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When she was growing up, New Yorker culture writer Jia Tolentino attended a Houston megachurch with her family. "The population was extremely white and wealthy, which my family was not," Tolentino says. "It was the kind of place where you had a daily Bibl

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'New Yorker' Writer Fears We're Fooling Ourselves In The Internet's 'Trick Mirror'

4:11pm August 06, 2019

by Terry Gross

In her new book of essays, culture writer Jia Tolentino explores how social media shapes identity, public discourse and political engagement — particularly for millennials such as herself.

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Toni Morrison was the author of Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Toni Morrison, Whose Soaring Novels Were Rooted In Black Lives, Dies At 88

12:42pm August 06, 2019

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Morrison was the author of Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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A Kiowa Warrior helicopter flies above soldiers with 4th Squadron 2d Cavalry Regiment during a live-fire exercise in the desert on March 6, 2014 near Kandahar, Afghanistan.

'Our Women On The Ground' Unites Stories From Female Journalists In The Arab World

8:05am August 06, 2019

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

There's a deep fascination in the West with how women function in ultra-conservative societies where repression can be violent and even deadly. This anthology pulls back the curtain on those places.

'Gods Of The Upper Air' Traces The Birth Of Cultural Anthropology

5:13pm August 05, 2019

by Barbara J. King

Charles King tells the story of Franz Boas' powerful challenge to racial science — and of how others like Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston contributed to that project.

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Burned Out By Dating Apps? 'The Right Swipe' Will Relight Your Fire

10:00am August 05, 2019

by Amanda M. Diehl

Alisha Rai's new romance is a testament to the difficulty of modern dating, as the CEO of a successful dating app realizes she's been ghosted by the celebrity spokesman of her biggest business rival.

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Tweet Little Lies: Embracing False Selves In The Internet's 'Trick Mirror'

8:13am August 05, 2019

by Rachel Martin

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to New Yorker Staff Writer Jia Tolentino about "Trick Mirror: Reflections On Self-Delusion," her new book of essays about the Internet, marriage, womanhood and more.

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Smart And Snarky, 'The Westing Game' Provides Lasting Laughs

7:00am August 05, 2019

by Alethea Kontis

As part of our summer-long celebration of funny books, we've asked our writers to talk about things that made them laugh, like Ellen Raskin's witty and chaotic inheritance adventure The Westing Game.

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A History Of The Mosquito, 'Our Deadliest Predator'

9:34am August 04, 2019

It's been called one of humans' deadliest predators. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to author Timothy C. Winegard about his new book about the mosquito.

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Self/Made Makes Questioning Reality a Fun Way To Spend An Afternoon

7:00am August 04, 2019

by Etelka Lehoczky

In Matt Groom's trippy comic, a warrior in a fantasy kingdom discovers she's not a real person — instead, she's an NPC, a non-player character in a video game. But unlike most NPCs, she's self-aware.

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How One Anthropologist Reshaped How Social Scientists Think About Race

6:57pm August 03, 2019

In the 1900's, Franz Boas revolutionized anthropology by breaking out of racist conventional wisdom. NPR's Michel Martin talks with Charles King about his book about Boas, "Gods of the Upper Air".

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