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Encore: Many Look To Buddhism For Sanctuary From An Over-Connected World

4:53pm July 23, 2018

by Jerome Socolovsky

The amount of time people spend on digital devices is soaring — to the point that several countries treat internet addiction as a public health crisis. But some users are turning to ancient religious practices to be more mindful of their time online.

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We Go To The 'Source' For Summer Reading Recommendations

4:53pm July 23, 2018

Janet Webster Jones, owner of Detroit's Source Booksellers, recommends three books — one real-life romance, and two memoirs about starting over.

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Growing Up Black, Gay And Catholic In Texas, Memoirist Put His Faith In Beyoncé

2:31pm July 23, 2018

by Terry Gross

Michael Arceneaux's new book, I Can't Date Jesus, is a collection of essays about his early years. Beyoncé, he says, taught him a valuable lesson: "Just be yourself and be very good at what you do."

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Remembering Adrian Cronauer, The DJ Who Inspired 'Good Morning Vietnam'

2:29pm July 23, 2018

by Terry Gross

Cronauer, who died last week, hosted an armed forces radio show in Saigon during the Vietnam War and later was the subject of a film starring comic Robin Williams. Originally broadcast in 1988.

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In the POSE season finale, Blanca (Mj Rodriguez) and Lulu (Hailie Sahar) give good face-off.

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Ladies With An Attitude Make For A Striking 'Pose' Finale

5:00am July 23, 2018

by Glen Weldon

The first season wrapped up with a come-from-behind victory that surprised no one — but the appeal of the series isn't about who wins. The greatest thing about Pose is that it exists at all.

A page from Emil Ferris' Eisner Award-winning My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Women and creators of color were big winners at this year's Eisners.

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Comic-Con Day 4: The Monstrous Regiment

11:42pm July 22, 2018

San Diego Comic-Con, and our intrepid correspondents Mallory Yu and Petra Mayer report on an Eisner Awards ceremony (the Oscars of comics) dominated by women and writers of color.

In Blindspotting, the friendship between hotheaded Miles (Rafael Casal, left) and ex-con Collin (Daveed Diggs) is a window into the race and class politics of a gentrifying Oakland.

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In 'Blindspotting,' A Cinematic Love Letter To A Changing Oakland

4:58pm July 22, 2018

by Michel Martin

Actors and spoken-word artists Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal wrote and star in a buddy comedy finely attuned to race and class politics. Of course, they set it in their hometown.

"This text has long been perceived as a masculine text," says Maria Dahvana Headley. "It's been perceived as: Oh that's about men and war. But I think this text is as much about domesticity ... it's a text about home." The Beowulf manuscript above is thou

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Beowulf In The Suburbs? 'The Mere Wife' Is An Epic Retelling

8:12am July 22, 2018

by Korva Coleman

For too long the Old English poem has long been perceived as a "masculine text," says Maria Dahvana Headley. Her new adaptation is told from the perspective of Grendel's mother.

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Muscle And Bone Meet Machinery In 'Hullmetal Girls'

7:00am July 22, 2018

by Caitlyn Paxson

In Emily Skrutskie's new book, two girls make the choice to give up part of their humanity and become bionic super-soldiers in service to the great fleet of spaceships they live among.

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Not My Job: Former FBI Director James Comey Gets Quizzed On Loyalty Rewards

12:34pm July 21, 2018

Comey wrote a book called A Higher Loyalty and he told the Senate intelligence committee that President Trump demanded his loyalty over dinner. But what does he know about loyalty programs?

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