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Susanna Moore tells the saga of an ambitious girl, a family's artistic fortune and a world at war. Young heroine Beatrice Palmer is whisked off to Berlin where she is put to work packing up priceless artwork in a wealthy family's mansion.

Author Terry Pratchett is best known for his 39-book Discworld series, but his latest novel, Dodger, leaves the Disc behind for a lighthearted romp through Victorian London. Reviewer Tasha Robinson says Dodger shows an author wearing his not-so-secret soft heart on his sleeve.

Olivia Laing illuminates the complex relationships between writers and alcohol in The Trip to Echo Spring — Echo Spring being, of course, the euphemism Tennessee Williams used for the liquor cabinet in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Reviewer Jane Ciabattari says the book is "beautifully written, haunting, tragic and instructive in the best sense."

In Aurora, officer Nathan Woodyard has been acquitted of all charges in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain, who died after being put in a carotid hold by police and given ketamine by paramedics.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Miles Herszenhorn, a junior at Harvard's student newspaper covering the fallout of university president Claudine Gay's testimony before congress.

Latvia joined NATO and the European Union a decade ago. Its former president sees these strong ties to the West as vital to maintaining its security and independence.

In softcover fiction and nonfiction, John Irving explores teen lust; Denise Mina delivers a murder mystery; David Maraniss looks at the young Barack Obama; Robert Kagan defends U.S. sovereignty; and Susan Cain stands up for introverts.

The 2024 national podcasting contest for middle and high school students is open for entries. It will close on May 3.

Democrats and Republicans are voting in Nevada's primary election Tuesday. It's not a typical primary day with a presumed winner on both sides, raising confusion ahead of the Republican Party caucus.

There's a bipartisan effort to close a loophole that allows cross-border e-commerce companies like Temu to avoid paying import taxes.