Writers & Writing

Journalist Jason Zengerle talks to NPR about his new book, "Hated By All The Right People," which explains how Tucker Carlson became one of the most influential people on the far right.

Journalist Gabriel Sherman has covered the Murdoch family for nearly two decades. In his new book, Bonfire of the Murdochs, he chronicles the protracted public battle for control the family business.

Jung Chang's 1991 bestselling book "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" told the story of her grandmother, mother, and herself surviving China's upheavals, including World War II, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Now, she continues the story.

In The One About the Blackbird, a young boy learns to play guitar from his grandfather. And there's one song in particular that they love…

Dorothy Brown, a Georgetown University law professor, lays out a case for reparations in her new book Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Ethelene Whitmire about her book, "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram," about a queer American Black man who went to Europe as World War II began, and stayed.

The Bardo is a Tibetan Buddhist idea of a suspended state between life and death. Saunders explored the concept in his 2017 novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, and circles back to it again in his new novel Vigil.

Brooke Nevils was working for NBC at the Sochi Olympics when, she says, she was sexually assaulted by Today Show host Matt Lauer — a claim he denies. Nevils' new memoir is Unspeakable Things.

"Cleavage" comes out in paperback Feb. 3.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with author George Saunders on his latest novel Vigil, and why he finds himself revisiting death in his work.