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A Wannabe Influencer Gets Sent To Digital Detox In 'Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous'

Sunny — the protagonist of Suzanne Park's new young adult novel — is mortified when a PG-13 video accidentally goes viral, and even worse, her parents send her to a rural farm to get her off-line.

June 05, 2021
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  • Alethea Kontis

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  • Book Reviews

An Argentinean Novel Spins Countless Stories From A Bicycle Wheel

César Aira's The Divorce, a 2008 novel now out in English, centers around one charged moment at a Buenos Aires cafe, when water falling from an awning suddenly drenches a passing bicyclist.

June 05, 2021
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  • Kamil Ahsan
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  • Arts & Life

Kennedy Center Honors Will Air On CBS, With Pandemic Changes

The Kennedy Center Honors broadcast airs on CBS on June 6th. Recipients include Debbie Allen and Dick Van Dyke. It was a very different event this year.

June 04, 2021
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  • Elizabeth Blair
David Rubenstein, Chita Rivera, Garth Brooks, Debbie Allen, Trisha Yearwood, Dick Van Dyke, Joan Baez, Gloria Estefan, Midori, and Kennedy Center president Deborah F. Rutter pose for a group photo at the 43nd annual Kennedy Center Honors.

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  • Arts & Life

This Year's Kennedy Center Honorees Have A 'Jolly Romp' At The White House

President Biden has resumed the tradition of inviting Kennedy Center honorees to the White House. In a year of "profound loss and pain," Biden says, "the artist's vision is as important as ever."

June 04, 2021
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Pianist, composer and coder Dan Tepfer confronted pandemic isolation with ingenious technological solutions.

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  • Arts & Life

Hear Bach's Music Like You've Never Heard It Before: Upside Down

For most artists, 2020 was a year of forced isolation and few opportunities. But Dan Tepfer, a jazz pianist and composer, had a busy year, partly thanks to his technological acumen.

June 04, 2021
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  • Tom Vitale
Marcus (Noah Jupe), Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and Evelyn (Emily Blunt) brave the unknown in <em>A Quiet Place Part II.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

Listen Carefully: The Tense 'Quiet Place' Sequel Speaks To Our Present Time

John Krasinski's follow-up to his 2018 thriller about aliens who hunt by sound showcases humanity at its best and worst — and feels particularly relevant as we slowly emerge from the pandemic.

June 04, 2021
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  • Justin Chang
<em>Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby,</em> by Dan Abrams and David Fisher

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  • Book Reviews

Jack Ruby's Trial Moves From Side Stage To Center In 'Kennedy's Avenger'

Dan Abrams and David Fisher tell a gripping tale that takes readers into the heart of Ruby's trial, picking up the moment he killed Oswald and then methodically unpacking what followed.

June 04, 2021
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  • Gabino Iglesias
Bo Burnham, seen here accepting a DGA First-Time Feature Film Award for <em>Eighth Grade </em>in 2019, has a new special that places him in a much quieter space.

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  • TV Reviews

Bo Burnham's 'Inside' Is A Musical Fantasy About Terrible Realities

Burnham has been away from stand-up for a long time, and this is not a stand-up special. It's theater, filmed at home, touching on some of the harshest realities of the isolated mind.

June 04, 2021
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  • Linda Holmes

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  • Book Reviews

An Office Rivalry Turns Strange — And Maybe Dangerous — In 'The Other Black Girl'

Zakiya Dalila Harris drew on her own experiences in publishing for her new thriller, about a young Black woman who hopes for a friend and ally when her lily-white office hires another Black woman.

June 04, 2021
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  • Bethanne Patrick
The Riverside Hotel hosted musicians like Muddy Waters, Sam Cooke, Howlin' Wolf, and Duke Ellington.

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  • Arts & Life

Here's The Latest List Of The Nation's Most Endangered Historic Places

Every year, the trust puts out a list of the most endangered historic sites in America — this year, it includes civil rights campsites, a hotel that was home to the blues and a Navajo trading post.

June 03, 2021
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  • Neda Ulaby
The State Theatre in Portland, Maine, is one of the many venues that have yet to receive money from the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program.

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  • Arts & Life

As Grants For Shuttered Venues Trickle Out, Many Owners Are Still Waiting

The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant was meant to help small independent venues, theaters and other entertainment spaces hit hard by the pandemic. But it's taken six months to get up and running.

June 03, 2021
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  • Andrew Limbong

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  • Book Reviews

Yes, There Are Crimes — And Much More — In 'The Thousand Crimes Of Ming Tsu'

Tom Lin's new novel promises — and delivers — lots of crimes in a cinematic Western starring a Chinese American gunslinger on a mission of revenge against the men who sent him to work the railroads.

June 03, 2021
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  • Fran Wilde
<em>Biomutant</em> gives players a beautiful open world to explore.

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'Biomutant' Is A Beautiful Game, But It Might Be Best For Beginners

In this post-apocalyptic vision, you play as a furry little mutant battling and questing through a gorgeous open world. But boring combat and too much hand-holding keep the game from greatness.

June 03, 2021
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  • Keller Gordon
Kraftwerk, photographed in 1977. From left: Florian Schneider, Karl Bartos, Ralf Hütter and Wolfgang Flür.

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  • Music Interviews

Kraftwerk And Our Computer World

In a new book, writer Uwe Schütte takes up a close examination of the unique context that gave rise to one of the century's most influential art projects.

June 02, 2021
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By:
  • Audie Cornish and
  • Casey Morell
Civil rights activists are blocked by National Guard members brandishing bayonets while trying to stage a protest on Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968.

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  • Race

Historian Uncovers The Racist Roots Of The 2nd Amendment

Carol Anderson says the Second Amendment was designed to ensure slave owners could quickly crush any rebellion or resistance from those they'd enslaved. Her new book is The Second.

June 02, 2021
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  • Dave Davies
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