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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Russia expert Hanna Notte about her new book "We Shall Outlast Them," in which she details how President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is also a war on the West.

Historian Micki McElya revisits one September afternoon in 1968, Atlantic City, when the Miss America pageant collided with a changing country. Her new book is Liberation Summer.

Her new novel "Solstice" interweaves Adam and Eve, a troubled marriage, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

NPR's Books We Love is back with some staff recommendations for novels.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Paul Yoon about his new novel, "Etna," and its main character, a dog who becomes part of a war in an unnamed country.

Co-author Maggie Haberman talks about the new book "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump," which reveals a president transformed from term one: more willing to take risks and operating almost entirely on instinct alone.

Matt Haig joined NHPR's Jackie Harris at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on June 1 to discuss his book The Midnight Train.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Hannah Lucinda Smith about her new book Hinterlands: The New Cold War Brewing at the Peripheries of the West.

The author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue, the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, discuss identity and history amid the debate over Taiwan's colonial ties to Japan and escalating geopolitical pressure from China.

The renowned classics scholar caused a stir when her critical review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey went viral. Wilson explains her reaction to the film and why she's translating the poem again.