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40 years after she took the stage, 'Angelina Ballerina' is still dancing
Jan Bolgla and Bob Roarty have owned and operated Atlanta Vintage Books for more than 16 years. Fernando Alfonso III/NPR hide caption
Monkey thieves, drunk elephants — Mary Roach reveals a weird world of animal 'crime'
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Edward Enninful became the editor-in-chief of British Vogue in 2017. His new memoir is A Visible Man. Rafael Pavarotti/Penguin Random House hide caption
'British Vogue' editor-in-chief wants his magazine to reflect the world he sees
The Bluest Eye, The Hate U Give and Queer, There and Everywhere are among the books that have faced bans around the country. Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR hide caption
The bride and doom of Valyria: (L-R) Matt Smith, Gavin Spokes, Emily Carey, Paddy Considine, Milly Alcock, Theo Nate, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Wil Johnson, Savannah Steyn. HBO hide caption
Dear Life Kit: My husband wrote an 80-chapter book. Do I have to read it?
3 common thinking traps and how to avoid them, according to a Yale psychologist
Lisa McNair holds her memoir Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew, recounting growing up in Birmingham, Ala., after her sister Denise and three other Black girls were murdered in the Ku Klux Klan bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church. Taylor Jennings-Brown/NPR hide caption
Her sister was killed in the Birmingham church bombing. A new book tells their story
Nina Totenberg looks back on her decades-long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Ling Ma's first novel predicted the pandemic. Her new collection goes one step beyond
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Ling Ma's first novel predicted the pandemic. Her new collection goes one step beyond
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Does Social Media Leave You Feeling Angry? That Might Be Intentional
President Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices and nominated 274 individuals to federal judgeships. Journalist David Enrich says many of those picks were influenced by lawyers from the firm of Jones Day. Al Drago/Getty Images hide caption
How lawyers from one giant DC firm influenced Trump's Supreme Court picks
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