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![Monogamy, by Sue Miller](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/9780062969651_5ff54d4e-d1c6-4696-8467-fd1e44599b3c-82fe842c835f30a3955c9c33468749d0b92753c4.jpg)
BOOK REVIEW: A Widow Discovers That Her Marriage Wasn’t ‘Monogamy’
As the central character struggles with grief and shock at her late husband’s infidelity, author Sue Miller keeps deftly shifting what readers might anticipate to be the ending of this novel.
![U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo has authored numerous books of poetry, two children's books and a memoir, Crazy Brave. She is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. Shawn Miller/Library of Congress](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/48092158562_a7dd9ee0fe_k_custom-a5f86ab480d461596176b3d60c8eac0f735503cb-500x500.jpg)
Anthology Of Native Nations Poetry Is A ‘Doorway,’ Says Editor And Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through collects the work of more than 160 poets. “A poem opens up time, it opens up memory, it opens up place,” says Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate.
![Amy (left), played by Fathia Youssouf, and her mother Mariam, played by Maïmouna Gueye, in a still from the film, Cuties. CREDIT: Jean-Michel Papazian/Netflix](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/l100367120200823-6744-430spc_custom-80ee7377a03a84f412e4f5fec10773d3a6c20cfd-500x500.jpg)
French Film ‘Cuties’ Calls Out The Hypersexualization Of Young Girls – And Gets Criticized
The new French film, Cuties, is about an 11-year old Senegalese Muslim girl growing up in Paris and struggling with the contradictions between her strict upbringing and the demands of social media.
![Yaa Gyasi's first novel, Homegoing, won a National Book Critics Circle Award and a PEN/Hemingway Award. Her latest is Transcendent Kingdom. Peter Hurley/Vilcek Foundation/Penguin Random House](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-09-08_wide-e8e18d6f7acb66ee4ef92cd83aee2291414dc5b6-500x500.jpg)
Author Yaa Gyasi Says Writing Can Be ‘An Act Of Love And Justice’
Gyasi’s debut novel, Homegoing, won a PEN/Hemingway Award. Her follow-up, Transcendent Kingdom, draws on Gyasi’s life as the daughter of immigrants from Ghana.
![Xu Jingyao as Ruth (from left) Wang Qianhua as Lena and Xu Cenzi as Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun. CREDIT: Amy Cheng/NPR](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/img_6336_slide-55c367e94a89477655b9e3444038a885ca9513bb-500x500.jpg)
First Chinese-Language Production Of ‘A Raisin In The Sun’ Is Staged In Beijing
Lorraine Hansberry’s play is about a Black family’s struggle against racism in 1950s Chicago. At the Beijing People’s Art Theatre, director Ying Da is working to bring that story to Chinese audiences.
![Vesper Flights, by Helen Macdonald](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/vesper_custom-50825f2c23346b8d2c46c90b978087b9f5e642fb-500x500.jpg)
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Vesper Flights’ Offers Hope To A World In Desperate Need Of It
In her first book since the critically acclaimed H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald urges us to reconsider our relationship with the natural world — and fight to preserve it.
![Actor Chadwick Boseman in 2017. CREDIT: Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/gettyimages-825157334-bc551e2e7675d2d3244a0d059d99aec0c3682a81-500x500.jpg)
‘Black Panther’ Star Chadwick Boseman Dies Of Cancer At Age 43
A statement on posted to the actor’s Twitter on Friday said Boseman had battled colon cancer for the last four years.
![Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote, by Veronica Chambers and the Staff of The New York Times Versify](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/women_custom-94a7c45be837eb427f406c455c9d53e119500a52-500x500.jpg)
‘Finish The Fight’ Book Paints A Different Picture Of Women Who Pushed For The Right To Vote
The 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment offers an opportunity to take a closer look at stories of women of the movement — those we think we already know, and those that have been lost to history.
![Sterling K. Brown has been nominated as best lead actor in a drama series for This Is Us and best supporting actor in a comedy series for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon's Prime Video. He's pictured above in Beverly Hills, Calif., in August 2017. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Sterling-K-Brown-CREDIT-Chris-Pizzello-Invision-AP-500x500.jpg)
Sterling K. Brown: Black Actors Have Waited ‘A Long Time To Be Fully Recognized’
Brown has made Emmy history this year — nominated as best lead actor in a drama series for This Is Us and best supporting actor in a comedy series for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
FILM REVIEW: Wild And Daring, ‘Tesla’ Captures The Spirit Of An Unorthodox Inventor
Ethan Hawke plays the famed Serbian American inventor in a new film that reminds us what a modern creature Tesla was — a figure from the past who never stopped pointing the way to the future.
![I Promise by LeBron James. Courtesy of HarperCollins](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/81eb-qpvftl_custom-bf22e9ec9c2395401e4bb548424a2c9695f5e19f-500x500.jpg)
‘I Promise’ This Is A Message Book Your Kids Will Love
Kids’ books columnist Juanita Giles says message books are often nutritious and boring — but LeBron James’s new I Promise combines beautiful art with real emotional impact that her kids loved.
![The Rodin Museum in Paris is selling sculptures to pay the bills — and that's exactly as the artist intended. When he died in 1917, Auguste Rodin left the museum plaster casts for just this purpose. Above, The Thinker (Le Penseur) is pictured ahead of the Musée Rodin's reopening in November 2015. CREDIT: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/gettyimages-496003758_custom-78bed30db13fd74f9214ac4b1b7f2c801d895433-500x500.jpg)
Good Thinking: How Rodin Ensured The Financial Future Of His Paris Museum
The Rodin Museum in Paris is selling sculptures to pay the bills — and that’s exactly as the artist intended. When he died in 1917, Rodin left the museum plaster casts for just this purpose.