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In 2023, at 22 weeks, Lauren Christensen and Gabriel Bump discovered that their unborn daughter was dying in the womb. “Firstborn,” Christensen’s wrenching new memoir, looks back at the experience.

Talking with the Durham writer about his new memoir, which takes him around the world and back to a Durham wine bar, as he grapples with belonging, heritage, and hospitality.

Tracy Deonn, who grew up in North Carolina and attended UNC-Chapel Hill, doesn’t shy away from her Southern roots.

Christensen’s new book “Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century” comes out from UNC Press this month.

“All That We Ask of You Is To Always Be Happy,” Durham poet Bridget Bell’s debut collection, comes out on February 4.

Ahead of a book tour stop at Duke University, the host of popular podcast “The Memory Palace” chats about storytelling, butter sculptures, and how learning about the past can crack open greater possibilities for the present.

Talking with Bill Adair about his new book “Beyond the Big Lie,” how misinformation became mainstream, and how we can correct course.

Rogers, who was born in Greensboro, is the author of “Miss Southeast,” a new essay collection about coming-of-age as a queer person in the South.

In “Five Banners: Inside the Duke Basketball Dynasty” sports journalist and Duke University alumnus John Feinstein takes readers inside college basketball’s most polarizing program. 

Chris Cooper hopes his new book, “Anatomy of a Purple State,” can help address “our increasing obsession with national politics at the expense of state politics.”