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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Emma Pattee. Her debut novel, Tilt, is about a devastating earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, and one pregnant woman's quest to get back home after it.

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The Hindu right at the time had become apologists for colonialism. Arun Shourie in a new book on V.D. Savarkar, author of the Hindutva doctrine, describes Savarkar’s numerous apologies to the ...

On 17th December 2017, a memorial was unveiled to mark the worst civilian disaster of World War II. It also represented the greatest single loss of life on the tube system, but curiously didn’t ...