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The International Booker Prize celebrates fiction that's been translated into English. This year's shortlist, announced Tuesday morning, features books in six languages from three continents.
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As the daughter of immigrants, Jessica Echevarria says she never saw herself represented in books growing up.
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NPR's Michel Martin talks about how women can get the health care they need with Dr. Sharon Malone, author of the new book, Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Desiree Evans and Saraciea Fennell about their anthology of horror stories from Black writers with the racial and gender representation they've longed for in the genre.
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In "The Little Regent," a little girl ends up ruling her West African village in an empowering story about breaking from tradition.
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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with climate change advocate and novelist Lydia Millet about her first nonfiction book: We Loved It All: A Memory of Life.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Garrard Conley about his new novel All the World Beside.
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Author Nancy Nichols says that for men, cars signify adventure, power and strength. For women, they are about performing domestic duties; there was even a minivan prototype with a washer/dryer inside.
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For 50 years, Stephen King has dominated horror literature. We wonder, is his work great literature? And we look at how the most memorable of Stephen King screen adaptations helped shape his legacy.
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In an interview with NPR, Ford says it was only a couple of years ago that she felt ready to revisit how her life was upended by Brett Kavanaugh's rise to a position on the U.S. Supreme Court.