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Kerri Miller Feature

A researcher explains 'Why Diets Make Us Fat'

If you've ever dieted but then slowly gained the weight back, what you're seeing is your brain's resistance to weight loss in action, according to author Sandra Aamodt.
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'How to Make White People Laugh': A crash course

'How to Make White People Laugh': A crash course

Iranian-American comedian and filmmaker Negin Farsad said there's comedy that comes from "not being ashamed to talk about identity in a world where just the mere mention of the word 'Muslim' is considered political and heated."
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In search of the truth of a kidnapped father

In search of the truth of a kidnapped father

After the fall of Qaddafi, Hisham Matar returned to his Libyan homeland after more than two decades to see if he could find his father.
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Where are the female spies in fiction?

Where are the female spies in fiction?

Roles for female characters in the spy genre tend to fall into two categories: the imperiled love interest or the femme fatale.
by Tracy Mumford

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The key to sustainable travel

The key to sustainable travel

"We don't want travel that conquers a destination, we want to enhance that destination," said Costas Christ, an editor at large for National Geographic Magazine.
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Talking Volumes 2016 season guide

Talking Volumes 2016 season guide

The 16th season of Talking Volumes includes interviews with Elizabeth Alexander, Carl Hiaasen, Gloria Steinem, Ann Patchett and Colson Whitehead.
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Creator of 'Fargo' TV show crafts one of the year's best suspense novels

Creator of 'Fargo' TV show crafts one of the year's best suspense novels

Noah Hawley's new novel centers on a private jet carrying a group of wealthy and powerful people that crashes into the Atlantic. But the crash is only the beginning.
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Traveling the Oregon Trail by covered wagon, 170 years later

Traveling the Oregon Trail by covered wagon, 170 years later

Author Rinker Buck and his brother packed up a covered wagon, wrangled a team of mules, and retraced the 2,000-mile journey across the American west.
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Grief is a 'hamster wheel': How a memoir about death can still be funny

Grief is a 'hamster wheel': How a memoir about death can still be funny

In the span of seven weeks, Nora McInerny Purmort miscarried, and then watched both her father and her husband die of cancer. Her memoir tackles grief with unflinching humor and honesty.
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A metaphysical thriller with a dash of dangerous politics

A metaphysical thriller with a dash of dangerous politics

Lydia Millet's new novel follows a woman fleeing her husband, who has his eye on a state legislative seat. With her daughter in tow, she crosses the continent from Alaska to Maine and holes up in a remote hotel.
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