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Art Friend: Everyone needs an art friend. Art Friend is a new segment with our arts team. Art spaces can feel exclusive and art can be confusing, obtuse, and even boring. But, especially with the right context, everyone can be a critic. So let us be your guide- your Art Friend. Listen or read Art Friend stories here.

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Author Yaa Gyasi says writing can be 'an act of love and justice'

Author Yaa Gyasi says writing can be 'an act of love and justice'

Gyasi's debut novel, “Homegoing,” won a PEN/Hemingway Award. Her follow-up, “Transcendent Kingdom,” draws on Gyasi's life as the daughter of immigrants from Ghana.
by Terry Gross

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Minnesota Orchestra will mount fall season without live audiences

Minnesota Orchestra will mount fall season without live audiences

Even playing to an empty hall, the music will be of the high quality the audience expects, says Minnesota Orchestra music director Osmo Vanska.
by Euan Kerr

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Trump fired a 'faux-Bama,' Michael Cohen says in tell-all memoir

Trump fired a 'faux-Bama,' Michael Cohen says in tell-all memoir

In his book “Disloyal: A Memoir,” President Donald Trump's former personal attorney catalogs a laundry list of accusations, ranging from racism and sexual misconduct to financial misdeeds.
by Anastasia Tsioulcas

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Often, it's not what you say, but 'how you say it'

Psychology professor Katherine Kinzler's new book looks at how people sound when they talk — and how that affects the way they're perceived. She says even children form biases around language use.
by Audie Cornish

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'World Of Wonders' urges us to take a breath and look around

Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil's new book aims to show readers how the natural world can support, educate and inspire us; it's inspired by her peripatetic childhood and the plants and animals she loved.
by Rachel Martin

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Fascism scholar says U.S. is 'losing its democratic status'

Fascism scholar says U.S. is 'losing its democratic status'

Yale professor Jason Stanley wrote the book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” He talked with NPR about defining fascism and how conspiracy theories play a part.
by Christianna Silva and James Doubek

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Getting lost in a good book — literally — in 'Kind of a Big Deal'

Getting lost in a good book — literally — in 'Kind of a Big Deal'

In Shannon Hale's new novel, a former child actor — who's finding her teen years challenging after a failed audition — discovers that she can physically enter books and become part of their stories.
by Alethea Kontis

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A bookseller recommends 'I Am Every Good Thing' for back to school

A bookseller recommends 'I Am Every Good Thing' for back to school

“When there are so many negative stereotypes against black boys and black children, this is just a beautiful poem, almost a love letter, letting them know that they are every good thing,” said bookseller Lorielle J. Holloway.
by Emily Bright

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