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A Stitch In Time Saves A Life In 'A Single Thread'

10:00am September 21, 2019

by Denny S. Bryce

Tracy Chevalier's new novel follows a woman left alone after her fiance and brother died in World War I. She decides to make her mark on the world by joining a guild of embroiderers at a cathedral.

A Cosmology of Monsters, by Shaun Hamill

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'A Cosmology Of Monsters' Blends Freaky Frights And Family Feels

7:00am September 21, 2019

by Jason Heller

Shaun Hamill's new novel uses the lens of horror to examine the ways we interact and fail to interact with each other, and the way a family can be held together by the very things that tear it apart.

They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, by James Verini

'They Will Have To Die Now' Is A Bare-Knuckles Account Of The Fight Against ISIS

6:07pm September 20, 2019

by Tom Bowman

James Verini's book will stand up with some of the best war reporting, as he takes an unblinking look at the dirtiest kind of battle — urban combat — and the human wreckage it leaves in its wake.

The playwright Jeremy O. Harris, 30, began writing Slave Play at Yale School of Drama. It is set to open in October on Broadway.

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With 'Slave Play,' A Young Playwright Provokes His Way To Broadway

4:44pm September 20, 2019

Jeremy O. Harris, 30, started writing a sexually explicit, transgressive and comic work as a graduate student at Yale. It proved a surprising smash hit, and will soon open on a much bigger stage.

Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie poses at a community space where women cook and sell meat. She started drag as an escape from oppression she felt at Stellenbosch University for being "black, Xhosa, poor, queer and effeminate." "It is through pageantry and perfo

PHOTOS: Drag Queens In South Africa Embrace Queerness And Tradition

4:41pm September 20, 2019

Even though they face discrimination, they proudly embrace their heritage in the way they dress.

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Creator Of Theatre On Film And Tape Archive Dies At 98

4:15pm September 20, 2019

by Jeff Lunden

Betty Corwin, creator of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, has died at 98. Her project preserves theatrical performances for theater professionals, scholars and New York library card holders.

Fifty books made the cut for the 2019 National Book Award longlists. Winners will be announced in November.

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Here Are The Nominees For The 2019 National Book Awards

1:58pm September 20, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

Colson Whitehead and Marlon James headline the longlists of names in contention for the literary prize. Altogether, 50 books across five categories stand a chance at winning in November.

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'Downton Abbey' Creator Julian Fellowes And Star Maggie Smith

1:49pm September 20, 2019

by Dave Davies

In honor of the Downton Abbey movie, which opens in theaters Sept. 20, we listen back to interviews with series creator Julian Fellowes and star Maggie Smith, who plays the Dowager Countess.

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'Ad Astra' Approaches The Sublime With Its Portrait Of Masculinity In Crisis

1:49pm September 20, 2019

by Justin Chang

Brad Pitt is an astronaut who saves the world by traveling millions of miles to reunite with his long-absent dad. It's an unabashedly ridiculous premise, but somehow Ad Astra manages to pull it off.

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Cows graze in a field in the Podunk section of East Brookfield, Mass.

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Some 'Podunk' Town In The Middle Of Nowhere

11:09am September 20, 2019

by Leah Donnella

"Podunk" is supposed to be bleak and isolated. But there are a few things that people who use the term might not know. For one, it really exists. For another, its history predates the United States.