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    Attention nerds and Chalamet stans: the Dune trailer is here, and it’s pretty epic.

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    Here are the finalists for the 2020 Kirkus Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 9, 2020
    On Race

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    By Catherine Barnett  September 9, 2020
    Classics

    Daniel Mendelsohn Makes a Powerful Case for the
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    By John Freeman  September 9, 2020
    On Race

    Five Years Later: On the Enduring Legacy of All American Boys

    By Katy Hershberger  September 9, 2020
    On Death

    What if Medicine is Not About Preserving Life, But About Humanity?

    By Rachel Clarke  September 9, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

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    Empire

    On Albery Allson Whitman, Radical Black Poet of the Reconstruction

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    Mychal Denzel Smith on Believing In a Future That Doesn’t Sacrifice Lives to Pandemics

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    Keen On

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    Folklore

    The Magic of Everyday Life is Preserved in Ganda Folklore

    By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi  September 9, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Paper Money Shaped American Capitalism

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    The Hub

    Here’s the longlist for this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 8, 2020
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    Viet Thanh Nguyen has just become the first Asian-American member of the Pulitzer Board.

    By Corinne Segal  September 8, 2020
    The Hub

    Would a TV show in which Shakespeare’s characters all live in the same hotel be amazing or terrible?

    By Emily Temple  September 8, 2020
    The Hub

    Carolyn Reidy will posthumously receive the National Book Foundation’s lifetime achievement award.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 8, 2020
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    Is Armie Hammer too sensual to play Maxim de Winter?

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    Playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar will be the next president of PEN America.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 8, 2020
    On Grief

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