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The Best New Books to Read in July 2024
Time via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIt’s love at first sight when Bonnie and Mansour, African immigrants abandoned by their mothers, meet in New York in 1968. The two bond over Mansour’s...
Book Bans Are on the Rise. But Fear of Fiction Is Nothing New.
New York Times· 2 days agoWhile the context changes, fear of fiction seems always to boil down to fear of one’s society and...
Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Down Time
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 18 hours agoIBEX (10D...Long-horned goat) The IBEX is a species of wild goat found in Eurasia, North Africa, and...
Massive Montana Ranch Where Soviet Defector Hid For Years Listed for $21.7 Million
Barron s Online· 7 hours ago“They already had a smaller ranch—it’s still known as the Little Rocking Chair —when we moved to...
A Visual History of the Harlem Renaissance
New York Times· 4 days ago“The Janitor Who Paints,” a 1937 work by Palmer Hayden, who described it in a 1969 interview as a “protest painting.” The piece is featured in “The...
A Poet Who Withholds Blessings, and Makes It Impossible to Look Away
New York Times· 7 days agoFrederick Seidel’s 19th book, “So What,” is filled with politics, disease, luxury and provocation. Daisy Fried is the author of four volumes of poetry, ...
Who Was 'Lisa Ben,' the Woman Behind the U.S.'s First Lesbian Magazine?
Smithsonian Magazine· 7 days agoNow recognized as the first lesbian magazine in the United States, Vice Versa appeared at a time...
How Nathan’s Famous turned competitive eating into a national spectacle
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance Canada· 3 days agoEvery Fourth of July, starting when she was 15, Jacqueline Lewis and her family come together to...
Opinion: Fifty years after his defection, we’re still living in the age of Mikhail Baryshnikov
The Globe and Mail· 3 days agoJohn Fraser is a former dance and theatre critic for The Globe and Mail and its former bureau chief ...
Big changes afoot at 3 great San Francisco classical music institutions
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoA seismic shift in San Francisco's classical music mirrors change afoot in L.A. With leadership turnover, could existential changes alter the city's cultural life?