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An Open Letter to Those In Power Who Silently Watched Genocide And Said Nothing

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ALT: Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams Gives Thumbs Up

Alt: The young Black actor Will Smith as James Darrell Edwards III / Agent J in a scene from the film Men in Black. He's donning sunglasses and is wearing a black suit with white shirt and black tie. There's a crowd of onlookers behind him.

In 1960, a country boy named Glen Campbell showed up in Los Angeles with a guitar, a pompadour hairdo, and a lean, hungry look....

Casablanca used cardboard, fog, and every trick Warner Bros. could find. Then the cameras turned toward people who knew exactly what it meant to flee the Nazis.

Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize. Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood.

How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have together on this lonely, perfect planet. The seventh annual Universe in Verse — a many-hearted labor of love, celebrating the wonder of reality through science and poetry — occasioned a joyous collaboration with Australian musician and writer Nick Cave and Brazilian artist and filmmaker Daniel Bruson on an animated poem reckoning with this central question of being alive. BUT WE HAD MUSIC by Maria Popova Right… read article

"...a stillness in which the germ of what is not yet palpable pauses and gathers to begin one more time."