Month: May 2022

Taking in the discourse during America’s pastime.

The new book, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals), is designed to be teenager friendly. It’s filled with comics and humor and accessible science on the diversity of sexual behavior in the animal world.

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Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy “Triangle of Sadness” won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, giving Ostlund the prize for the second time.

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The latest obsessions in America’s wellness craze are rooted in South Asian practices. Industry leaders who grew up with those rituals are caught between joy and a battle against cultural erasure.

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The double threat of climate change and the global pandemic has made post-apocalyptic fiction an undeniably thriving and popular genre. Author David Yoon has one of the latest entrants.

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Carrari may lack an iconic logo, but there’s no mistaking the midlife crises cruising around in the driver’s seats of these bad boys.

Silverman’s 2010 memoir The Bedwetter has been adapted into a musical. Maureen Corrigan recommends novels for summer. Goetsch chronicles her later-in-life transition in the memoir This Body I Wore.

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The seven-person civil jury began its deliberations at 3 p.m. Friday and finished for the day about two hours later. They will resume Tuesday.

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