Arts & Life

David North built the Doorway to Imagination in his backyard.

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2 Uncles And A 'Doorway To Imagination' Spread Love On Social Media

6:48pm June 05, 2020

The backyard wood structure looks like something you'd find in a secret garden or a little hut in the forest. The artist and his husband have gained lots of fans on social media.

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Historian Eric Foner On The 'Unresolved Legacy Of Reconstruction'

1:42pm June 05, 2020

by Terry Gross

After the Civil War, the federal government promised former slaves equality and citizenship. Historian Eric Foner says the failed promises reverberate today. Originally broadcast Jan. 9, 2006.

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Remembering Award-Winning Author Robb Forman Dew

1:42pm June 05, 2020

by Terry Gross

Dew, who died May 22, wrote intimately about family relationships in both fiction and nonfiction. She spoke to Terry Gross in 1994 about The Family Heart, her memoir about learning her son was gay.

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Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) and her long-term houseguest Rose (Odessa Young) form an unusual bond in Shirley. The film mixes fact and fiction to explore the life of the American writer best known for her short story "The Lottery."

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Elisabeth Moss Shines As Writer Shirley Jackson In This Smart, Surprising Film

12:54pm June 05, 2020

by Justin Chang

Shirley mixes fact and fiction as it explores the life of the writer best known for the short story "The Lottery." This unusual film isn't so much a biopic as it is a biographical-literary fantasia.

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This Is One Way to Dance: Essays, by Sejal Shah

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'This Is One Way To Dance' Explores A Life Straddling Congruent Realities

8:07am June 04, 2020

by Martha Anne Toll

Essayist Sejal Shah brings important, refreshing, and depressing observations about what it means to have dark skin and an "exotic" name, when the only country you've ever lived in is America.

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After Retooling Because Of COVID-19, 'Patriot Act' Returns To Netflix

6:24am June 04, 2020

by Sam Sanders

Comedian Hasan Minhaj recently returned to Netflix with his award-winning show, Patriot Act, after it was initially postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Several publishers have filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive alleging copyright infringement.

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Publishers Sue Internet Archive For 'Mass Copyright Infringement'

3:24pm June 03, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The lawsuit filed this week in federal court alleges that the organization, which lends books online for free, amounts to a "piracy site" that has been eluding copyright law for years.

Faith leaders stand before a Baltimore mural depicting Freddie Gray, who died April 19, 2015 of injuries sustained while in police custody.

From Freddie Gray To George Floyd: Wes Moore Says It's Time To 'Change The Systems'

2:36pm June 03, 2020

by Terry Gross

In Five Days, Moore chronicles the uprising that occurred in Baltimore following Gray's death. "We're basically reliving history right now," he says of Floyd's death at the hands of police.

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'The Vanishing Half' Counts The Terrible Costs Of Bigotry And Secrecy

7:00am June 03, 2020

by Heller McAlpin

Brit Bennett's triumphant new novel follows two light-skinned black sisters whose lives take very different paths; you'll keep turning pages not to find out what happens, but who these women are.

'The Six Feet Away Museum' In Florida Becomes Place For Discussions On Race, Justice

5:05am June 03, 2020

Shawana Brooks, a curator, and her artist husband, Roosevelt Watson III created an outdoor gallery at their home when the pandemic closed museums. Now, it's also a place for conversations about race.

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