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Mika Brzezinski has had a long struggle with food—worrying about what and how much to eat, feeling guilty about eating junk rather than vegetables.

Lethem's tenth novel is a sweeping look at American life and politics from the 1930s to today as experienced by Rose Zimmer of Sunnyside, Queens, and her daughter, Miriam.

Put up for adoption when she was a month old, Teege is the daughter of a Nigerian father and a German mother, whose own father was Amon Goeth, the Nazi commandant responsible for clearing the Krakow ghetto and whose brutality was a focus of Schindler's List.

Johann Hari discusses his book, "Lost Connections" with Andrew Sullivan on 1/31/18. Hari, author of Chasing the Scream, changed the terms of the debate about addiction with his influential TED talk, "Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong."

Eugene Allen worked as the White House butler for thirty-four years, serving eight presidents. Wil Haygood, author of acclaimed biographies of Sugar Ray Robinson, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Adam Clayton Powell, published a front-page feature on Allen in The Washington Post.

With medical advice constantly changing, it can be hard to tell fads from sound practices.

Michio Kaku discusses his new book at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. This event was recorded live on March 28, 2014.

Taking the words of the Pledge of Allegiance literally, Winchester explores how fifty states became "one nation."

Reza Aslan is an acclaimed religious scholar, the host of the CNN series Believer, and the author of books including Zealot, Beyond Fundamentalism, and No God but God.

In his profile of JFK's cabinet, Dallek, author of the acclaimed biography of Kennedy, An Unfinished Life, presents a team of rivals—a group of brilliant individuals more notable for their differences of opinion than for presenting a united front.