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Comic-Con Is Online Only Again This Year. On The Bright Side, No Lines!

Like last year, the sidewalks around San Diego's convention center are empty and no one is lined up at the famed Hall H. Daniel Knighton/Getty Images hide caption

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Comic-Con Is Online Only Again This Year. On The Bright Side, No Lines!

No costumed crowds are thronging the streets of San Diego this weekend: For the second year in a row, Comic-Con is online only. But organizers are hoping for a small in-person show in November.

When Your Book Publishes In A Pandemic — Authors Talk About Terrible Timing

Author Sarah Ramey's first book was expected to be among 2020's bestsellers. But it was released the same week as the lockdown and got lost amid news of a global catastrophe. Julius Schlosburg hide caption

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When Your Book Publishes In A Pandemic — Authors Talk About Terrible Timing

A league of unfortunate writers had their books come out in the height of the coronavirus crisis — there are even several online support groups for authors who published mid-pandemic.

When Your Book Publishes In A Pandemic — Authors Talk About Terrible Timing

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Words To Set You Free
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Words To Set You Free

Some of the best books can make you feel free — free from your daily grind, free to imagine a new reality, free to explore different facets of your identity. This month, the Code Switch team is highlighting books that dig deep into what freedom really means.

Words To Set You Free

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Everyone Heard About Jeffrey Epstein's Enablers. Few Listened To His Victims

A member of the protest group Hot Mess holds up a sign of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City in July 2019. Epstein died by asphyxiation in his cell a month later. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images hide caption

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Everyone Heard About Jeffrey Epstein's Enablers. Few Listened To His Victims

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After Palm Beach sex offender Jeffrey Epstein received a lenient sentence for his crimes, journalist Julie K. Brown identified 80 women who had survived his abuse. Her book is Perversion of Justice.

Everyone Heard About Jeffrey Epstein's Enablers. Few Listened To His Victims

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'Women Of Brewster Place' Reissue Brims With Inventiveness — And Relevance
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'Women Of Brewster Place' Reissue Brims With Inventiveness — And Relevance

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Now newly reissued, Gloria Naylor's 1982 novel-in-stories painted a group portrait of seven Black women living on a dingy street in an unnamed city, and the systematic racism they faced.

'Women Of Brewster Place' Reissue Brims With Inventiveness — And Relevance

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Re-Revising 'The History Of Jazz'

Alice Coltrane, widow of jazz great John Coltrane, playing the piano in her California home, in front of a portrait of her late husband. Despite having practiced music since a very early age, Alice Coltrane's work only somewhat recently began to be recognized. J.Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption

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Re-Revising 'The History Of Jazz'

Ted Gioia first published his History of Jazz in 1997, updating it for the first time in 2011. This year he did so again, after a very important decade for the genre.

Reporters Reveal 'Ugly Truth' Of How Facebook Enables Hate Groups And Disinformation
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Reporters Reveal 'Ugly Truth' Of How Facebook Enables Hate Groups And Disinformation

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In a new book, Cecilia Kang and Sheera Frenkel say Facebook failed in its effort to combat disinformation. "Facebook knew the potential for explosive violence was very real [on Jan 6]," Kang says.

Reporters Reveal 'Ugly Truth' Of How Facebook Enables Hate Groups And Disinformation

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