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Author Yiyun Li has lost two teenage sons to suicide. Her new book is about how to think about life after the unimaginable. It's called "Things in Nature Merely Grow." Yiyun Li's new book is about ...

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...

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As we wrap up this year in books, it’s time we talk about the best of books in Louisiana. Not just books that were popular — though Louisiana has quite a few of those — but books that reveal something ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Caleb Carr, author of the best-selling novel, "The Alienist." Carr has written a memoir, reflecting on his life through the companionship of his scrappy rescue cat, Masha.

Sarah Chihaya’s memoir Bibliophobia begins in a hospital when she is in the midst of a nervous breakdown, and she wastes no time telling us what caused it: “Reader, it was the books that did it.” For ...

Reading can open our minds to new perspectives, ultimately spurring self-growth and transformation. Some books find us at the right time in our lives, their wisdom lingering in our minds long after ...

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