In his novel “A View of the Empire at Sunset,” about the Dominican-born, British writer Jean Rhys, Caryl Phillips wrote, “there was something terribly illicit about her own waiflike presence in the world.” Though she was the author of revered works like “Wide Sargasso Sea,” Rhys rarely received the literary credit her work deserved during her life or after her death in 1979, which is why she is the subject of the latest installment in our Underread Book Series. 
This weeks Leonard Lopate At Large features a discussion about the ecological interactions between plants and wildlife and the importance of sustaining native plants....
Today on Leonard Lopate At Large, author Ann Beattie joins Leonard for the second installment in Leonard’s Underread Book Club, the short stories of...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Blake J. Harris discusses the incredible story that inspired him to write “The History of the Future.” Topics: ...