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The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

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In A Poet's Fiction Debut, One Woman's Story Guides A Journey Through Black History

7:00am August 28, 2021

by Denny S. Bryce

Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers spent more than a decade working on her debut novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, which follows Ailey Pearl Garfield as she unearths the truths of her family.

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After Troy Falls, The Women Of This Novel Wait, Watch And Wish Things Were Different

5:00am August 28, 2021

by Annalisa Quinn

Pat Barker returns to the scene of the Trojan War in The Women of Troy, but this time after the city has fallen and its women are grieving their old lives while trying to figure out their new ones.

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For These Comic Artists, Heritage And Folklore Are Superpowers

10:03am August 27, 2021

by Zack Quaintance

A wave of new comics creators are drawing on their heritage, culture and folklore to create fantastical worlds and superpowered characters — something that wasn't possible until very recently.

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Take A Magical Mystery Tour With This Chinese Comic Artist

11:51am August 26, 2021

by THÚY ĐINH

"If I could put it into words, I wouldn't be drawing it," says one of the characters in Zuo Ma's surreal graphic novel Night Bus, a collection of stories that drives through every literary boundary.

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An Afghan Author On Losing Her Homeland — For The Second Time

9:22am August 26, 2021

by Nadia Hashimi

"It is too cruel to ask if it hurts more the first or second time a homeland is lost," says Afghan American author Nadia Hashimi, whose parents are from Kabul. "I know one never becomes numb to it."

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In 'Dopamine Nation,' Overabundance Keeps Us Craving More

2:34pm August 25, 2021

by Terry Gross

Psychiatrist Anna Lembke's new book explores the brain's connection between pleasure and pain. It also helps explain addictions — not just to drugs and alcohol, but also to food, sex and smartphones.

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Think You Know Where The Stories In 'Skinship' Are Going? Think Again

12:16pm August 25, 2021

by Maureen Corrigan

The eight short stories in Yoon Choi's extraordinary collection splinter out in unexpected ways, shifting focus from a single life to decades of complex family history.

'Seeing Ghosts' Navigates The Melancholia Of Loss — Of People, Places And Identities

6:16am August 25, 2021

by Kristen Martin

While this book would not exist without Kat Chow's grief — while Chow would not be the person she is now without that grief — her project here aims for more than just mapping her primal anguish.

Author Explores Her Family's Displacement In 'Names For Light: A Family History'

4:34pm August 24, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, the author of Names For Light: A Family History, an impressionistic story that traces her ancestors and her own journey.

Journalist: Eddie Gallagher Case Reveals A 'War For The Soul Of The Navy SEALs'

2:02pm August 24, 2021

by Dave Davies

Gallagher was court martialed for shooting at civilians from a sniper's post and murdering a defenseless captive in Iraq. New York Times correspondent David Philipps chronicles the case in Alpha.

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