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In Tigers Are Not Afraid, 11-year-old Estrella (Paola Lara) meets a gang of orphans led by a boy in a tiger mask.

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In 'Tigers Are Not Afraid,' A Dark Fantasy Amid Mexico's Drug War

8:06am August 25, 2019

by Leila Fadel

Director Issa López blends magical realism and horror with the current events of her native country in the story of young Estrella, who meets a street gang of fellow orphan children.

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'The Downstairs Girl' Faces Difficult History With Joy And Style

7:00am August 25, 2019

by Caitlyn Paxson

In Stacey Lee's new novel, an opinionated and talented Chinese American girl makes her way in Reconstruction-era Atlanta while preserving her secret work as an advice columnist in the local paper.

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Tope Folarin Was 'A Particular Kind Of Black Man' — So He Wrote A Book About It

5:17pm August 24, 2019

by Michel Martin

The semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale from the Nigerian-American writer, his debut novel, finds a child of African immigrants growing up in Utah.

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Nailed It: Bringing Science Into Nail Art

2:56pm August 24, 2019

by Luisa Torres

A young scientist decided that one way to get girls into science would be by painting neurons and parasitic worms on her nails.

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Tattoo Taints Larry Bird Mural

8:32am August 24, 2019

Basketball great Larry Bird is getting tattoo removal, or at least a mural of him is. Bird objected to a depiction of him on an Indianapolis building sporting what looked like multiple tattoos.

The Autumn of the Patriarch, by Gabriel García Márquez

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Buying Greenland? That's Nothing To Gabriel García Márquez

7:00am August 24, 2019

by Nina Martyris

Gabriel García Márquez's intricate, confusing, magnificent novel centers around a monstrous, nameless dictator — known only as the General or the Patriarch — who sells the entire Caribbean Sea.

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Top Publishers Sue Audible, Alleging Encroachment On Text Territory

7:17pm August 23, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

The seven plaintiffs, which include all of the publishing industry's Big Five, say the audiobook company is violating copyrights with a planned feature that would transcribe audiobooks for listeners.

The Mapping Memory exhibition in at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, displays maps made in the late 1500s of what is now Mexico. They were created by indigenous peoples to help Spanish invaders map occupied lands. This watercolor and ink map of

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440 Years Old And Filled With Footprints, These Aren't Your Everyday Maps

4:55pm August 23, 2019

by Wade Goodwyn

In 1577, King Philip II of Spain wanted to know whom he was ruling and where in his vast kingdom they were. So his viceroy asked the indigenous groups in what is now Mexico to draw some maps for him.

For her starring role as Vice President Selina Meyer in the seventh and final season of Veep, Julia Louis-Dreyfus recently received another Emmy Award nomination for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series. She won the award six years in a row from 20

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus: 'I Don't Think I've Made It ... And I Like That'

4:40pm August 23, 2019

by Audie Cornish

Nominated for a ninth Emmy Award in acting, the star of Veep and Seinfeld talks about getting her first laugh, her rocky start at Saturday Night Live and the #MeToo movement.

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'Fresh Air' Remembers 'Easy Rider' Peter Fonda

1:49pm August 23, 2019

by Terry Gross

The Oscar-nominated actor and screenwriter, who died Aug. 16, spoke to Terry Gross in 1998 about Ulee's Gold, Easy Rider and his acting philosophy of "doing less — and making more of it."

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