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WNYC picks up Preet Bharara's podcast; Mary Beard on social media aggression
... lawsuit. After Boyden provided a copy of an unofficial identification card to prove his Métis heritage in court, Eric Andrew-Gee writes, “This is Boyden as his sharpest critics see him: a cultural...
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Claudia Rankine on the legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks; Why MTV abandoned longform
... Mic examines MSNBC’s thwarted evolution into a centrist news channel. Chairman Andrew Lack had been...
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Fire Island of the Mind
... Fire Island, written by the natives themselves, including Edmund White’s proto-Milo debut novel, Forgetting Elena (1973); Larry Kramer’s riotous Faggots (1978); and, most importantly, Andrew...
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Brooklyn Book Festival roster announced; What will social media do to the novel?
... or participate in roundtable discussions are: Colson Whitehead, Elif Batuman, Chris Hayes, Jacqueline Woodson, Lois Lowry, Erna Brodber, Santiago Gamboa, Young-ha Kim, and Hisham Matar. According...
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Fantasy Demographics
... Americans, Latinos, Asians, the young, the middle-aged, and (mostly) the working class. It was more or less what Judis had foreseen. But then something went wrong. While a Democrat held the White House...
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Coming in from the Cold
... elliptical form: "I was twenty-five when, in 1956, I was formally inducted into MI5 as a junior officer"; "as a young soldier in Austria, I had interrogated scores of refugees from Eastern Europe on the...
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Bob Dylan acknowledges Nobel Prize; John Berger on life as a storyteller
...newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-bronx-loses-its-only-bookstore>. Andrew Boryga, who grew up in Bedford Park, reminisces about his family’s weekly outings to the store when he was young: “I was already...
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American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag
... neglect and New England climate extremes. “Hocking collected them for one reason,” Kaag writes: “He was in search of the origins of American philosophy.” The young philosophy professor spends...
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Do We Really Need to Talk About Dylan?
... In 2012 Sue Klebold and her husband Tom popped up in Andrew Solomon’s deliriously received Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, talking about their love for their...
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Kevin Young named director of Schomburg Center
... Poet and writer Kevin Young will be taking over for historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad as the director
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One more officer acquitted in Freddie Gray trial; Turkish media targeted during coup
...adweek.com/fishbowlny/nice-attacks-liberation-austin-statesman/380725> The number of young people killed in the attack prompted Le Parisen’s headline “They Were Children
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It's fine to procrastinate; Jonah Lehrer demystifies love
...&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-0&module=inside-nyt-region®ion=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region> Andrew Ross Sorkin, an insight gleaned from Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
