This week, Megha Majumdar discusses her book, “A Burning.” The novel centers around three characters following a terrorist attack in India.
This episode originally aired in June 2020. Photo courtesy of Knopf.
Bill McKibben, often referred to as “America’s most important environmentalist,” thirty years ago offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change in his book, “The End of Nature.” Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. The new book is “Falter.” This is an Off the […] ...
This week, Kristin Hannah discusses her latest book, The Four Winds. The novel is an American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression. Hannah is the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone. (more…) ...
On this week’s Book Show, Ibram X. Kendi discusses his book How To Be An Antiracist. Kendi is the founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. He is also a columnist at The Atlantic, and author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which […] ...
