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    To Poets of Color Whose Work Has Been Called ‘Healing’

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    Queer Culture

    Capturing the Soul of Fire Island: Attitude Without Judgment

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    Mathematics

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    Education

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    Lenny Kravitz announces his memoir, with very sexy results.

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    HBO just paid seven figures for the rights to Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half.

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    “This cannot be good.” Baz Luhrmann on producing the maybe-cursed Master and Margarita.

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    Awards

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    Black Lives Matter

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    Book Covers

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    Life in a Pandemic

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    JK Rowling deletes praise of Stephen King on Twitter because he supports trans rights.

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    Beam me up: here are the Locus Awards winners!

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