On this week’s Book Show, Joe Donahue speaks with author Megha Majumdar. Her debut novel, A Burning, centers around three characters whose lives become intertwined after a terrorist attack in India. Majumdar’s novel discusses themes of class, fate, corruption, justice, and what it feels like to face profound obstacles and yet nurture big dreams throughout […] ...
[et_pb_section admin_label="section"] [et_pb_row admin_label="row"] [et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] Colm Tóibín's "The Magician" is an intimate portrait of one of the 20th century's most intriguing literary figures, Thomas Mann. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column] [/et_pb_row] [/et_pb_section] ...
On this week’s Book Show, Journalist Jonathan Alter discusses his new book His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life. This is the first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. ...