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A famed graphic novelist returns! A Southern-gothic crime-thriller inspired by The Godfather! An extremely in depth biography of Mark Twain! And more!

Andrew Limbong of the NPR Books team shares the nonfiction books he's most looking forward to reading this spring.

New on the shelves this week: An obit writer writes -- and drunkenly publishes -- his own obituary. A Hungarian teen stumbles into adulthood. And geriatric sleuth Vera Wong returns.

The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

Nunez's 2018 novel won the National Book Award. It's now a film, starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, about a woman who inherits a dog after her friend's suicide. Originally broadcast in 2019.

John Green's new book Everything Is Tuberculosis shares the same goal as his other work: to make the world "suck less." In this week's Wild Card, he shares how he battles despair.

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in an Italian prison for a murder she didn't commit. After her exoneration, she reached out to the man who prosecuted her case. Knox's new memoir is Free.

There are a lot of big subjects that our culture has trouble talking about: wealth, death, addiction, religion. But one of the toughest has to be sexual assault and rape. For how common sexual violence is - it affects over half of women and almost .. ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Emma Pattee. Her debut novel, Tilt, is about a devastating earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, and one pregnant woman's quest to get back home after it.

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.