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NY Public Library Is Giving Away 500,000 Free Books This Summer
Young New Yorkers across the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island can head to any NYPL branch and pick up a free book.
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A Look at the Country's Only Touring Black Rodeo
The Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo has helped validate and redefine the largely untold story of Black cowboys and cowgirls in the American West.
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Capturing the Lovers of New York’s Beaches
Erica Reade’s photos meditate on moments of romance and intimacy in public spaces.
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Laurie Parsons’s Disappearing Act
An artist book introduced by curator Bob Nickas seeks to introduce a new generation to the artist, who abandoned her art career 30 years ago to practice social work.
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Scenes From a Refugee Childhood
As a coming-of-age memoir during World War II, Zoe Beloff’s Reminiscences of a Refugee Childhood is a document of a generation rapidly fading from living memory.
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A Time Before Whiteness
D. S. Marriott’s poems are a descent through the history of slavery, immigration, and the movement of refugees.
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The Golden Era of Cape Cod’s Bohemia
John Taylor Williams’s The Shores of Bohemia traces the formation of postwar American culture with an intimate account of the legendary summer gatherings of artists, writers, and activists at Cape Cod.
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Walter Murch Sought to “Paint the Air” Between His Eye and His Subject
Murch’s painted dust can be so tangible you feel compelled to wipe off the picture.
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In Nature, a Poet Finds a Visionary Language
The poems of Cody-Rose Clevidence are shot through with a sense of nature’s vitality and with the possibility that the numinous, even the divine, may inhere in that nature.
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An Insightful Look Into the Lives of Women Over 50
The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty is a celebration of the strength and insight of women from across the world.
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The Heist (or Repatriation) of the Century
Portrait of a Thief imagines what would happen if some overly confident 20-somethings proved the life of museum objects isn’t as clear-cut as it seems.
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Diane di Prima’s Autobiographical Work Never Received the Same Attention as Her Poetry
After her closest friend leapt to his death, the poet recorded her memories of him every day for a year.