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5 insights from Comey's memoir: Ex-FBI chief blasts Trump as mob-like

5 insights from Comey's memoir: Ex-FBI chief blasts Trump as mob-like

In "A Higher Loyalty," James Comey says the president "is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values. ... His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty."

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Thread Book Hour: Author and cultural critic Roxane Gay

Thread Book Hour: Author and cultural critic Roxane Gay

The Fast and the Furious, feminism, CSI, and Little House on the Prairie. What do all those topics have in common? Writer Roxane Gay.
by MPR News Staff

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In new book, Comey says Trump 'untethered to truth'

In new book, Comey says Trump 'untethered to truth'

Former FBI Director James Comey blasts President Donald Trump as unethical and "untethered to truth" and calls his leadership of the country "ego driven and about personal loyalty" in a forthcoming book.
by The Associated Press

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Jo Nesbo gives 'Macbeth' a gritty, action-packed update

Jo Nesbo gives 'Macbeth' a gritty, action-packed update

The latest installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare series sees crime novelist Nesbo taking on the Scottish Play in an adaptation that comes alive the farther he strays from Shakespeare's original.
by Bethanne Patrick

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'Circe' gives the witch of 'The Odyssey' a new life

'Circe' gives the witch of 'The Odyssey' a new life

Madeleine Miller's lush, gold-lit new novel is told from the perspective of Circe, the sorceress whose brief appearance in "The Odyssey" becomes just one moment in a longer, more complex life.
by Annalisa Quinn

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A true story about schizophrenia

A true story about schizophrenia

Writer Sandra Allen received a fat manila envelope in the mail one day, filled with a stack of yellowed paper about a half inch thick. Allen had always heard about "crazy" Uncle Bob, but the manuscript they read that day opened up a window into the complex mind of someone living with mental illness.
by Kerri Miller and Suzanne Pekow

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In 'Varina,' a Confederate contemplates her complicity

In 'Varina,' a Confederate contemplates her complicity

Charles Frazier was done writing about the Civil War after his award-winning novel "Cold Mountain." Then he discovered the true story of the first lady of the Confederacy.
by Steve Inskeep

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'Sharp' is a dinner party you want to be at

'Sharp' is a dinner party you want to be at

Michelle Dean's new compendium of outspoken women is as stimulating and insightful as its roster of guests -- ten writers, from Dorothy Parker to Pauline Kael, who pulled no punches on the page.
by Heller McAlpin

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'Heads of the Colored People' takes on the pressures of being 'the only one'

'Heads of the Colored People' takes on the pressures of being 'the only one'

Nafissa Thompson-Spires' new story collection is full of characters coping with being not just black in a white world -- but the only black person in their worlds. She says that's a hard role to fill.
by Audie Cornish

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