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'This is an opportunity': Fareed Zakaria on 'Lessons For A Post-Pandemic World'

'This is an opportunity': Fareed Zakaria on 'Lessons For A Post-Pandemic World'

The CNN host and author says COVID-19 has widened the inequality gap. "The most important piece of what the federal government can do is to stabilize these people's lives with direct aid," he says.
by Dave Davies

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'Shelter In Place' is an ill-mannered comedy of manners

'Shelter In Place' is an ill-mannered comedy of manners

David Leavitt's new novel “Shelter in Place” aims for sparkling social comedy — but it's let down by a cast of privileged, shallow characters you wouldn't want to spend your lockdown with.
by Heller McAlpin

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Meet the Idaho potato warehouse worker whose TikTok video sent Fleetwood Mac sales soaring

Meet the Idaho potato warehouse worker whose TikTok video sent Fleetwood Mac sales soaring

Nathan Apodaca recorded a laid-back video while riding a longboard downhill and drinking Cran-Raspberry juice. The Internet went wild — and catapulted a Fleetwood Mac song back onto the charts.
by Bobby Allyn

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Ojibwe artist to raise community-created sculpture outside Minnesota Capitol

Ojibwe artist to raise community-created sculpture outside Minnesota Capitol

Ojibwe artist Sharon Day will unveil a new artwork outside the Minnesota Capitol on Sunday. She was inspired to create the piece in part to give elders and people with health conditions a way to make their voices heard amid the pandemic.
by Faye Williams

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'The Code For Love And Heartbreak' isn't 'Emma' — but it is charming

'The Code For Love And Heartbreak' isn't 'Emma' — but it is charming

Jillian Cantor's new YA novel lifts some of the elements of Jane Austen's classic — like character names — wholesale. But you'll enjoy it more if you don't expect the plot to follow exactly.
by Alethea Kontis

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A bookseller recommends 'The City in the Middle of the Night'

A bookseller recommends 'The City in the Middle of the Night'

In the “The City in the Middle of the Night” by Charlie Jane Anders, there is a planet that is half in constant darkness and half in unending sunlight. Humans can only survive in the margin where the two halves meet. From two opposite cities — one autocratic, one lawless — come two girls whose lives intertwine.
by Emily Bright

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Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o says prison formed him as a writer

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o says prison formed him as a writer

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a perennial favorite for the Literature Nobel. He hasn't won yet — but he does have a new book out, a novel in verse that tells the origin story of Kenya's Gĩkũyũ people.
by Scott Simon

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For poet Maggie Smith, an ending was the beginning of her new book

For poet Maggie Smith, an ending was the beginning of her new book

Smith says she started writing “Keep Moving” as her marriage was ending. It began as a series of affirmations she wrote for herself on Twitter; she found that the posts were helping other people too.
by Mary Louise Kelly

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Talking Volumes: A conversation with Claudia Rankine

Talking Volumes: A conversation with Claudia Rankine

Kerri Miller hosts a conversation with poet, playwright, bestselling author, MacArthur Fellow, and Yale professor Claudia Rankine about her new collection “Just Us: An American Conversation.”
by Kerri Miller

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Rapper Tory Lanez charged with shooting Megan Thee Stallion

Rapper Tory Lanez charged with shooting Megan Thee Stallion

Los Angeles prosecutors on Thursday charged rapper Tory Lanez with shooting artist Megan Thee Stallion during an argument earlier this year.

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