This week on The Book Show, Author Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing – and have done – with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet. His new book is Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World.
Karen Russell's latest, “The Antidote,” is a dust bowl novel and a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting that enacts the settler amnesia and omissions...
Stewart O’Nan’s latest novel “Ocean State” is a compelling story about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do.
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich’s new book is a ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and...
