Updating Frankenstein For The Age of Black Lives Matter
The classic tale of the Monster resurrected from the dead gets a new treatment in Victor LaValle's new limited-series comic.
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ExxonMobil Uses Carbon Tax Strategy To Its Advantage, Author Says
ExxonMobil and several other oil companies are backing a Republican-led plan for a carbon tax. Steve Inskeep talks to Steve Coll, author of the book Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power.
In The Event Of Attack, Here's How The Government Plans 'To Save Itself'
In Raven Rock, Garrett Graff describes the bunkers designed to protect U.S. leaders in the event of a catastrophe. One Cold War-era plan put the post office in charge of cataloging the dead.
'The Sarah Book' Is An Unsparing Primal Scream Of A Book
Scott McClanahan's semi-autobiographical novel is packed with loss, pain and existential anguish, but his narrator — also named Scott — refuses to give up, no matter how often he's knocked down.
Eddie Izzard: Coming Out Gave Me The Confidence For Everything Else
Fair warning: There are no actual jazz chickens in Eddie Izzard's new Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens. But it does provide insight into what makes the acclaimed comedian tick.
'The Alchemist's Daughter' Is No Frankenstein's Monster
Theodora Goss's novel takes bits and pieces from several different monstrous mythologies — Jekyll and Hyde, Dr. Moreau and more — but she makes something new and deceptively intricate out of them.
Sherman Alexie Says He's Been 'Indian Du Jour' For A 'Very Long Day'
Alexie is excited for a new generation of Native American writers to come on the scene, "so I don't have to answer all the questions," he says. His new memoir is You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.
Sherman Alexie's New Book Is An Emotional Memoir About His Mother
Sherman Alexie has often turned to his childhood on the Spokane Indian Reservation for inspiration. Now, he looks at the life of his mother in a memoir called You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.
Bookstore Owner Sues California Over Law Regulating Autographed Items
A new California law regulates how autographed items may be sold. Originally intended to cover sports memorabilia and an apparently thriving market in fake autographs, bookstores are worried it will shut down popular author book signings. Now one of them has filed suit.
South Africa's District Six Cookbook Helps Preserve A Lost Community
By the 1980s, 60,000 people had been forcibly removed from this mixed-race section of Cape Town. But the area's food traditions reflect the spirit of helpmekaar, an Afrikaans term for mutual support.