The 2026 Banff Mountain Book Competition finalists are announced!

Te-Ping Chen, an accomplished author and journalist, is set to release her debut novel titled *Sojourners*, scheduled to

‘Opening lines delivered on the apps frequently began with “lift UP the cap and let me see”. Or “Is that your bitch?”’ A short story by Halle Hill.

The artist and archivist behind the Instagram archives Veteranas and Rucas and Map Pointz reflects on family history, party crew culture and the neighborhoods that shaped her.

Plus, terrible humid weather and the short story boom in Hollywood continues.

With "East of the River: A Memoir of Los Angeles Girlhood," Rosales has written a coming-of-age story fit for the big screen.

The Vanishing Act, the debut novel by Eoin Connolly, follows Colm, an anxious and isolated copywriter whose days are spent scrolling through his phone, worrying about climate catastrophe, and sharing ...

The first half of the year produced some of the best debuts in recent memory. And the upcoming months promise to follow up with just as many unforgettable books from writers with promising careers ahe...

This month brings power-packed new releases from Marlon James, Min Jin Lee and Malcolm Gladwell, plus a vibrant L.A. memoir by local legend Guadalupe Rosales.

“Whatever part of Tehran / I place a hand on, it is aching.”

Whether you’re looking for a deeply personal memoir, an eye-opening [...]

From literary fiction to buzzy romances, these 25 new releases belong on your list

It looks like mainly sapphic fantasies this week, but there are a couple of others thrown in to mix it up. Via Mail Universe of Grace by Rachel Calnek-Sugin A dazzling, kaleidoscopic debut novel about the life of a precocious girl in Philadelphia trying to figure out who—or what—she is. One afternoon, on a visit to the Bronx Zoo, a jaguar tells six-year-old Grace Goldberg-Li she isn’t human.

Any day now, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the Trump administration’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship. But beyond the ruling, the fight for who belongs in a country is much older and broader than the United States. Gene talks with Daisy Hernández, the author of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth, about what we can learn from both other nations’ and our own history about where we might be headed. See pcm.adswizz.com (https://pcm.adswizz.com) for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy (https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy)

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With opioids ravaging communities, the U.S. could learn from this 1971 policy.

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Author Daisy Hernandez discusses we welcome some immigrants and shun others.

On Thursday morning, June 4, I woke to the tragic and shocking news of Marjane Satrapi’s death. It was not the first time I had learned of a loved one’s loss in exile in the most mundane, alienatin…

Airdate: Monday, February 23 at 10 AM Citizenship allows you to vote, get a passport and run for office – and it's supposed to be a promise of protection, equality and belonging. But as immigration…

“I hope that readers will take it upon themselves to think and feel like they are also the authors of the story of citizenship.”

An excerpt from Emily Dufton's book 'Addiction, Inc.'

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La autora Daisy Hernández denuncia en su nuevo libro 'Citizenship' que la "ciudadanía" es un "mito" en Estados Unidos, donde el concepto ha "cambiado" bajo la presidencia de Trump

Award-winning author Daisy Hernández joins co-hosts Jennifer Maritza McCauley and Whitney Terrell to talk about her new book, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth. Hernández explains the history …

Here are our most anticipated LGBTQ+ book picks for February! There's a little bit of something for everyone!

This obsession with citizenship, which began in the 1990s, surged after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the subsequent War on Terror. Politicians charged that there were now citize…

It’s a powerful film that has received praise during its festival runs and limited theatrical release in the past couple of months.

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I’m supposed to believe my womanhood is ending but instead, I have been handed a new beginning