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Former first lady Jill Biden reflects on the end of her husband's 2024 campaign and her time in the White House with NPR's Scott Detrow, which she details in her new memoir, View From the East Wing.

The Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker was perhaps most well-known for the graphic memoir, and subsequent film, about her life during the Iranian revolution in 1979.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Haili Blassingame about her debut, They All Fall in Love at the End, about a young woman navigating the chaos of recent years and her polyamorous relationships.

In 'My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein,' the narrator, a writer, actually spends one month trying to understand Stein's genius, how she invented herself, and her relationship with Alice B. Toklas.

The author is known for genre-bending stories that span Southern gothic, horror and fairy tale.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with bestselling author Ann Patchett about her new novel Whistler.

What were the broken promises of the 1979 Iranian Revolution? NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with reporter Yeganeh Torbati about the new book she co-authored, Stolen Revolution.

As a classics professor, Beard has spent her career pondering life in the ancient world. The central question of her latest book is: What on earth was it like to be there?

In the cookbook, author Bobby Hicks takes readers back to the 1800s with recipes like lightning cake and lobster thermidor, through to the 1960s with gelatin rainbow cake and boeuf bourguignon.

The novel centers around three half-Japanese, half-British sisters who have returned to their childhood home in coastal Japan to deal with a family crisis.