Andrew Limbong
Stories
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NPR's Books We Love: Biographies and memoirs
NPR has rounded up more than 350 of our favorite books this year. Today, we're focusing on biographies and memoirs.
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A preview of NPR's Books We Love
The 2024 edition of NPR's Books We Love is here — 350 titles recommended by critics and NPR staff.
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National Book Awards: Two poetry collections aim to give a voice to Palestinians
Two collections that deal with the war in Gaza are competing at the National Book Awards. The poets discuss poetry's power in times of great suffering and what the awards mean for Palestinian voices.
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'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey is the first Booker Prize winner set in space
Samantha Harvey talks about her new Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital. It follows a day in the life of astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
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Dance pioneer Judith Jamison dies at 81
Jamison was a dance star who led the famed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to new heights.
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Ella Jenkins, the first lady of children's music, has died at 100
Jenkins, whose signature tune was "You'll Sing A Song," received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and was known worldwide for her call-and-response songs.
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What we know about the mysterious anti-Trump art popping up around the country
Across the country, anti-Trump statues having been mysteriously appearing. Anonymous, guerilla art has a long history of mixing with politics.
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South Korean author Han Kang has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
Han Kang won "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." Her novel "The Vegetarian" won the International Booker Prize in 2016.
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'Us Fools' author, Nora Lange, on what the farm crisis has to say about today
Nora Lange’s novel "Us Fools" follows two young sisters growing up in the Midwest during the 1980's farming crisis. They're trying to figure out their lives while looking out for each other.
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Why book bans have been so hard to stop
The American Library Association's president, Cindy Hohl, is at the forefront of the fight against book censorship — a fight the ALA and other First Amendment groups have been losing.
