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Blue Beetle (Xolo Maridueña) looks to the future. So does the movie he's in. Warner Bros. hide caption
A woman passes by a mural of the rapper Biggie Smalls on a wall in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
As hip-hop turns 50, Biggie Smalls' legacy reminds us of what the genre has survived
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Books We Love: Book Club Ideas
Drew Gilpin Faust served as president of Harvard from 2007 until 2018. She is currently the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor. Stephanie Mitchell/MacMillan hide caption
Harvard's Drew Gilpin Faust says history should make us uncomfortable
Kate Zernike is a national reporter for the New York Times. Harry Zernike/Simon and Schuster hide caption
This book dissects the years-long battle for gender equality at MIT
Rabbit and Opossum come to life in 'Ancient Night' — a new twist on an old legend
The cover of Daughters of Latin America. Harper Collins hide caption
These poems by Latin American women reflect a multilingual region
The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush Courtesy of Milkweed Editions hide caption
An author's journey to Antarctica — and motherhood — in 'The Quickening'
"Every decade of my life has been better than the one beforehand," says R. Eric Thomas. Penguin Random House hide caption
Don't believe his book title: For humorist R. Eric Thomas, the best is yet to come
Why mathematician Eugenia Cheng is embracing the question, "Is math real?"
This 'Evergreen' LA noir novel imagines the post-WWII reality of Japanese Americans
Author Pidgeon Pagonis was raised a girl but was born with both female and male sexual organs. They tell their story of discovering who they really in a memoir released August 15, 2023. Sarah Joyce/Courtesy of TOPPLE/Little A hide caption
Pidgeon Pagonis reveals a long held secret in 'Nobody Needs to Know'
James McBride's 'Heaven & Earth' is an all-American mix of prejudice and hope
Reprinted from EMILE AND THE FIELD. Copyright © 2022 by Kevin Young. Illustrations copyright © 2022 by Chioma Ebinama Make Me a World, an imprint of Random House Children's Books hide caption
A little boy falls in love with nature in 'Emile and the Field'
School librarian Amanda Jones endured harassment and threats after speaking out in defense of a diverse selection of books in the public libraries of Livingston Parish, La. Abdul Aziz for NPR hide caption