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![Base for a water pipe (hookah), 1650-1700. India; Bidar, Karnataka state. Zinc alloy with inlaid silver and brass. CREDIT: Asian Art Museum](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/b86m11_custom-f8b0aac032c6e3f2bbacd249403cb49f18fca870-500x500.jpg)
Need 2 Minutes Of Calm? Inhale, Exhale … And Click Here
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum has been asking staffers to highlight favorite objects in the collection. Curator Forrest McGill chose the base of a hookah, made in 17th century India.
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Jane Eyre’ Meets ‘Dracula’ In This Sharp, Inventive ‘Mexican Gothic’ Tale
A young woman tries to free her cousin from a dangerous living situation in a crumbling family mansion in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel. Mexican Gothic injects fresh blood into a classic genre.
![The cast of Hamilton, including its composer and creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, center, receive a standing ovation in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Jan. 11, 2019. The musical is set to stream on Disney+ this week. CREDIT: Carlos Giusti/AP](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ap_19012121538219-4dc337198fd82c70a8ba846429b7592039c55e18-500x500.jpg)
Lin-Manuel Miranda Sees The ‘Language Of Revolution’ In ‘Hamilton’ And Today
Lin-Manuel Miranda says his musical Hamilton, which starts streaming on Disney+ this week, shows “everything that’s past is present.”
![President Barack Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to author Rudolfo Anaya at a ceremony in September](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/gettyimages-609770668_custom-9b8685861667a37f488e3ccc6d02f18e79120133-500x500.jpg)
Rudolfo Anaya, A Founding Father Of Chicano Literature, Dies At 82
Anaya’s 1972 classic Bless Me, Ultima — about a young Mexican American boy and his curandera mentor in New Mexico in the 1940s — inspired a generation of Chicano writers.
![A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team, by Arshay Cooper. CREDIT: Flatiron Books](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/rowing_custom-9683b00edcc8832f235ae42dd7c3623e49025444-500x500.jpg)
‘A Most Beautiful Thing’ Tells Of The First U.S. All-Black High School Rowing Team
In A Most Beautiful Thing, Arshay Cooper shares the story of how he, and others from rival gang neighborhoods on Chicago’s West Side, found their way to crew — and each other.
![American actor Clark Gable in his role as Rhett Butler kissing the hand of a tearful Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh in 'Gone With The Wind'.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/gettyimages-2698732-eac1786065e9924f641baa7e5bb00e36d1f8454f-500x500.jpg)
‘Gone With The Wind’ Returns To HBO Max With New Introduction
HBO Max temporarily removed the 1939 film from its streaming service in early June for its depiction of ‘racial prejudices.’ The film now includes an introduction addressing its controversial legacy.
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‘I See These Conversations As Protective’: Talking With Kids About Race
What does it mean to be anti-racist, and how should adults talk to kids about race and racism? Children’s author Renée Watson and anti-racism scholar Ibram X. Kendi suggest starting with books.
![Matthew Rhys plays Perry Mason in the new HBO reboot of the legal drama based on Erle Stanley Gardner's detective stories. "To my mind, he makes a good private investigator because he doesn't fit in in any way," Rhys says. CREDIT: Merrick Morton/HBO](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/matthew-rhys_custom-7fd328f3db0f4b3690e684b9f30f3437dda1dc88-500x500.jpg)
‘Perry Mason’ Reboot Is No Rerun: This Is A ‘Very Dark’ Take, Says Matthew Rhys
Welsh actor Matthew Rhys stars in the HBO version of the 1960s legal drama. This Perry Mason is a seamy, slovenly private eye in 1932 Los Angeles. “He doesn’t fit in in any way,” Rhys says.
![Miss Iceland by Audur Ava Ólafsdóttir](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Book-cover-Miss-Iceland-Audur-Ava-Ólafsdóttir-500x500.jpg)
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Miss Iceland’ Is A Subdued, Powerful Portrait Of A Suppressed Society
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir’s atmospheric novel, about a young writer and her outcast friends in 1963 Iceland, will transport you to another time and place, though not necessarily a rosier time and place.
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‘I Want Teens To Recognize Their Own Power’: Questions For Young Adult Author Liara Tamani
Tamani’s new young adult novel follows two high school basketball stars who fall in love at first sight — but then have to deal with their own issues and secrets to build a lasting relationship.
![Although it provided few details Hollywood's motion picture academy said new measures will "develop and implement new representation and inclusion standards for Oscars eligibility by July 31." CREDIT: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Oscar-statue-CREDIT-Chris-Pizzello-Invision-AP-500x500.jpg)
Academy Says Future Films Must Meet Diversity And Inclusion Rules For Oscars
The effort by the Motion Picture Academy to de-white-ify the film community includes a plan to change eligibility standards for award nominees “to ensure that all voices are heard and celebrated.”
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Brit Bennett Set Her Novel ‘The Vanishing Half’ 50 Years Ago — She Didn’t Expect It To Be ‘Timely’
The Vanishing Half is about African American twins — one lives as a black woman, the other “passes” as white. Passing is “an act of self-creation and also an act of self-destruction,” Bennett says.