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Revisiting Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’ (2025.10.25)
Vecākas epizodes
- 'Paper Girl' and 'Joyride' are memoirs by journalists who get close to their subjects 2025.10.24
- This Palestinian journalist kept a diary as Israeli forces invaded – now it’s a book 2025.10.23
- A new James Baldwin biography asks how the writer’s lovers might’ve shaped him 2025.10.22
- Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir recounts abuse by Epstein, Maxwell and others 2025.10.21
- Ken Liu’s latest novel ‘All That We See or Seem’ is speculative fiction about AI 2025.10.20
- Books We’ve Loved: Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, a blueprint to the modern romance 2025.10.18
- Cookbooks 'House of Nanking' and 'Boustany' honor rich family legacies through food 2025.10.17
- 'I Am You' fictionalizes the story of a Dutch Golden Age painter and her maid 2025.10.16
- 'The Persian' is a spy thriller written by former CIA analyst David McCloskey 2025.10.15
- In her new memoir, Jeannie Vanasco gets 'A Silent Treatment' from her mom 2025.10.14
- 'Pick a Color' is a novel that takes place over a single day at a nail salon 2025.10.13
- Introducing: Books We've Loved 2025.10.11
- These new mystery novels are 'whodunits' that might as well be called 'whydunits' 2025.10.10
- In 'Dream School,' Jeff Selingo wants parents to rethink what makes a ‘good’ college 2025.10.09
- For her latest novel, Patricia Lockwood says she wanted to write about confusion 2025.10.08
- Mariana Enriquez’s new book connects her interest in cemeteries with Argentina’s past 2025.10.07
- 'For the Sun After Long Nights' is a history of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement 2025.10.06
- Two new history books use the past to explain what’s important now 2025.10.03
- 'F*** Approval, You Don’t Need It!' makes the case against ‘people pleasers’ 2025.10.02
- Angela Flournoy’s 'The Wilderness' focuses on a Black, female ‘chosen family’ 2025.10.01
