka Arimah Wins 2019 Caine Prize For African WritingNPRNPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah, winner of the 2019 Caine Prize for African Literature, about her short story Skinned. The Caine Prize, awarded each year to a short
Mueller Report Mark Bowden Talks Process Of Adapting Mueller Report Into Graphic NovelNPRNPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down, about the process of adapting the Mueller Report into a graphic novel. We're going to go back now to the Mueller report,
Culture 'The Golden Hour' Is A Refreshingly Bittersweet ReadNPR - Denny S. BryceWar is a brutal black hole that rips families apart, separating children from their mothers, husbands from their wives, and lovers from their secrets. War also spurs people to extremes — extreme passions,
Culture New Thriller 'The Chain' Has An Origin Almost As Exciting As Its PlotNPR - Lynn NearyWriters, like all artists, are willing to give up a lot to keep doing what they love best. But sometimes, reality bites, and dreams have to be put aside in order to put food on the table. That's what to
Culture 'The Chain' Asks: How Far Would You Go For Your Child?NPR - Paddy HirschIf your child was kidnapped, how far would you go to get her back? In the movie Taken, Liam Neeson's retired CIA officer chases one man to his death, tortures another and kills a half dozen more. Good
Culture Colson Whitehead On 'The Nickel Boys'NPRNPR's Scott Simon talks to acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead about his new novel, The Nickel Boys, which is based on the horrors of a real juvenile reformatory academy. Elwood Curtis is a brilliant earnest
Culture Keith Hernandez On Baseball, 'Seinfeld' And Being His Own 'Worst Enemy'NPR - Dave DaviesThe former first baseman played on championship teams with the Cardinals and Mets, and made a memorable appearance on Seinfeld. His memoir is I'm Keith Hernandez. Originally broadcast June 4, 2018. This
