Jen Doll’s new novel follows a group of misfit kids working at Alabama’s legendary Unclaimed Baggage store, a place where all kinds of lost things (and people, and one purple leopard suitcase) end up.

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That’s one of the themes in the new book ‘Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity.’

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In a humor piece, Pia Mileaf-Patel illustrates some affordable studio apartments in New York City.

After a week of tense negotiations, Christine Blasey Ford says she will share her “first-hand knowledge” about Brett Kavanaugh with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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“The language of type can be immensely clarifying,” says author Merve Emre. In The Personality Brokers she describes how a mother-daughter duo started a multi-million dollar “people sorting” industry.

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Love, Gilda, explores the life of one of the original SNL cast members, Gilda Radner. NPR’s Melissa Block speaks to the director, Lisa D’Apolito, about the struggles Radner faced off camera.

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Your card decline. “Ummmm lower your voice.”

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Whether your work space is an entire room or a simple desk, these products juuuust might make you excited to get crap done.

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