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Helen Thayer once walked 4,000 miles across the Sahara from Morocco to the Nile River, kayaked 2,200 miles of the Amazon River, and became the first woman to travel alone to any of the world's poles.

Today our guest is writer Azar Nafisi. We’ll talk about her new book "Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times."

Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. Their father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet’s first white supremacist website.

We’re compiling another UPR community booklist and we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or device right now?

Part elegy, part ode, part investigative science journalism, Jonathan Thompson's book "River of Lost Souls" tells the story of the 2015 disaster that turned the Animas River in southwestern Colorado orange with sludge and toxic metals.

In the midst of a contentious presidential election year, many of us are feeling the need for increased peace in the world, the nation, our neighborhoods, families, and in our hearts.

On this episode we revisit our conversation with novelist, feminist, and philanthropist Isabel Allende about her latest book.

Anthony Doerr’s' All the Light We Cannot See' was published in May 2014 and in September of that year Anthony Doerr visited Utah for several events as a part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. We revisit our conversation from then.

Anthony Doerr’s' All the Light We Cannot See' was published in May 2014 and in September of that year Anthony Doerr visited Utah for several events as a part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. We revisit our conversation from then.

“I began my writing career by exploring the tracks humans have left in nature. Now I’m mostly interested in the tracks nature leaves in us.” That’s author Gary Ferguson. He says that nature provides beauty, mystery and community, traits that each of us very much needs. He is the author of 25 books.