WYPR Holiday Reading List 2018

On this episode of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews Michelle Obama's highly anticipated and wildly popular new memoir, "Becoming."

Today on Midday, Tom talks with the co-authors of the new book, "The Black and The Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law…

Produce bins at the grocery stores are filled with fruits and vegetables from around the world. What about the bounty grown close to home? Renee Brooks…

Johns Hopkins amassed millions by trying almost anything that promised to make money--investing in liquor, real estate, coal-mining, fertilizer, and more.…

Marion Winik is an author, literary critic, and humorist. She's former commentator on All Things Considered and currently a co-host on The Weekly Reader…

Lucia Berlin's posthumous debut, "A Manual for Cleaning Women," was a sensation back in 2015. On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review "Evening in…

Today, Tom’s guest is award-winning young-adult author, poet and educator Kwame Alexander. He has written 28 books, including "Booked," which was…

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, book critic Marion Winik shares a pair of books that are as much fun to listen to as they are to read. We preview…

Author Jabari Asim joins Tom in Studio A today. Asim is a former editor and columnist for The Washington Post and the Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis, the…

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we go in search of The American Dream! Marion Winik previews two new memoirs about growing up in the United States…