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A modern-day Huck Finn travels the Mississippi on a flatboatNo one thought journalist Rinker Buck would succeed in taking a flatboat from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. He proves them wrong in 鈥淟ife on the Mississippi.鈥�
Cover StoryWhat can a library card get you? Try a popcorn maker or ukulele.Public libraries, among America鈥檚 oldest institutions, find new relevance in shelves stocked with everything from telescopes to cheese warmers.聽
Where the Nile began: The perilous journey to seek the river鈥檚 sourceAn expedition to discover the Nile River鈥檚 origin was the 鈥淗oly Grail鈥� of 19th-century exploration, as聽Candice Millard鈥檚 鈥淩iver of the Gods鈥� shows.聽
Mohsin Hamid鈥檚 novel 鈥楾he Last White Man鈥� imagines a post-racial worldBritish Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid explores a provocative question: Can white supremacy persist, if no one is white any longer?聽
Survival tale 鈥楾he Wall鈥� pits a woman against strange forcesAustrian writer Marlen Haushofer鈥檚 survival novel tells the story of a woman trapped behind a strange, impenetrable wall in a Bavarian forest.聽
Bracing cultural criticism flows from the pen of Elaine CastilloProvocative and pointed literary criticism in 鈥淗ow to Read Now: Essays鈥� challenges people to become better, smarter, less Euro-centric readers.
How Sasha Alsberg stays true to herself in the romance genreSasha Alsberg, who has a half-million followers on social media, explains how she stays true to herself and how she wrote her novel 鈥淏reaking Time.鈥�
How 鈥楤ull Durham鈥� went from long shot to movie classicDirector Ron Shelton鈥檚聽鈥淭he Church of Baseball鈥� tells聽the story behind his most famous film 鈥� one of the most popular sports movies of all time.聽
Singer, dancer, pilot, spy: Josephine Baker鈥檚 wartime careerFame gave Josephine Baker a cover for espionage during World War II, when her frequent tours enabled her to smuggle secrets out of occupied France.聽
Giving Black women in pop music their due: Q&A with author of 鈥楽hine Bright鈥�Journalist and super fan Danyel Smith champions the role of Black women in pop music in 鈥淪hine Bright,鈥� which combines memoir with music history.聽
She overcame bias as a woman in science. Her memoir is testimony.Lindy Elkins-Tanton, lead scientist for NASA鈥檚 Psyche mission, describes challenges and successes in 鈥淎 Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman.鈥澛�
Need a summer escape? Travel to coastal Maine, East Germany, occupied France.The 10 best books of July flaunt Cold War-era spies, ice-cap explorers, and Maine summer people.
Native American superhero comics leap stereotypes in a single boundA bookstore in New Mexico fosters a community of Native artists, writers,聽and fans of the flourishing Indigenous comic book genre. 聽
If 鈥榳ork is the new religion,鈥� does society lose out?Silicon Valley strives to meet workers鈥� every need. But what happens when employees get so ensconced in work that they disengage from outside life?聽
Friendship tested, lives transformed in sublime novel 鈥楩ellowship Point鈥�Coastal Maine provides the setting for 鈥淔ellowship Point,鈥� Alice Elliott Dark鈥檚聽resplendent novel about caring for the places we love.聽聽
鈥楽tar-Spangled Banner鈥�: How its meaning changes with each generationAmerica鈥檚 national anthem forged a vision of unity. Today, says a musicologist, it can also highlight 鈥渨hether the country is living up to its ideals.鈥�
The heyday of shopping malls is gone, but far from forgottenShopping malls, the once-gleaming symbols of suburban American prosperity, are ripe for reinvention and reuse, writes an architecture critic.聽
From the particular to the universal: Cross-cultural stories鈥淎 Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times鈥� by Ethiopian American writer Meron Hadero highlights immigrant stories of dislocation and identity.
A history of American thought on abortion: It鈥檚 not what you thinkWith Roe and Casey overturned on Friday, legal scholar Geoffrey R. Stone, author聽of 鈥淪ex and the Constitution,鈥� talks abortion history鈥檚 evolution in American thought.
The fall of Tyrannosaurus rex and the rise of mammals on EarthTyrannosaurus bones help聽piece together the story of dinosaurs鈥� demise, while mammals emerged and adapted, in two outstanding natural history books.聽
