Books

The Pulitzer prize-winning author explores the meaning of Juneteenth to generations of African Americans.

Looking for the perfect companion for your next road trip? The Weekly Reader recommends Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and The Light, and Dawnie Walton's The Final Revival of Opal and Nev.

The writer reflects on her mother's unsettling quest for identity and offers a critique of feminism and maternity.

Today on The Weekly Reader, Amy Stanley's Stranger in the Shogun's City and Maggie Doherty's The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s.

The American essayist mines stories by four famed Russian authors for insights on writing, reading, and life.

In her debut novel, Sacks examines the human toll of the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict on a diverse and complex cast of characters.

Tom's guest now is the best-selling novelist and essayist, Anne Lamott. She is the author of 19 books, the latest of which is replete with all the…

Tom's guest today is the American author, George Saunders. He’s published hundreds of short stories, and his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, won the…

Tom's guest is the award-winning author Chang-rae Lee. He is the author of six novels. His first, Native Speaker, earned the 1996 Hemingway Foundation/Pen…

Now, a conversation with Dr. Niloofar Haeri, a linguist and a professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and the author of several books on…