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Building Walls Are Not A Solution To A Problem, Author Says

6:37am January 16, 2019

NPR's Noel King talks to Marcello Di Cintio, author of Walls: Travels Along the Barricades, about the political and cultural effects of installing barriers between nations.

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1:54pm January 15, 2019

Immortal Technique, Taina and Reyna Grande's New Memoir

Cover detail of Ghost Wall, by Sarah Moss

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'Ghost Wall' Is An Eerie Coming-Of-Age Tale That Begs For A Second Read

1:39pm January 15, 2019

by Maureen Corrigan

Sarah Moss' beautifully written novel is set in the 1970s in the rugged countryside of the far north of England, where a group of campers are reenacting the daily lives of Iron Age Britons.

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'Inheritance' Investigates A Family Secret, With Self-Discovery At The Core

10:20am January 15, 2019

by Heller McAlpin

Dani Shapiro, at age 54, is shocked to learn that the man she thought was her biological father wasn't a blood relative. Her memoir, a quest for the truth, reads like an emotional detective story.

Muhammad: Forty Introductions by Michael Muhammad Knight

'Muhammad: Forty Introductions' Isn't Setting Out To Satisfy

5:01am January 15, 2019

by Lily Meyer

Michael Muhammad Knight's new book on the religious figure is designed to seduce, educate, and irritate its audience into curiosity about Islam and Muhammad — and on all three fronts it succeeds.

Surgeons performed more than 21,000 kidney transplants and 8,000 liver transplants in 2018, according the United Network for Organ Sharing.

A Surgeon Reflects On Death, Life And The 'Incredible Gift' Of Organ Transplant

1:57pm January 14, 2019

by Dave Davies

Joshua Mezrich has performed hundreds of kidney, liver and pancreas transplants. He shares stories from the operating room in his book, When Death Becomes Life.

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Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber Gets 'Shameless' About Sex

12:28pm January 14, 2019

by Sarah McCammon

Bolz-Weber's new book pulls from her own experiences, stories told by her parishioners and the Bible itself for an examination of the way conservative Christian ideas about sex affect our lives.

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The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary

After 24 Years, Scholar Completes 3,000-Page Translation Of The Hebrew Bible

5:02am January 14, 2019

by Rachel Martin

Literary scholar Robert Alter says he didn't think the existing English translations of the Bible did justice to the original Hebrew. So he spent nearly a quarter century writing his own — by hand.

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Showtime at the Apollo, by Ted Fox and James Otis Smith

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Keeping A Famous Theater's Myth Alive In 'Showtime At the Apollo'

10:00am January 13, 2019

by Etelka Lehoczky

This new graphic adaptation of Ted Fox's history of the Apollo Theater captures countless electrifying performances, but goes easy on the grittier aspects of the fabled theater.

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'Cat Person' Author's New Book Evokes #MeToo Themes

7:43am January 13, 2019

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Kristen Roupenian, the author of a new book of short stories called You Know You Want This. Roupenian's short story "Cat Person" went viral in 2017.