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Self-portrait after the avalanche, first winter ascent of Gasherbrum II, Karakorum Himalaya, Pakistan, Feb. 4, 2011. Cory Richards hide caption
In 'The Color of Everything," photographer shares how being bipolar shaped his life
Grammy award-winning soul singer Mavis Staples Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images hide caption
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer shares her leadership philosophy in her new book, True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between. Simon and Schuster hide caption
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has 'complete confidence' in Biden’s candidacy
Jill Ciment met her husband Arnold Mesches when she was his teenage art student. Random House/Random House hide caption
She was 17. He was 47. #MeToo changed how she thinks of their relationship
Author Alice Munro in 2009. Her daughter, Andrea Skinner, has come forward with allegations her stepfather abused her as a child and that Munro was aware and stayed with him until his death. Peter Muhly/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
"The first place I learned to be funny was on the schoolyard trying to defuse this weird tension around my body, says Ian Karmel. He won an Emmy Award in 2019 for his work on James Corden's "Carpool Karaoke" special with Paul McCartney. Kenny McMillan/Penguin Random House hide caption
Contestants on Love is Blind live apart from one another and do not see each other before agreeing to be married. Netflix hide caption
Emergency Quarters Illustrations © 2024 by Gracey Zhang hide caption
'Emergency Quarters' are for pay phones (remember those?) in a new book by ‘90s kids
Pedestrians walk past the Fabulosa Books store in San Francisco's Castro District on Thursday. The bookstore is sending LGBTQ+ books to parts of the country where they are censored to counter the rapidly growing effort by anti-LGBTQ+ activists and lawmakers to ban queer-friendly books from public schools and libraries. Haven Daley/AP hide caption
In Jonathan Merritt's new book My Guncle and Me, a little boy's gay uncle helps him understand that being different makes him special. Hachette Book Group hide caption
Jonathan Merritt's book reminds kids what makes them different makes them special
Freelance science writer Sadie Dingfelder is the author of the new book Do I Know You?, which explores human sight, memory and imagination. Little, Brown Spark, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company hide caption
The human brain is hardwired to recognize faces. But what if you can't?
The truth and lies behind one of the most banned books in America
Maureen Corrigan picks four crime and suspense novels for the summer. NPR hide caption
Ferris Jabr's book Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life examines the ways life and Earth have shaped each other. Lucas Heinrich/Random House hide caption