Head Of Swedish Academy Steps Down Over Handling Of Sex Abuse Allegations
Permanent Secretary Sara Danius resigned on Thursday from the institution that awards the Nobel Prize for literature.
Books
Former FBI Director Comey's Memoir Paints A Damning Portrait Of Trump Presidency
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Washington Post reporter Philip Rucker about what's inside former FBI Director James Comey's memoir.
5 Insights From Comey's Memoir: Ex-FBI Chief Blasts Trump As Mob-Like
In A Higher Loyalty, James Comey says the president "is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values....His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty."
Jo Nesbo Gives 'Macbeth' A Gritty, Action-Packed Update
The latest installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare series sees crime novelist Nesbo taking on the Scottish Play in an adaptation that comes alive the farther he strays from Shakespeare's original.
How Globalized Capitalism Drives Worldwide Fear And Discontentment
Author Robert Kuttner says the decline of social contracts in Western democracies has led to the rise of right-wing populism. His new book is Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
Meg Wolitzer Traces The Arc Of The Feminist Movement In 'The Female Persuasion'
Wolitzer's new novel centers on a legendary feminist and the young woman whose life she transforms. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls The Female Persuasion an absorbing and compelling work.
'Circe' Gives The Witch Of The Odyssey A New Life
Madeleine Miller's lush, gold-lit new novel is told from the perspective of Circe, the sorceress whose brief appearance in the Odyssey becomes just one moment in a longer, more complex life.
Mohsin Hamid's 'Exit West' Wins First-Ever Aspen Words Literary Prize
His magical realist novel on the lives of refugees "hints at possibilities for doing better," judges said. And it won him the prize, which recognizes fiction tackling today's thorniest social issues.
'Heads Of The Colored People' Takes On The Pressures Of Being 'The Only One'
Nafissa Thompson-Spires' new story collection is full of characters coping with being not just black in a white world — but the only black person in their worlds. She says that's a hard role to fill.
This Photographer Wants To Put A Museum In Your Pocket
When Dayanita Singh grew frustrated with the conventional gallery format, she created Museum Bhavan, an exhibition of almost 300 photos housed in a small box.