Blog
This is the place to find books reviewed on The Thread, cooking tools discussed on The Splendid Table, music featured on Live from Here with Chris Thile and more. We provide handy links to purchase these items on third party sites like Amazon. When you shop using our links, we earn a small commission. It’s a great way to support public media at no extra cost to you!
-
The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Hansel, Gretel and Halley's Comet link the tales in 'Alternate Endings' Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with...
Read More -
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Bottle of Lies' exposes the dark side of the generic-drug boom Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the...
Read More -
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Author Rick Atkinson turns his gaze to the American Revolution Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books...
Read More -
All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'All The Rage' isn't about moms having it all -- it's about moms doing it all Journalist-turned-psychologist Darcy Lockman offers a clear-eyed look at...
Read More -
Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say by Harriet Shawcross
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: In 'Unspeakable,' a journalist gives silence an investigative treatment As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking for almost a year, retreating into herself and...
Read More -
Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir by Jayson Greene
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: In 'Once More We Saw Stars,' grief and love together As the book opens: two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her grandmother on a...
Read More -
Orange World and Other Stories
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Karen Russell proves she's a true original with 'Orange World' Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror...
Read More -
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' is a lesson in understanding liberalism Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless...
Read More -
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Middlegame' makes mathematical magic Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power...
Read More
