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National Public Radio’s Steve Inskeep has accepted the invitation to serve as the commencement speaker for the University of Minnesota Morris on Saturday, May 13.  Host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First, Inskeep has a passion for stories of the less famous: Pennsylvania truck drivers, Kentucky coal miners, U.S.-Mexico border detainees, Yemeni refugees, California firefighters, American soldiers.  

When her husband died in 1968, Dorothy Leavell took over as owner and publisher of both the Chicago and Gary Crusader newspapers. She assumed editorial

Here are 20 of the year’s most eagerly awaited new titles, ranging from famous names to prestige-award winners to highly anticipated first-timers.

Steve Inskeep is a co-host of NPRs Morning Edition. There are 17 cities and towns in the United States named Fremont, including Fremont, Iowa. The man who gave these landmarks his name played an important part in U.S. history, but has been largely forgotten. John C. Fremont and his wife, Jessie Barton Fremont, led remarkable lives that helped shape our nation in important ways. Steve Inskeep, co-host of NPRs Morning Edition, brings them back to life in his new book, "Imperfect Union: How Jessie...

‘Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes Rebecca Wragg Sykes argues that we’ve spent too much time studying the way Neanderthals interacted with Homo Sapiens and too little studying the way Neanderthals interacted with each other. So she tells us how they lived, treating them not as one of evolution’s failures but as our close behavioral cousins. “The fate of the Neanderthals has monopolised enormous amounts of attention,” she writes,...

MONEYWEB LIVESTREAM Happy reading. 00:01  Image: Bloomberg In the tough times of 2020, I’ve found myself drawn to nonfiction that made me look at the familiar in a different way. I’ve collected my favorite 15 books of the year here (technically, two were published in 2019, but I didn’t get around to reading them until this year). The first 14 are in random order, followed by my pick for the best nonfiction book of the year. Bonnie Tsui, “Why We Swim.” So many o...

New in Paperback: ‘Brother & Sister’ and ‘The Resisters’ By Jennifer Krauss BROTHER & SISTER: A Memoir, by Diane Keaton. (Vintage, 192 pp., $16.) Made up of journal entries, letters, poetry and collages — of which Keaton’s younger brother made hundreds as he descended into mental illness — this memoir charts the ebb and flow of a close sibling relationship. Elisabeth Egan, who interviewed the Oscar-winning actress for our Inside the List column, called it â�...