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Jan 09, 2021 Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week: To 'Keep Sharp' This Year, Keep Learning, Advises Neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta: CNN's chief medical correspondent says it's never too late to develop new brain pathways. Even small changes, like switching up the hand you use to hold your fork, can help optimize brain health. 'Outlawed' Front...

Book World: A thrilling, fresh take on the western Ron Charles, The Washington Post Jan. 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - It still surprises me that some of my favorite novels are westerns. It no longer surprises me that they're written by women. The territory once dominated by Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour has long since been opened up by Paulette Jiles, Mary Doria Russell, Molly Gloss and other women who have cut fresh trails in this old genre. The latest foray comes from Anna North, a reporter for Vox. Her new novel, "Outlawed," stirs up the western with a provocative blend of alt-history...

Talking to friends this past week, I've described Anna North's new novel, Outlawed, as The Handmaid's Tale meets Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. That's a glib tagline, but there's some justification for it. Outlawed opens in an alternative America of 1894 that was torn asunder by a flu epidemic some 60 years earlier. West of the Mississippi, centralized government has been replaced by a patchwork of Independent Towns. One of the few things this fragmented America agrees on is that women are put on Earth to bear children. That's it. And, because too much knowledge, especially medical k...

Reese Witherspoon popped up on Instagram in the cutest cowboy outfit to reveal the book she swears by to start the new year right

Outlawed, as The Handmaid's Tale meets Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. That's a glib tagline, but there's some justification for it. Outlawed opens in an alternative America of 1894 that was torn asunder by a flu epidemic some 60 years earlier. West of the Mississippi, centralized government has been replaced by a patchwork of Independent Towns. One of the few things this fragmented America agrees on is that women are put on Earth to bear children. That's it. And, because too much knowledge, especially medical knowledge of women's bodies, is frowned upon, "barren" women are regarded as...