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'They Will Have To Die Now' Recounts Retaking Of Mosul From The Islamic State

5:56pm September 17, 2019

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with journalist James Verini about his book They Will Have To Die Now, a vivid story of the battle to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State in 2016.

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18th Annual Americana Music Festival & Conference - The People Sing!

'This Machine Kills Fascists': Politics And Music With Billy Bragg

3:27pm September 17, 2019

The singer-songwriter is used to speaking and singing out against the rise of authoritarianism.

The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care, by Anne Boyer

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'The Undying' Catalogs The Unceasing Losses Of A Breast Cancer Diagnosis

1:51pm September 17, 2019

by Sascha Cohen

Arriving the year before an election that could set healthcare and disability policy for decades, Anne Boyer's memoir warns us of the human costs of any system that prioritizes profit over lives.

'Second Founding' Examines How Reconstruction Remade The Constitution

1:27pm September 17, 2019

by Terry Gross

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner talks how the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments relate to current debates about voting rights, mass incarceration and reparations for slavery.

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'Red At The Bone' Cuts Close To The Bone

10:00am September 17, 2019

by Heller McAlpin

Jacqueline Woodson's exquisitely wrought new novel follows two black families of different classes whose lives become intertwined when their only children conceive a child together in their teens.

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Attica Locke's Latest, 'Heaven, My Home,' Explores Race And Forgiveness

6:30am September 17, 2019

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with author Attica Locke about her latest book: Heaven, My Home. The story picks up with Darren Matthews, the same protagonist from her previous novel Bluebird, Bluebird.

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Investors Are On Edge After Drone Attack Hits Saudi-Owned Aramco

5:09am September 17, 2019

NPR's Noel King talks to Ellen Wald, author of Saudi, Inc., which explores Aramco and the history of the Saudi energy industry. Before the weekend drone attack, bankers were working on Aramco's IPO.

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Amitav Ghosh: 'The World Of Fact Is Outrunning The World Of Fiction'

7:19pm September 16, 2019

by Ari Shapiro

Ghosh's latest book, Gun Island, is a modern retelling of a Bengali myth. He believes old legends have a lot to teach us about how to think about the catastrophic effects of climate change.

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Judge Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in before testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Sept. 27, 2018.

Reporters Dig Into Justice Kavanaugh's Past, Allegations Of Misconduct Against Him

5:51pm September 16, 2019

by Terry Gross

A new book by The New York Times' Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly extends the investigation into the SCOTUS justice's history, chases down sexual misconduct allegations and considers his years since.

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Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals, by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers

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In 'Wildhood,' Scientists See Similarities In Adolescent Humans And Other Animals

4:45pm September 16, 2019

by Barbara J. King

Understanding the lives of animals can illuminate our own — and those of loved adolescents too. But authors Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers at times push cross-species links too far.