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Shhhhh, listen closely: Your plants might be talking

Shhhhh, listen closely: Your plants might be talking

With extremely sensitive microphones, a new exhibit at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden shows it's possible to hear the sounds that plants make when they're growing.
by Dana Cronin

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'The Downstairs Girl' faces difficult history with joy and style

'The Downstairs Girl' faces difficult history with joy and style

In Stacey Lee's new novel, an opinionated and talented Chinese American girl makes her way in Reconstruction-era Atlanta while preserving her secret work as an advice columnist in the local paper.
by Caitlyn Paxson

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440 years old and filled with footprints, these aren't your everyday maps

440 years old and filled with footprints, these aren't your everyday maps

In 1577, King Philip II of Spain wanted to know whom he was ruling and where in his vast kingdom they were. So his viceroy asked the indigenous groups in what is now Mexico to draw some maps for him.
by Wade Goodwyn

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus: 'I don't think I've made it ... and I like that'

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: 'I don't think I've made it ... and I like that'

Nominated for a ninth Emmy Award in acting, the star of Veep and Seinfeld talks about getting her first laugh, her rocky start at Saturday Night Live and the #MeToo movement.
by Audie Cornish

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In 'Automatic Eve,' steampunk meets 'Blade Runner' — in Japan

In 'Automatic Eve,' steampunk meets 'Blade Runner' — in Japan

Rokuro Inui's mosaic novel is set in a lush alternate Japan, full of cricket fighting tournaments, beautiful automata and intricate webs of plot and counter-plot around the mysterious Eve.
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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A girl goes missing, but it's not a mystery

A girl goes missing, but it's not a mystery

“It is the most surprising book I have read all year,” says bookseller Emilie Sommer.
by Tracy Mumford

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Characters shine in powerful, dreamy 'The World Doesn't Require You'

Characters shine in powerful, dreamy 'The World Doesn't Require You'

Rion Amilcar Scott's second story collection returns readers to his fictional town of Cross River, Md., site of America's only successful slave uprising, and God is one of the best-known residents.
by Michael Schaub

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Minnesota group to be part of 400th anniversary of slavery commemoration

The Twin Cities-based group The Sounds of Blackness will be in Hampton, Va. this weekend to participate in a commemoration of 400th anniversary of the first enslaved people arriving from Africa in what would become the United States. There are a series of events planned at Fort Monroe which is near where the first ship arrived. The Sounds of Blackness and Common will be featured in a concert that will take place tomorrow night. MPR News’ Tim Nelson caught up with the group as it rehearsed this week and talked to music director Gary Hines.

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'Going Dutch' is a charming, well-observed debut

'Going Dutch' is a charming, well-observed debut

James Gregor's novel about a gay man who falls into an intense relationship with a woman mixes old-fashioned style and contemporary setting. His observations on human nature are precisely rendered.
by Ilana Masad

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