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'The Volunteer' Is A War Story Unlike Any Other

7:00am March 11, 2019

by Jason Sheehan

Salvatore Scibona's new novel is a generational saga, an epic of Vietnam and other places rendered in language that makes even simple things sound mythic. But first, a boy is abandoned at an airport.

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Menstruate? Celebrate! New Novel Urges Girls To Embrace 'The Moon Within'

9:10am March 10, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Author Aida Salazar didn't want her daughter to feel ashamed about getting her period. "I wanted to reframe the conversation," Salazar says. "I wanted to tell a different story."

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All Hipsters Don't Look The Same, OK?

8:11am March 10, 2019

Gideon Lichfield of the MIT Technology Review talks about how a man blasted the publication for using a photo of him in a story about how all hipsters look the same, but it was someone else.

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'The Altruists' Asks: How Do You Live A Good Life?

7:00am March 10, 2019

by Heller McAlpin

Andrew Ridker's sharp, compassionate first novel follows a family of flawed but sympathetic bumblers whose efforts to do good more often end up causing harm — to themselves and others.

Scholars believe this drawing was likely made by Leonardo da Vinci. It was originally credited to one of his students.

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Mystery Sculpture Thought To Be The Work Of Leonardo da Vinci Is Unveiled In Italy

3:15pm March 09, 2019

by Shannon Van Sant

Since da Vinci's death, no three-dimensional work of art by him has ever been identified. That is, until now, say curators in Italy.

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Not My Job: We Quiz 'Black Panther' Designer Ruth E. Carter On Garfield

11:42am March 09, 2019

Carter recently won the Oscar for Best Costume Design for her work on the movie Black Panther, so we've invited her to answer three questions about a grumpy, orange panther (of sorts).

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A volunteer holds up a "Hush Y'all" sign at an LPGA golf tournament in 2012 in Mobile, Ala.

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Y'all Heard? An Argument For The Great Southern Pronoun

8:21am March 09, 2019

by Patrick Jarenwattananon

In the book Speaking of Alabama, an essay by linguistics professor Catherine Davies calls "y'all" a speech "improvement" — at least when referring to the plural second person.

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Beats By Arthur Dubois

8:21am March 09, 2019

Arthur Dubois went viral this week after videos of his trap music beats started circulating. The 72-year-old self-taught music producer talks with NPR's Scott Simon about his newfound fame.

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'Gingerbread' Is A Delightfully Spicy Family Fable

7:00am March 09, 2019

by Michael Schaub

Helen Oyeyemi played with fairy tale ideas in the past; her new novel takes off from "Hansel and Gretel" for the story of a mother, a daughter and a mysteriously powerful family gingerbread recipe.

An American Summer: Love And Death In Chicago, by Alex Kotlowitz

'An American Summer' Presents The Human Side Of Gun Violence In Chicago

1:31pm March 08, 2019

by Gabino Iglesias

Alex Kotlowitz's new book amplifies the words of those who have witnessed tragedy and makes their experiences available to readers — a chronicle that is painful but also necessary.