"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."
—Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-71) French philosopher, encyclopedias
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Decades Later And Across An Ocean, A Novel Gets Its Due
Sun, 19 May 2013 16:09:00 -0400
John Williams' Stoner sold just 2,000 copies when it was originally published in 1965. It's now acknowledged as a classic work, is a best-seller across Europe and the No. 1 novel in the Netherlands.
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Unacceptable Anger From 'The Woman Upstairs'
Sun, 19 May 2013 16:09:00 -0400
"Women's anger is very scary to people," author Claire Messud says. Her new novel, The Woman Upstairs, features a seething main character, a young woman whose anger is unsettling.
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Siblings' Separation Haunts In 'Kite Runner' Author's Latest
Sun, 19 May 2013 05:41:00 -0400
Khaled Hosseini's new novel, like his two earlier works, is set partly in Afghanistan — but this time, political turmoil isn't a major element of the plot. Instead, And The Mountains Echoed is a story of a family's loss that spans decades and continents.
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Stories Of Hope Amid America's 'Unwinding'
Sun, 19 May 2013 05:41:00 -0400
When the factory she worked at closed down, Tammy Thomas reinvented herself as a community organizer; and when Dean Price's truck stop business went belly up, he became a champion of biofuel. In a new book, George Packer examines how ordinary people are adapting to a new America.
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'Waiting To Be Heard' No More, Amanda Knox Speaks Out
Sat, 18 May 2013 16:41:00 -0400
Less than two months into her study abroad program in Italy, Amanda Knox was accused and eventually convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher. After her conviction was overturned, Knox returned home to Seattle — and now faces a potential retrial. Knox tells her story in a new memoir.
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Dan Brown: 'Inferno' Is 'The Book That I Would Want To Read'
Sat, 18 May 2013 05:13:00 -0400
Dan Brown, author of the blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, is back with his first novel in four years. Inferno follows academic hero Robert Langdon on a chase through Italy as he attempts to avert a biological catastrophe.
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'That's That': A Memoir Of Loving And Leaving Northern Ireland
Sat, 18 May 2013 05:13:00 -0400
Colin Broderick's new memoir, That's That, chronicles his childhood in Northern Ireland during the modern-day "Troubles." Broderick says growing up in what was essentially a war zone seemed normal to him at the time.
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Author Elliott Holt Says: 'Go West, Young Woman'
Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:00 -0400
In this Q&A, author Elliott Holt discusses her six favorite novels about expatriates. She also talks about what it's like to be in your 20s, and the importance of travel and exploration.
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'Picture Cook': Drawings Are The Key Ingredients In These Recipes
Fri, 17 May 2013 14:45:00 -0400
Designer Katie Shelly's upcoming cookbook offers 50 illustrated recipe "blueprints" for basic meals — from simple snacks to more hefty dishes like eggplant Parmesan. She hopes they'll inspire any level of cook to improvise in the kitchen.
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Resetting the Theory of Time
Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400
Generations of physicists have claimed that time is an illusion. But not all agree. In his book Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that time exists--and he says time is key to understanding the evolution of the universe.
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Insects May Be The Taste Of The Next Generation, Report Says
Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400
A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says insects offer a huge potential for improving the world's food security. Peter Menzel, co-author of Man Eating Bugs, describes some insect-based cuisine and the western aversion to creepy-crawly snacks.
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When Great Scientists Got It Wrong
Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400
In Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein, astrophysicist Mario Livio explores the colossal errors committed by scientific greats, from chemist Linus Pauling's botched model of DNA, to Charles Darwin's failure to understand genetics--the very mechanism of natural selection.
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Neil Gaiman Turns His Grad Speech Into 'Good Art'
Tue, 14 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400
Neil Gaiman's new book is based on a speech he delivered to graduates of Philadelphia's University of the Arts. When life gets tough, he told them, "make good art." It's advice that served him well when he turned a failed '90s TV series into the "much-loved" novel Neverwhere.
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In Somalia, Surviving A Kidnapping Against 'Impossible Odds'
Tue, 14 May 2013 03:28:00 -0400
In 2011, Jessica Buchanan, an aid worker in Somalia, was kidnapped by land pirates. For 93 days she fought off despair while her husband, Erik Landemalm, wondered if he'd ever see her again. In a two-part interview, Buchanan and Landemalm recall Buchanan's capture and her dramatic rescue by Navy SEALs.
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'Guns At Last Light' Illuminates Final Months Of World War II
Tue, 14 May 2013 03:26:00 -0400
Historian Rick Atkinson's new book completes his trilogy on the second world war. He tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that the events of the war may be 70 years in the past, but they're still very much a part of American culture.
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