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Lauren Groff considers the dangers of the luxury beach resort: “I’m busy obsessing over the unintended consequences of our stay, such as the environmental degradation caused by bringing wasteful tourists to delicate ecosystems and the racist and classist issues of displacement.” | The Atlantic
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“I came to know Butler perhaps the way she would have wanted me to know her, the way we all should know her: in the company of others.” Sasha Ann Panaram on the world of Octavia E. Butler. | Public Books
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Denne Michele Norris introduces Both/And, an essay series for trans and gender nonconforming writers of color: “Giving voice to our perspective, our history, what transness is, and what it isn’t—this is work that we must do. And we must be the loudest, most visible ones doing it.” | Electric Lit
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In honor of its 125th anniversary, the Brooklyn Public Library has put together a quintessential Brooklyn reading list. | BPL
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“The challenge is that mothering resists a coherent narrative, existing in glimpses, anecdotes, the baffled awareness that time is lurching on without you.” Joanna Scutts considers the art-baby problem. | The New Republic
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Todd Cronan discusses Zadie Smith’s relationship to class, which “travels a surprising and instructive route.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
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