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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Posted: October 17, 2025, 5:01 pm