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Three new books chronicle businesses where executive self-enrichment at the expense of workers — and sometimes the law — prevails.

Audiobooks have let the artist “stay invested in stories while working with my hands.” Her new project: illustrating Jamaica Kincaid’s “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children.”

He fought prejudice and incarceration during World War II to lead a successful career, becoming one of the first editors of color at a metropolitan newspaper.

The free-expression group has been engulfed by debate over its response to the Gaza war that forced the cancellation of its literary awards and annual festival.

Sitting down for lunch with Reese Witherspoon, whose book picks have become a force in the publishing industry.

When her career hit a wall, the Oscar-winning actor built a ladder made of books — for herself, and for others.

A conservative group posted a social media thread showing flyers in a border encampment in Mexico urging migrants to vote for Joe Biden. Now, the woman caught up in it, speaks to NPR. For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider

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A little less than six months out from the general election, it seems like a new poll comes out every few minutes. In the constantly shifting data, every presidential candidate wants to know how to attract voters under 30.Learn more about sponsor

In fiction, Ali Sethi wrote about being queer in Pakistan. Now he’s singing his story.