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A People's Future of the United States, edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams.

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New Collection Asks: What Might The 'People's Future' Look Like?

10:00am February 09, 2019

by Arkady Martine

This new collection of speculative fiction stories imagines the lives of marginalized people in a variety of difficult future Americas. It's not an easy read, but it has depths of resilience and hope.

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A Fake Orchestra Performance In 'Sounds Like Titanic'

8:21am February 09, 2019

Scott Simon talks with Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman about playing with an orchestra that played to sounds from a CD. Her memoir, Sounds Like Titanic, raises questions about identity and reality.

detail of the cover of The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

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In 'The Night Tiger,' Fantastic Beasts Of Colonial Malaysia

8:21am February 09, 2019

by Scott Simon

Yangsze Choo's second novel features a disembodied finger, Chinese dancehalls of the 1930s and weretigers. For the author, it's a book of parallel worlds: the supernatural and the real.

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'Enchantée' Casts A Delightful Spell

7:00am February 09, 2019

by Caitlyn Paxson

Gita Trelease's new novel follows a young woman trying to support her family in Paris on the eve of the French Revolution, using trickery and a little real magic to disguise herself as an aristocrat.

A couple side by side in bed, each looking at their cell phones.

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'Love Poems For Married People' Will Help Spice Things Up In The— Zzzzz

4:26pm February 08, 2019

by Ari Shapiro

Honey? You awake? The soft glow of a smartphone screen, the caress of sweatpants, a new collection of poems by John Kenney celebrates what happens to romance after years (and years) of marriage.

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The Spirit of Science Fiction, by Roberto Bolano

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In 'Spirit Of Science Fiction,' Seeds Of A Great Career

10:00am February 08, 2019

by Lily Meyer

Roberto Bolaño's early novel, about the adventures of two young Chilean writers fleeing the Pinochet dictatorship, reads like a dress rehearsal for his masterwork The Savage Detectives.

Pope Francis meets Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prior to the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica on Dec. 8, 2015 in Vatican City, Vatican.

'The Pope' Tells The Tale Of A Roman Catholic Church With Coexisting Pontiffs

8:10am February 08, 2019

by Tom Gjelten

In his new book, soon to be a feature film, Andrew McCarten examines Popes Francis and Benedict XVI — and how having two living popes, for the first time in 600 years, has weakened the papacy.

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'Black Leopard, Red Wolf' Is A Beast Of A Book

7:00am February 08, 2019

by Amal El-Mohtar

Our critic likens reading Marlon James' new epic fantasy to being slowly eaten by a bear that occasionally cracks jokes — painful and strange, but upsettingly beautiful for all that.

Reshma Saujani, founder and chief executive officer of Girls Who Code Inc., speaks during the International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) InterConnect 2017 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 21, 2017. IBM

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'Brave, Not Perfect' Speaks To The Scarcity Of Women In Tech

3:50pm February 07, 2019

by Jasmine Garsd

In a new book, Reshma Saujani of Girls Who Code joins a chorus of voices warning of devastating consequences if girls don't partake in tech — and suggesting girls should be encouraged to take risks.

Emily Bernard is a professor of English at the University of Vermont. Her new memoir is Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine.

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You'll Find 12 Fresh And Unforgettable Essays In 'Black Is The Body'

1:28pm February 06, 2019

by Maureen Corrigan

Emily Bernard was recovering from a knife attack — a "bizarre act of violence" — when she decided to write a book of essays rooted, autobiographically, in the blackness of her own body.

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