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Developer Gareth Damian Martin tackles gig work, trauma and communities in crisis in the follow up to the acclaimed game Citizen Sleeper.

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Author Ricky Riccardi says Armstrong’s innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the entire soundtrack of the 20th century. His new book about Armstrong’s early life is Stomp Off, Let’s Go.

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Actor, writer and director Jesse Eisenberg says he has had more failures than successes. In this week’s Wild Card, he opens up about ambition and his his defense against despair.

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The excellent Netflix series Mo is about a man who figures out how to get by: how to find work as someone who can’t work legally, how to navigate the asylum process as a Palestinian refugee in Texas, and how to care for the people he loves. The show’s star and co-creator is the standup Mo Amer. The story dives into immigration, identity, and a family as they work to map out a secure future. Mo just returned for a second season, so in this encore episode, we revisit our conversation about the series.

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Kick off the Year of the Snake with two romances: Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen, and Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham.

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The filmmakers of this emotionally powerful documentary followed Delwin Fiddler Jr. as he returned home to South Dakota after years in Philadelphia — then kept revisiting him for more than a decade.

“Smartphones make our alone time feel more crowded than it used to be,” says journalist Derek Thompson. His article in The Atlantic is called “The Anti-Social Century.”

The Smithsonian isn’t a federal agency, but it gets much of its funding from federal appropriations.

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Now that Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due.

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