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October 26th, 2025

 

Chef Roy Choi, known for his Korean-Mexican fusion food trucks, focuses on veggie-forward dishes in a new cookbook. He shares techniques to get you excited about your greens, plus 3 flavorful sauces.
Author: Marielle Segarra
Posted: October 25, 2025, 9:00 am
New releases this week include a feminist history of modern Russia, and a candid portrait of Gish Jen's relationship with her mother. Plus, new novels from Philip Pullman and Claire Louise-Bennett.
Author: Colin Dwyer
Posted: October 21, 2025, 5:03 pm
The order is to be implemented at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan. Students and their families claimed their First Amendment rights had been violated when officials removed the books to comply with President Trump's executive orders.
Author: Elizabeth Blair
Posted: October 21, 2025, 4:26 pm
In 2014, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person to win a Nobel Prize, an honor that weighed on her when she went off to college. In Finding My Way, she writes about her life at Oxford and beyond.
Author: Tonya Mosley
Posted: October 21, 2025, 3:48 pm
In her new book Independent, former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre writes that party infighting, bias and disloyalty drove her to leave the Democratic Party.
Author: Majd Al-Waheidi
Posted: October 21, 2025, 9:00 am
Published months after her death, Virginia Roberts Giuffre's memoir illustrates how "victims of sexual trafficking are not born, they are made," says her collaborator.
Author: Adriana Gallardo
Posted: October 20, 2025, 9:02 am
Author Erin Somers explores marriage, desire, and the blurry space between fantasy and reality in her new novel.
Author: Andrew Limbong
Posted: October 19, 2025, 9:07 pm
Music journalist and author Kathy Iandoli talks about co-writing Episodes, Gucci Mane's memoir about his life and mental health.
Author: Andrew Limbong
Posted: October 19, 2025, 9:07 pm
Renowned comic journalist Joe Sacco on how a 2013 conflict between Hindus and Muslims in India became a window into the stories people tell about violence, identity, and belonging
Author: Andrew Limbong
Posted: October 18, 2025, 9:53 pm
Alysia Abbott was raised by a single father at the dawn of the gay liberation era. Sofia Coppola recently adapted Abbott's memoir, Fairyland, to film. Originally broadcast in 2013.
Author: Terry Gross
Posted: October 17, 2025, 5:01 pm