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5 new YA reads to check out this fall

8:51am September 07, 2022

by Caitlyn Paxson

As autumn's chill creeps in, we look to five new YA releases that will both haunt you and bewitch your heart, including books by the authors of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and The City Beautiful.

'Surveillance State' explores China's tech and social media control systems

5:42am September 07, 2022

by Emily Feng

Veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Josh Chin and Liza Lin spent years covering China. In a new book, they untangle how China built its formidable digital surveillance apparatus.

Author Peter Straub at St. Paul's School in London, when he was collaborating with the Aurora Orchestra for their touring show "Thriller" in 2011.

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Best-selling horror writer Peter Straub has died

5:40pm September 06, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Straub was 79. He was known for his supernatural themes, including Ghost Story, The Hellfire Club and, in collaboration with Stephen King, The Talisman.

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Encore: Werner Herzog's new novel is a story of the jungle and obsession and delusion

4:55pm September 06, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with filmmaker Werner Herzog about his debut novel, The Twilight World. It tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting decades after the end of WWII.

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A new novel honors the forgotten — and possibly murdered — Lucrezia de Medici

4:55pm September 06, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Maggie O'Farrell about her novel The Marriage Portrait, an imagined account of the life of Lucrezia de' Medici, who was rumored to have been murdered by her husband.

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Social media can inflame your emotions — and it's a byproduct of its design

4:23pm September 06, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Max Fisher, author of The Chaos Machine, about how social media companies leverage content that elicits anger and outrage to keep users engaged on their platforms.

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A.M. Homes on writing about characters that have different set of values from her

4:23pm September 06, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author A.M. Homes about her new book, The Unfolding, which focuses on a Republican power broker between election night 2008 and Inauguration Day in January 2009.

The six novels on the Booker Prize 2022 Shortlist.

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The Booker Prize shortlist of six works of fiction is announced

3:37pm September 06, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Among the six authors who made the Booker Prize shortlist are Elizabeth Strout, NoViolet Bulawayo and Percival Everett. The winner will be announced in October.

At 10th anniversary of Benghazi attack, former diplomat offers context in new book

2:49pm September 06, 2022

by Caitlyn Kim

Ethan Chorin, who served in Libya, presents details that most Americans don't know about the embassy attack — and explores the role domestic politics played in the aftermath.

An economist studied popular finance tips. Some might be leading you astray

6:30am September 06, 2022

by Greg Rosalsky

A Yale professor of finance read through 50 popular finance books to see how they square with traditional economic theory.