'Everyone walked away with part of themselves healed' – 'The Color Purple' reimagined
Blitz Bazawule's musical re-imagining of the 1982 Alice Walker novel The Color Purple finds new joy among the pain.
Books
Author Alice McDermott on linking the dramas of women's lives and wartime Saigon
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Alice McDermott about her new novel Absolution and its central question: what do you sacrifice in order to do something good for someone else?
Q&A: Author Amy Yee on Tibetan refugees in 'Far From the Rooftop of the World'
Yee moved to Dharamsala in 2009 and for a year followed the lives of exiled Tibetans there. But when they started to move elsewhere, she continued to stay in touch, learning about their lives abroad.
Still shopping for the little ones? Here are 10 kids' books we loved this year
If you've found yourself reading the same picture book over and over (and over and over) to a small but determined audience we see you and salute you! Is it time to add a few new titles to the mix?
Goodreads has a 'review bombing' problem — and wants its users to help solve it
Posting a torrent of fake negative book reviews — sometimes before a book is out or has even been written — is a known problem on the literary social media site.
NPR staffers share their non-fiction picks from Books We Love
NPR staffers recommend non-fiction reads from our Books We Love list: "On Minimalism," "Anansi's Gold," "Asian-Americans in an Anti-Black World," and "The Wager."
Paul Lynch discusses his Booker Prize-winning dystopian novel 'Prophet Song'
This year's Booker Prize winner is a dystopian novel about an Irish biologist and mother of four whose husband is taken by the government. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Paul Lynch about "Prophet Song."
'The Shortest Day', a poem and children's book celebrates the winter solstice
Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail.
Ariel Lawhon's novel 'The Frozen River' follows a 1789 midwife in pursuit of justice
The year is 1789, and a New England midwife is called to investigate a dead man pulled from the ice. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ariel Lawhon about her novel, "The Frozen River."
A buffet of 2023 cookbooks for the food lovers on your list
There are a lot of cooks at NPR. Every time we ask our staff for recommendations for our annual, year-end books guide, we get back a veritable smorgasbord of cookbook offerings.