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The British author Fiona Mozley’s new novel, “Hot Stew,” features sex workers fighting an eviction order from a real-estate heiress and a host of other…

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Some 80 years after Wright finished it, “The Man Who Lived Underground” is still an urgent chronicle of the Black experience in America.Some 80 years…

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“Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?,” by the British critic and novelist who died in 2016, features essays originally published in The…

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Using nostalgia as their guide, illustrators in Assam recreate Bihu customs to strike a happy chordUsing nostalgia as their guide, illustrators in Assam recreate Bihu…

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How the comedian (and director, writer, ceramist and weed entrepreneur) has made a career out of mining the pitfalls and possibilities of adolescence.How the comedian…

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To help explain to children the urgency of a warmer planet, a visual journalist created artwork with a playful approach.To help explain to children the…

View More Artist’s Illustrations Help Explain Climate Change to Kids

As much as cultures have changed over the years, we still share traits with the flawed, searching characters between these covers.As much as cultures have…

View More Spanning Centuries and Continents, Novels of Our Common Humanity

In Gregory Curtis’s memoir, he looks back on his marriage and the city that saved him after his wife died of cancer.In Gregory Curtis’s memoir,…

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