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Clockwise from left: Cocaine Bear, Luke Macfarlane in Platonic, Danielle Brooks and Fantasia Barrino in The Color Purple, Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies, the cover of the book Starter Villain, Jessica Williams in Shrinking. Universal Pictures; Apple TV+; Eli Adé/Warner Bros. Pictures; Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images; Tor Books; Apple TV+ hide caption
Gear Heads, Lisa McManus and Hannah Crowley are on the lookout for the best kitchen tools. Courtesy of America's Test Kitchen/America's Test Kitchen hide caption
Nothing to fear with kitchen gear: 'America's Test Kitchen' guide to tools, gadgets
Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on the Mall in Washington, D.C. Activists marked 60 years since the march in 2023. AFP via Getty Images hide caption
South African naturalist Adam Welz traveled the world to understand how climate change is "weirding" ecosystems. One of his questions: How to stay hopeful in a warming world? Brian Mann/NPR hide caption
A naturalist finds hope despite climate change in an era he calls 'The End of Eden'
(L-R) Taraji P. Henson as Shug Avery, Fantasia Barrino as Celie and Danielle Brooks as Sofia in The Color Purple, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption
'Everyone walked away with part of themselves healed' – 'The Color Purple' reimagined
Taraji P. Henson, Fantasia Barrino, and Danielle Brooks in a scene from The Color Purple. Warner Bros. Studios hide caption
Amazon-owned Goodreads makes little effort to verify users, and critics say this enables a practice known as review-bombing, in which a book is flooded with negative reviews, often from fake accounts, in an effort to bring down a its rating, sometimes for reasons having nothing to do with the book's contents. Becky Harlan/NPR hide caption
Goodreads has a 'review bombing' problem — and wants its users to help solve it
A display of some books that have been challenged around the country is seen at the Mott Haven branch of the New York Public Library in the Bronx, New York City, Oct. 7. Ted Shaffrey/AP hide caption
To fight so-called book bans, some states are threatening to withhold funding
Christian Wiman is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose. He's been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and served as editor of POETRY magazine. Danielle Chapman/FSG hide caption
After 18 years living with cancer, a poet offers 'Fifty Entries Against Despair'
Cord Jefferson, right, writer/director/producer of "American Fiction," is seen with cast member Jeffrey Wright, left, and Percival Everett, author of the book Erasure upon which the movie is based, at a screening of the film on Dec. 5 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
This 1946 file photo shows mystery novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler. AP hide caption
A page from Transitions: A Mother's Journey. Top Shelf Productions hide caption
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In a year of book bans, Maureen Corrigan's top 10 affirm the joy of reading widely
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In a year of book bans, Maureen Corrigan's top 10 affirm the joy of reading widely
Author Kai Cheng Thom next to the cover of her recent book, Falling Back in Love with Being Human. Author photo by Rachel Woroner hide caption