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'Mad House' exposes Congressional disfunction, from petty feuds to physical threats

The MAGA-controlled 118th House passed only 27 bills that became law — the lowest number since the Great Depression. Journalists Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater examine the chaos in a new book.
Dave Davies
Arts & Life

A legal scholar talks about 10 laws he says are 'ruining America'

In Bad Law, Elie Mystal argues that our country's laws on immigration, abortion and voting rights don't reflect the will of most Americans, and we'd be better off abolishing them and starting over.
Tonya Mosley
Arts & Life

'Funny Because It's True' tells the history of satirical paper 'The Onion'

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Christine Wenc, author of the new book Funny Because It's True: How the Onion Created Modern News Satire.
Scott Detrow
Books

Witchcraft and reproductive rights: The horror of Grady Hendrix's latest novel

"Witchcraft for Wayward Girls" is, in its most basic form, about unwed teenage mothers who are sent away to a "home" in Florida where they find a coven of witches in the woods. That's the short, fun version.
Katie Campbell
Politics

Federal agency responsible for library and museum funding gets a visit from DOGE

Keith E. Sonderling is the new acting head of The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country. President Trump issued an executive order last week saying he aims to close the agency.
Andrew Limbong
Books

Amy Gerstler talks new poerty book 'Is This My Final Form?'

One of its poems is about this change of season, welcoming spring.
Arts & Life

Karen Russell's 'The Antidote' is an American epic — and well worth the wait

Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel in nearly 15 years. It follows a "Prairie Witch" in Dust Bowl-era Nebraska.
Maureen Corrigan
Books

Nobel Prize-winning author takes on 'everyday, ordinary' things in new novel

Author Abdulrazak Gurnah was a surprise winner of the Nobel prize for his multigenerational saga of displacement and loss during the colonization of East Africa called Afterlives. He's back with a new book – Theft – that has a tighter focus – on a group coming of age in Tanzania in the early 2000s.
Andrew Limbong
Books

At 83, Martha Stewart celebrates gardening with her 101st book

NPR's Michel Martin talks gardening with Martha Stewart. Her new book, "Martha Stewart's Gardening Handbook," is her first gardening book in more than 20 years.
Michel Martin
Arts & Life

Colm Toibin's novel 'Long Island' follows a woman grappling with her husband's betrayal

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Colm Toibin about his new novel Long Island, which centers around a woman dealing with the fallout of a pregnancy caused by her husband's betrayal.
Mary Louise Kelly

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