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What are 'the kids' thinking these days? Honor Levy aims to tell in 'My First Book'

Social media discourse and the inevitable backlash aside, the 26-year-old writer's first book is an amusing, if uneven, take on growing up white, privileged, and Gen Z.

May 14, 2024
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  • Leland Cheuk

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Claire Messud's sweeping novel borrows from her own 'Strange Eventful History'

Messud draws from her grandfather's handwritten memoir as she tells a cosmopolitan, multigenerational story about a family forced to move from Algeria to Europe to South and North America.

May 13, 2024
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By:
  • Maureen Corrigan
"When I first started being in Bikini Kill, I thought of myself as a feminist performance artist who was in a punk band," Kathleen Hanna says.

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Kathleen Hanna on life as a 'Rebel Girl,' and the joy of expressing anger in public

The Bikini Kill frontwoman pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement in the 1990s. "I thought of myself as a feminist performance artist who was in a punk band," Hanna says.

May 13, 2024
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  • Ann Marie Baldonado

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My Octopus Teacher's Craig Foster dives into the ocean again in 'Amphibious Soul'

Nature's healing power is an immensely personal focus for Foster. He made his film after being burned out from long, grinding hours at work. After the release of the film, he suffered from insomnia.

May 13, 2024
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  • Barbara J. King

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  • Book Reviews

A 19th-century bookbinder struggles with race and identity in 'The Library Thief'

In her debut novel taking place in the Victorian era, Kuchenga Shenjé explores the expectations that arise when society demands that every group be neatly categorized.

May 10, 2024
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  • Keishel Williams
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In 'Chicano Frankenstein,' the undead are the new underpaid labor force

Daniel Olivas's novel puts a new spin on the age-old Frankenstein story. In this retelling, 12 million "reanimated" people provide a cheap workforce for the United States...and face a very familiar type of bigotry.

May 10, 2024
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  • B.A. Parker,
  • Christina Cala,
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Rod with his father Sam Serling c. 1943.

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A WWII story by The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling is published for the first time

Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling was a paratrooper during WWII. After the war, he wrote a short story inspired by the experience. It's now being published for the first time in The Strand.

May 09, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Griner competes for Team USA on Aug. 8, 2021, during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Griner won gold medals in both Tokyo and in Rio de Janeiro.

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Brittney Griner reflects on 'Coming Home' after nearly 300 days in a Russian prison

The WNBA star, who is six feet, nine inches, says she felt like a zoo animal in prison. "The guards would literally come open up the little peep hole, look in, and then I would hear them laughing."

May 08, 2024
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Book Reviews

Magic, secrets, and urban legend: 3 new YA fantasy novels to read this spring

A heist with a social conscience, a father using magic for questionable work, an urban legend turned sleepover dare: These new releases explore protagonists embracing the magic within themselves.

May 08, 2024
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  • Caitlyn Paxson
Writers Jonathan Eig (top left), Brandon Som (top right) and Ilyon Woo (lower right) and composer Tyshawn Sorey (lower left) received 2024 Pulitzer Prizes for their work. All four have connections to Georgia.

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Here are this year's Pulitzer Prize winners with Georgia ties

This year’s Pulitzer Prizes have been announced and the winners in the Biography category are both books with Georgia ties. And in the music category, the winning composer has links to Atlanta.

May 07, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship

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  • Books

'Long Island' renders bare the universality of longing

In a heartrending follow-up to his beloved 2009 novel, Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín handles uncertainties and moral conundrums with exquisite delicacy, zigzagging through time to a devastating climax.

May 07, 2024
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  • Heller McAlpin
"The primary way plants communicate with each other is through a language, so to speak, of chemical gasses," journalist Zoë Schlanger says.

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Plants can communicate and respond to touch. Does that mean they're intelligent?

Climate journalist Zoë Schlanger says research suggests that plants are indeed "intelligent" in complex ways that challenge our understanding of agency and consciousness. Her book is The Light Eaters.

May 07, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Books

Neoliberal economics: The road to freedom or authoritarianism?

Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz's new book argues the road to tyranny is paved not by too much, but by too little government.

May 07, 2024
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Brittney Griner on the court in September 2023.

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  • National

'I did not feel like a human': Brittney Griner tells NPR about detention in Russia

Griner's new memoir recounts being humiliated by guards, of the pain from squeezing her 6-foot-9 frame into cramped beds and cage, and cutting her locs because it was so cold that her hair froze.

May 06, 2024
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By:
  • Juana Summers,
  • Ashley Brown,
  • and 1 more
Thomas Taylor's original cover illustration for <em>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone</em> (1997) is expected to break auction records at Sotheby's on June 26.

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  • Art & Design

The original 'Harry Potter' book cover art is expected to break records at auction

Sotheby's June 26 auction of Thomas Taylor's watercolor illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is estimated to sell for $400,000-$600,000.

May 05, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman
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