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Many whites in the post civil rights South had a nuanced reaction to a changing racial landscape. Historian Jason Sokol chronicles their lives in There Goes My Everything.

'Perfume' is a dark and dramatic tale of obsession, murder and the quest for a truly transcendent fragrance. And the main character is a dirty perfumer with a nose of gold and a heart of stone.

In his book, 31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today, Journalist Barry Werth chronicles the days following Richard Nixon's resignation and leading to Gerald Ford's swearing-in as President of the United States. Werth's articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Outside. This interview originally aired on Apr. 13, 2006.

A new book argues that Motown was a step in the evolution of the American popular song, a tradition reaching back to songwriters like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cole Porter.

Bangladesh, one of the most populous Muslim nations in the world, is a relatively tolerant society. But some are concerned about the activities of Islamist religious parties and Islamist extremists.

For readers of author Calvin Trillin's work in The New Yorker, and books like Alice Let's Eat, his late wife Alice is a familiar character. Alice Trillin died in 2001. Calvin Trillin has a new book out, and this time it's all about Alice.

Longtime New Yorker Gay Talese has written the introduction to a new book of photographs of New York that is titled New York: 365 Days. The collection of photos came from The New York Times archive and spans more than a 100 years.

Children's author Beatrix Potter is the subject of a new movie starring Renee Zellweger. But the film covers only a small chapter in the life of an accomplished woman, whose obsessions included the reproductive habits of mushrooms as well as the life of Peter Rabbit.

Bapu Shingara Singh was in his early 20s when British forces, attempting to quell an uprising, opened fire on a large crowd of unarmed Indian protestors. The 1919 Amristar Massacre was a critical event in India's history. Most of the world has forgotten about it, but it has shaped Singh's worldview.

Jonathan Day spent summers with his white father and Hopi stepmother on her reservation in Arizona. He learned about the tribe's traditions and way of life, but he has no illusions that a white man can fully understand what it's like to be an Indian.