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In 'Walkaway,' A Blueprint For A New, Weird (But Better) World

7:00am April 27, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

Cory Doctorow's latest novel is set in a ripped-from-the-headlines near future dystopia, where the creative and the capable — and the lost — are walking into the wilderness to build a new world.

The few fertile women remaining in the oppressive Republic of Gilead must serve as reproductive surrogates for powerful leaders in the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale.

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'Handmaid's Tale' Wants You To Feel Like 'This Could Happen Here'

6:26pm April 26, 2017

by Audie Cornish

Elisabeth Moss and Samira Wiley star in Hulu's TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel — in which fertile women become reproductive surrogates for powerful men and their barren wives.

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The diary that John F. Kennedy wrote during the summer of 1945, in between his military service and first campaign for Congress, when he worked as a journalist for Hearst Newspapers.

Now You Can Own JFK's Personal Reflections On History, For A Hefty Price

4:49pm April 26, 2017

by Todd Bookman

As a young journalist seven decades ago, John F. Kennedy witnessed a bombed-out Berlin and Adolf Hitler's bunker. Bidding on his diary starts Wednesday and is expected to top $200,000 Wednesday.

Michael Bloomberg And Carl Pope On 'Climate Of Hope'

7:30am April 26, 2017

Rachel Martin speaks with former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former chairman of the Sierra Club Carl Pope about how cities should respond to climate change. Their book is Climate of Hope.

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'Maud' Doesn't Quite Live Up To Its Heroine's Example

7:00am April 26, 2017

by Caitlyn Paxson

Lucy Maud Montgomery — creator of Anne of Green Gables — seems like the perfect subject for a work of young adult fiction. But Melanie Fishbane's Maud feels like a draft of a Montgomery story.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg speaks at the American Enterprise Institute in 2016.

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'Just Show Up': Sheryl Sandberg On How To Help Someone Who's Grieving

5:10pm April 25, 2017

by Ari Shapiro

The Facebook executive lost her husband in 2015. She says, "Rather than offer to do something, it's often better to do anything. Just do something specific." Her new book is called Option B.

The haunting opening page of Guy Delisle's Hostage.

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Gripping Comics Memoir 'Hostage' Puts You In The Room Where Nothing Happens

2:12pm April 25, 2017

by Glen Weldon

Cartoonist Guy Delisle departs from the first-person travelogue format which has won him acclaim to chronicle the true story of a man kidnapped and detained for months in the Caucasus region in 1997.

The inmates in Bellevue are awaiting trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from sleeping on the subway to murder.

Psychiatrist Recalls 'Heartbreak And Hope' On Bellevue's Prison Ward

1:46pm April 25, 2017

by Terry Gross

Dr. Elizabeth Ford treated mentally ill inmates in New York City for more than a decade. It was almost universal, she says, that they had suffered abuse or significant neglect as children.

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'Anything Is Possible' Is Unafraid To Be Gentle

7:00am April 25, 2017

by Heller McAlpin

Elizabeth Strout's new novel-in-stories is a welcome salve for troubled times. A companion volume to last year's My Name is Lucy Barton, Anything is Possible looks at the people Lucy grew up with.

Author Robert Pirsig and his son Chris in 1968. Pirsig, who wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, died Monday at age 88.

'Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' Author Robert M. Pirsig Dies At 88

5:59pm April 24, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Zen was published by William Morrow in 1974, after being rejected by 121 publishing houses. The book has endured as a work of popular philosophy, and inspired many a road trip across the West.