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How did you prepare for Y2K? Did you know someone who could take “What if’s?” exponentially higher than a moon…
Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues LegendJackie Kay Vintage $16.95 Kay, a child of color adopted by white…
Jeanne Louise Calment was born 21 February 1875 in Arles, France, and died there August 4, 1997. One hundred twenty-two…
Afterparties: StoriesAnthony Veasna SoHarper Collins$27.99 So died last December before the publication of his first book, a stunning set of…
While we continue to politicize, religicize, normalize into a soccer opponent, or deny their existence, viruses and concomitant diseases like…
Some people can say egregious things and be remembered warmly for decades, quoted with a chuckle like Yogi Berra’s sage…
Why Are There Still Creationists?Jonathan MarksPolity$22.95 Despite overwhelming evidence that humans are descended from among the apes, though branching long, long ago,…
Simone Biles pulling out of scheduled exercises was not “letting down” her team, as some critics asserted. It would, in…
Scrooge McDuck, vainly attempting to close the door on his three-cubic-acre money bin as it bulges and spills specie across…
In the early days of space flight, young women also wanted to become astronauts, but it was white guys only.…
