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Frida Kahlo mystery
The book, "Finding Frida Kahlo," documents a treasure trove of more than 1,000 previously unknown Kahlo items--but their authenticity is in question.
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New novel about surviving Africa's ethnic violence
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Tracy Kidder wrote "Strength in What Remains," the true story of a man who survived the ethnic violence between Burundi and Rwanda and managed to find his way to the United States....
The young-adult novel, "The Vast Fields of Ordinary"
The young-adult novel, "The Vast Fields of Ordinary" is the story of Dade, a young man growing up gay in Iowa and his eventful summer between high school and college....
Novelist Lionel Shriver on parenthood
Shriver's book, "We Need to Talk about Kevin" raises questions about the limits of maternal love and the nature of evil itself. ...
Frank McCourt
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt passed away on July 19 -- we pay tribute to him with this 'Studio 360' interview from 2002. ...
What belongs on the Five Foot Book Shelf?
"Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf" was a list of literature classics compiled by Harvard president Charles Eliot back in 1909. Last week we asked YOU to tell us which books you'd put on a Five Foot Shelf in 2009....
Britain's first female poet laureate
The post is over 300 years old, but Carol Ann Duffy is the first woman to be named poet laureate in the UK....
Forecasting a warmer world
Predicting the changes that could accompany rising global temperatures and what the future might hold....
Genre Busters
The fight over genre fiction -- genre busters like Michael Chabon, Richard Price and others talk about the writings that transcend genres. ...
