Feb 28 ‘Inheritance’ is our March book club pick By Courtney Vinopal After submitting her DNA for analysis to an ancestry website in 2016, Dani Shapiro received a piece of news that rocked her to the core: The man who had raised her, her now-deceased father, was not her biological kin. Continue reading
Feb 27 Watch 7:52 New book explores the schemes and scandals of Deutsche Bank By Paul Solman The fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis revealed that some of the world's most powerful banks were involved in reckless financial dealings. Germany’s Deutsche Bank took a particularly aggressive approach -- the consequences of which are still playing out… Continue watching
Feb 26 5 ways prisoners were used for profit throughout U.S. history By Shane Bauer "American Prison" author Shane Bauer highlights a few key moments in the history of prison-as-profit in America, drawing from research he conducted for the book. Continue reading
Feb 21 Marie Yovanovitch, former diplomat pushed out by Trump, will write a memoir By Hillel Italie, Associated Press According to the publisher, the book will trace her long career, from Mogadishu, Somalia, to Kyiv and “finally back to Washington, D.C. — where, to her dismay, she found a political system beset by many of the same challenges she… Continue reading
Feb 19 Watch 6:53 This novel makes fun of your child’s meltdown A new, acclaimed novel takes a young child's meltdown and turns it into a surreal satire of modern life. In "Nothing to See Here," author Kevin Wilson uses a universal experience of parenthood to explore some incendiary family dynamics. Wilson… Continue watching
Feb 17 Watch 7:08 The long history of presidents as authors Journalist and historian Craig Fehrman has written a book called “Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote.” He sits down with John Yang to discuss the long history of presidential writing, the strategy… Continue watching
Feb 10 Why the author of ‘American Prison’ embraces people’s contradictions By Courtney Vinopal “It will make your writing much better in the end,” says Shane Bauer. Continue reading
Jan 30 Watch 3:10 Author Malcolm Gladwell on how to talk to strangers Malcolm Gladwell is an acclaimed journalist, author and host of the podcast “Revisionist History.” In his latest book, “Talking to Strangers,” he explores how humans tend to misjudge each other during their first encounters, often perceiving conflict and danger where… Continue watching
Jan 29 Watch 6:43 ‘Heart Berries’ author Terese Marie Mailhot answers your questions By Jeffrey Brown, Courtney Vinopal Terese Marie Mailhot, author of our January pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions on “Heart Berries,” and Jeff announces the February book selection. Continue watching
Jan 13 How Terese Marie Mailhot stopped writing what other people wanted By Courtney Vinopal "I found myself writing the book professors wanted me to write," said author Mailhot, before she decided to strip her "fiction for the truth." Leaving expectations behind, she wrote a memoir, "Heart Berries," because, she said, you have to deal… Continue reading