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3 sobering lessons learned since 9/11

3 sobering lessons learned since 9/11

These books provide a detailed accounting of events that have defined the U.S. role in the world in the first part of the 21st century. None makes for cheery reading, but all offer sobering lessons.
by Greg Myre

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In 'Civilizations,' Inca emperor Atahualpa conquers 16th-century Spain

In 'Civilizations,' Inca emperor Atahualpa conquers 16th-century Spain

Laurent Binet seems to genuinely want to know to what extent conquest and the cruelty it inevitably produces are reducible, redeemable, or escapable. He also plainly wants to play around.
by Lily Meyer

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Writer Maggie Nelson asks what it means to feel free

Writer Maggie Nelson asks what it means to feel free

In “On Freedom's” allusive, blunt, funny essays, the author of “The Argonauts” and “The Art of Cruelty” tries to imagine freedom as it exists in the contemporary contexts of art, sex, drugs, and climate.
by Annalisa Quinn

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Alabama's first Black poet laureate takes a personal approach to 'Reparations'

Alabama's first Black poet laureate takes a personal approach to 'Reparations'

Ashley M. Jones is Alabama's youngest and first Black poet laureate. Her new book “Reparations Now!” discusses America's history of Black oppression, and asks for more than monetary repairs.
by Jeevika Verma

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'Poet Warrior' Joy Harjo wants Native peoples to be seen as human

'Poet Warrior' Joy Harjo wants Native peoples to be seen as human

The nation's first Native American poet laureate has a new memoir in which she tells her own story — as well as the story of her sixth-generation grandfather, who was forced from his ancestral land.
by Terry Gross

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Actor Michael K. Williams, who played Omar on 'The Wire,' dead at 54

Actor Michael K. Williams, who played Omar on 'The Wire,' dead at 54

Actor Michael K. Williams, who played the beloved character Omar Little on “The Wire,” has died. New York City police say Williams was found dead Monday afternoon at his apartment in Brooklyn.
by The Associated Press

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If monsters were real, this book knows what you'd really do — nothing

If monsters were real, this book knows what you'd really do — nothing

What appears to be a simple, awful police killing turns out to be much worse in Cadwell Turnbull's new “No Gods, No Monsters,” set in a world where monsters and magic are real, and none of it is pretty.
by Jason Sheehan

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