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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, shown here on Jan. 4, 2021, continues to embrace the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen.

Does Marjorie Taylor Greene represent the future of the Republican Party?

1:15pm October 19, 2022

by Dave Davies

Journalist Robert Draper says the GOP's embrace of extremism opened the door to fringe actors, who've become among the party's most influential leaders. His new book is Weapons of Mass Delusion.

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Author George Saunders on his new book, "Liberation Day: Stories"

4:26pm October 18, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with George Saunders about his new book, "Liberation Day: Stories."

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'New Yorker' culture critic says music and mixtapes helped make sense of himself

1:56pm October 18, 2022

by Terry Gross

The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Hua Hsu defined himself as a teen by the music he loved. The murder of a close friend when he was in college changed the course of his life. His memoir is Stay True.

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In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press by Katherine Corcoran

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'In the Mouth of the Wolf' examines the murder of a Mexican investigative reporter

8:00am October 18, 2022

by Marcela Davison Avilés

Since 2000, more than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico. Among them is Regina Martinez, a veteran journalist reporting on government corruption and human rights abuses in Veracruz state.

Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862. He issued the formal Emancipation Proclamation the following January. Lincoln was under tremendous pressure to withdraw emancipation as a precondition for peace talks with the Confederacy.

Lincoln prioritized democracy over his political future. A new biography explains why

7:03am October 18, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It examines Lincoln's actions as well as motivations.

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Ex-NBA star Abdul-Rauf writes about not standing for the national anthem in new book

5:06am October 18, 2022

NPR's A Martínez speaks with former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf about his autobiography: In the Blink of an Eye.

Toast was a very small cat, Saha said, but the loudest one he has met.

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The story behind a new book's strange dedication to Toast the cat

5:00am October 18, 2022

by Halisia Hubbard

"For Toast, the cat, who was no help at all," reads the dedication page of researcher Jonathan Saha's book, Colonizing Animals. A picture of the page went viral on Twitter.

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka holds his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida at the Shaw Theatre in London on Oct. 14. On Monday, his novel won the 2022 Booker Prize.

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize

5:48pm October 17, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The prestigious award was given to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which the judges hailed as "a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war."

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She survived a mass shooting in 2015, and she's sharing her story in a graphic novel

4:30pm October 17, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with artist Kindra Neely about her debut graphic novel, Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting.

Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning addresses reporters outside a U.S federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., in 2019.

Chelsea Manning shared secrets with WikiLeaks. Now she's telling her own story

2:16pm October 17, 2022

by Dave Davies

The former military analyst has been called both a hero and a traitor for leaking classified information about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In a new memoir, she talks about why she did it.

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