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She calls her latest book \u003cem>A Life in Essays\u003c/em>, which I found reductive. Although the first group of essays is entitled \u003cem>Autobiography\u003c/em>, this volume reaches far beyond Nell Painter’s own story in the best possible way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Painter’s \u003cem>The History of White People\u003c/em> combines scholarship with readability to prove that “whiteness” is a relatively newly created sociological construct. Slavery has been around for millennia, as has war and conquering peoples, but whiteness, with its bizarre, insidious, and pervasive myths about racial superiority, dates from around the 15th century forward. The concept of whiteness is entangled with America’s mendacious justifications for its capture and trade in human beings, and the terrible, lasting consequences of chattel slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Painter has been clear that she stands on the shoulders of others in naming whiteness as a construct. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The fall to-do list is long: There are apples to be picked, Oktoberfest beers to sip, elections to vote in, and of course — so many new books to read! We sorted through the current and upcoming releases to find 16 titles you should watch out for this fall. Dive in!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fiction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction.png\" alt=\"Eight book covers laid out in two rows of four.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1217\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction-800x487.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction-1020x621.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction-768x467.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction-1536x935.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction-1920x1168.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiction recommendations from NPR. \u003ccite>(NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Creation Lake’ by Rachel Kushner (Sept. 3)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kushner’s new novel is about a spy named Sadie Smith (great spy name), infiltrating an eco-extremist group in southern France. The book’s already being met with great reviews, including a spot on the longlist for the Booker Prize, the UK’s fanciest literary award.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Guide Me Home’ by Attica Locke (Sept. 3) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Darren Matthews is a detective pulled out of retirement for \u003cem>one last case\u003c/em>. This time it’s the case of a Black college student missing from an all white sorority. Locke is a longtime hand at writing crime novels, and this is the conclusion of her Highway 59 trilogy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘A Sunny Place for Shady People’ by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell (Sept. 17) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Enriquez has made a name for herself blending supernatural horrors (ghosts, haunted houses, witches, that sort of thing) with the concrete horrors of everyday life in Argentina. Her last novel was a nearly 600-page tome, but this newest one is a collection of shorts — like a pillowcase full of trick-or-treat candies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The Mighty Red’ by Louise Erdrich (Oct. 1) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The newest Erdrich release (which is always a big deal in the literary world) will take place during the economic crisis of 2008. There’s something of a love triangle in this book, with a woman named Kismet at the center. But Kismet’s mother has reason to worry about Kismet’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The Great When’\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>by Alan Moore (Oct. 1) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legendary comic book writer returns with his first novel since \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/09/18/494287211/in-jerusalem-nothing-youve-ever-lost-is-truly-gone\">\u003cu>2016’s \u003c/u>\u003cem>\u003cu>Jerusalem.\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a> This new one takes place in postwar London, following a young bookshop employee named Dennis who find a copy of a book from a \u003cem>different\u003c/em>, more fantastical London.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Bull Moon Rising’ by Ruby Dixon (Oct. 15) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dixon is the author behind the \u003cem>Ice Planet Barbarians\u003c/em> series, a world of romance/erotica books with a fairly outlandish premise (Women land on a planet of sexy aliens. They do stuff together). Her new book is the start of a whole new world where our hero Aspeth Honori marries a minotaur.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Absolution’ by Jeff VanderMeer (Oct. 22) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The popular Southern Reach trilogy becomes a quadrilogy nearly 10 years after the original series was released. This newest book is a prequel, exploring the origins of the mysterious Area X.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The City and its Uncertain Walls’\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel (Nov. 19) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The latest novel from Japanese writer Haruki Murakami comes out in English this fall. It’s his first in six years, taking place in a fantastical realm where people read dreams and shadows can become untethered from their source. In classic Murakami fashion, the book touches on themes of loss, loneliness, and isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nonfiction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction.png\" alt=\"Eight book covers laid out in two rows of four.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1218\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction-800x487.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction-1020x621.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction-768x468.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction-1536x935.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction-1920x1169.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nonfiction recommendations from NPR. \u003ccite>(NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>‘Lovely One: A Memoir’ \u003c/em>by Ketanji Brown Jackson (Sept. 3) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>America’s first Black female Supreme Court justice writes a memoir detailing her early childhood, and the hurdles she faced coming up in the legal world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘We’re Alone: Essays’ by Edwidge Danticat (Sept. 3) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This essay collection finds Danticat looking back at her native country of Haiti. Not with the naive rose-colored glasses of nostalgia, but with full awareness of the complicated nature of “resilience” and the mixed feelings anyone has about where they came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Reagan: His Life and Legend’ by Max Boot (Sept. 10) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For the person in your life obsessed with presidential biographies, Boot’s newest book is a deeply reported look into the life of Ronald Reagan. Covering his childhood, his Hollywood years and, of course, his presidency, Boot portrays a man that is somehow both more\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/27/reagan-ideologue-pragmatist-boot/\">\u003cu> ideological and more pragmatic than\u003c/u>\u003c/a> we might think.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Connie: A Memoir’ by Connie Chung (Sept. 17) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Connie Chung is a broadcast legend. As the first woman to co-anchor the \u003cem>CBS Evening News\u003c/em> as well as the first Asian to anchor a national news broadcast in the U.S., Chung has got loads of stories to share about breaking into the industry and dealing with rivals and the other men in her way.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The Message’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Oct. 1) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Coates’ 2015 book \u003cem>Between the World and Me\u003c/em> made a huge splash, winning awards and audiences as it addressed race in America. Since then, Coates has written comics, a novel, and did some reporting. And this new book is the result of that reporting, documenting his travels everywhere from the West Bank to Columbia, South Carolina, in order to come to terms with the myths we tell ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Sonny Boy: A Memoir’\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>by Al Pacino (Oct. 15) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was Pacino’s mom that first used the nickname Sonny Boy. 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"content": "\u003cp>Little is known about how Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel is spending her retirement, and that seems to be the way she likes it. Thanks to a German crime fiction series adapted for television and now proving a hit in Italy, she is back in the headlines — this time as a fictional small-town amateur sleuth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the title suggests, \u003cem>Miss Merkel \u003c/em>is a whodunnit that imagines the former chancellor as an Agatha Christie-style detective who starts solving crimes out of sheer boredom. For want of a G7 or European Union summit, Merkel is desperate to put down the garden shears and get back to solving something, anything! This time, it’s a village murder. Move over, Miss Marple!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962860']The TV adaptation stars German theater doyenne Katharina Thalbach as Merkel. Like Merkel, Thalbach is 70 and from former East Germany. 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She is wearing a purple pantsuit.\" width=\"1292\" height=\"856\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.02.05 PM.png 1292w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.02.05 PM-800x530.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.02.05 PM-1020x676.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.02.05 PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.02.05 PM-768x509.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a scene from the TV series, ‘Miss Merkel,’ played by Katharina Thalbach, solves a murder case while her guests listen attentively. \u003ccite>(RTL/Maor Waisburd)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thalbach has met Merkel a number of times but is not sure whether the ex-chancellor is a fan of \u003cem>Miss Merkel\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last time I saw Angela, I tried to find out whether she’s read the books or seen the series,” Thalbach recalls. “But she deftly dodged the question, saying instead that her office staff are big fans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The books’ author, David Safier, known previously for his fictional accounts of the Holocaust and his work as a scriptwriter\u003cem>,\u003c/em> says he’s also none the wiser as to what Merkel thinks of his alternative retirement plan for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.04.10%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1296\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.04.10 PM.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.04.10 PM-800x535.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.04.10 PM-1020x682.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.04.10 PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.04.10 PM-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for an onstage conversation in Berlin in 2022, the year after she retired from politics. \u003ccite>(Sean Gallup/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Probably she has read the novels,” Safier speculates. “To be honest, if there would be a crime novel where you are the hero, wouldn’t you at least read the first 10 pages?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the books are a commercial success, the small-screen adaptation by RTL — which will be \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2024/07/angela-merkel-detective-series-mhz-choice-fremantle-1236025405/\">available to stream later this year in the U.S.\u003c/a> — has received lukewarm reviews in Germany. The broadsheet \u003ca href=\"https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/miss-merkel-krimi-mit-katharina-thalbach-bei-rtl-19595059.html\">\u003cem>\u003cu>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung \u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>acknowledged the star power that Thalbach’s performance brings to the production, but lamented the show’s “corny jokes.” German magazine \u003ca href=\"https://www.focus.de/kultur/kino_tv/miss-merkel-im-uckermark-krimi-schraeger-wird-es-2023-im-tv-nicht-mehr_id_188954431.html\">\u003cem>\u003cu>Fokus\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a> suggested the production company engage Safier as the scriptwriter, seeing as he won an Emmy for a German sitcom \u003cem>Berlin, Berlin. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13963389']Safier came up with the idea for \u003cem>Miss Merkel\u003c/em> in 2019, on the day Merkel announced she wouldn’t be running for a fifth term. He says he sat down to watch an old rerun of \u003cem>Columbo \u003c/em>that same evening and the idea for his top-10 \u003cem>Spiegel\u003c/em> bestseller\u003ca href=\"https://bestsellerbucher.de/\">\u003cu> \u003c/u>\u003c/a>was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safier says Angela Merkel makes for a consummate detective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Merkel is highly intelligent, much more intelligent than other politicians,” he says. “She is strongheaded. And, after 30 years in politics, she’s used to dealing with sociopaths and psychopaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Miss Marple, Merkel is often underestimated — something the former chancellor used to her advantage throughout her political career. 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When she’s questioning a suspect, she knows that she has to wear him down,” Safier says of his main character. “Merkel knows what it’s like to probe and ask questions over and over again. She did it until the early hours at countless EU summits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Miss Marple, Merkel is actually a Mrs. — a Frau Dr., that is, with a Ph.D. in quantum chemistry. In the TV series, Merkel’s husband asks why she’s still wearing her trademark pantsuits in retirement. Her answer could be considered classic Merkel logic: “I’ve still got 50 of them in my wardrobe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angie nostalgia aside, Safier says that in his next book, Miss Merkel is seeing a therapist after realizing, while writing her memoirs, that she neglected to solve a number of issues during her time in office — be it Germany’s ailing railway system or relations with Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merkel was something of an enigma in office. Now, in retirement, the fictional version of her is an open book. The real version is set to be revealed in November. That’s when Safier’s next installment comes out — and when the real Merkel publishes her \u003ca href=\"https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/angela-merkel/freedom/9781035020751\">\u003cu>autobiography\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1558px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/kafkaland-cover.png\" alt=\"A book cover featuring an illustration of a man with wild hair, smoking a pipe and tumbling backwards.\" width=\"1558\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/kafkaland-cover.png 1558w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/kafkaland-cover-800x1027.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/kafkaland-cover-1020x1309.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/kafkaland-cover-160x205.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/kafkaland-cover-768x986.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/kafkaland-cover-1197x1536.png 1197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1558px) 100vw, 1558px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe,’ by Ken Krimstein. \u003ccite>(Bloomsbury Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s April 1, 1911, and 32-year-old Albert Einstein — former bureaucrat at the Swiss Patent Office, with a half-decade old doctorate in physics from the University of Zurich — sits in a train car with his two sons and his wife, fellow physicist and mathematician Mileva Marić. They are traveling from Zurich to Prague, where Einstein has landed a job as a full professor in theoretical physics, teaching in the German section of what is now Charles University. He has a few things on his mind, including money troubles, but most critical is his unfinished theory of relativity. When they leave the city 15 months later, Einstein will have cracked the code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens over the course of this long, mysterious year in Prague is the question driving Ken Krimstein’s new graphic novel \u003cem>Einstein in Kafkaland\u003c/em>. Part biography, part historical fiction, Krimstein playfully explores the possibilities, building, with footnotes, on a thorough archive of letters, diaries, and other research. The result, a thought-provoking work made up of comics suffused in a gentle mix of aquamarine watercolors, is equal parts joyful and ruminative. (Think: \u003cem>Alice in Wonderland \u003c/em>meets \u003cem>The Lives of the Poets \u003c/em>meets \u003cem>Krazy Kat.\u003c/em>) The full subtitle to the book — \u003cem>How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe\u003c/em> — signals the lavish whimsy that goes a long way towards making this such a delightful, inspiring read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1482px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2.png\" alt=\"An illustration of a small figure standing at a huge window frame where there is the enormous bearded face of a man talking.\" width=\"1482\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2.png 1482w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2-800x1080.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2-1020x1377.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2-160x216.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2-768x1036.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2-1138x1536.png 1138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1482px) 100vw, 1482px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turns out that Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka lived in Prague at the same time and had the same circle of friends. \u003ccite>(Ken Krimstein/Bloomsbury Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout, cartoon-Einstein sports his characteristic pipe alongside a signature frizzy head of hair. But it’s his obsessive ruminations that perhaps most effectively signal what has become Einstein-the-character, a culmination of all the gossip, public appearances, private words, and first-hand accounts of one of the best-known scientists to have ever lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13963016']Krimstein pairs Einstein’s story with that of Franz Kafka, who was 28, virtually unpublished, and living with his parents in a house in Prague when Einstein arrived for his short but impactful stay. What binds the two together, in addition to an alleged one-time meeting at a weekly salon, is a complementary preoccupation with getting at the truth — “the true truth” — against all odds, and against many other people’s better judgements. For both, a journey to find this truth, whether in science or literature, is one that will sometimes alienate as painfully as it may ultimately bind them to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Einstein’s time in Prague, a time in which he works out his theory of relativity, Kafka will have his own breakthrough. In one long feverish night he will pen the short story, most often known in English as “The Judgment,” which will launch an unparalleled writing career forever transforming art and literature. Like Einstein’s completed theory of relativity, Kafka, too, will offer the world a new way of thinking. It’s a way of thinking that, our narrator assures us, “we’re all still struggling to catch up to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963409\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1441px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963409\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein.png\" alt=\"A page of watercolored panels depicting Albert Einstein gazing pensively out of a window.\" width=\"1441\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein.png 1441w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-800x1110.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-1020x1416.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-160x222.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-768x1066.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-1107x1536.png 1107w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1441px) 100vw, 1441px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A moment from ‘Einstein in Kafkaland.’ \u003ccite>(Ken Krimstein/Bloomsbury Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite his title, Krimstein centers his book unevenly, focusing mainly on Einstein, and taking us step by step through the meditations that lead to his discovery. 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He depicts Einstein debating with his foe, Max Abraham; taking fantastical trips into a four-dimensional world with Euclid; and walking and talking with Austrian physicist, and dear friend, Paul Ehrenfest. And he exposes, too, scenes of the future Nobel Prize winner in the bath, trying to kill off bedbugs; or engaging with his young children, and wife, in Gedankenexperiments (thought experiments), to help him think through the problems that continually occupy him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962965']At its heart, \u003cem>Einstein in Kafkaland \u003c/em>is the story of ordinary genius. It unwraps the ways in which genius so often arises out of ordinary circumstances. Perhaps even more compellingly, the book tracks how unimaginable discoveries develop following exchanges with others — friends and family, colleagues and nemeses, neighbors and role models. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Dungeons & Dragons\u003c/em> turns 50 this year. The tabletop role playing game (TTRPG) has gone through a slew of revised editions, expansions and hack ‘n’ slay imitators, weathered a Satanic panic or two, seen itself replaced in the hearts and minds of the nation’s nerds by games like \u003cem>Magic: The Gathering\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Pokemon\u003c/em>, only to experience a bold popular resurgence in recent years, thanks in no small part to so-called Actual Play TTRPG podcasts and web series like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/c/criticalrole\">\u003cem>\u003cu>Critical Role\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/dimension20show\">\u003cem>\u003cu>Dimension 20\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/adventure-zone/\">\u003cem>\u003cu>The Adventure Zone\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13960471']In other words: As a pop culture phenomenon, it’s been hacked, but it still slays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I played my first game of D&D in 1978, just four years after its launch. I was 10 years old; it was summer. My friend down the street invited me over to his house, which usually meant forcing me to play catch with him in his backyard (read: He’d whip a baseball at my face, I’d flinch and let it bounce off me, I’d pick it up and toss it back so it landed in the grass 3 feet in front of him with a woeful thud; repeat until dinner time). On this occasion, to my surprise and delight, we sat on his screened-in porch as he took out what I have since learned was the box of rulebooks and polyhedral dice known as the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Basic_Set\">\u003cem>\u003cu>Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game.png\" alt=\"A grainy photo of a miniature figures and two books with covers featuring demonic looking figures. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-800x612.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-1020x780.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-160x122.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-768x587.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-1536x1174.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-1920x1468.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dungeons and Dragons game pieces, photographed in 1986. \u003ccite>(Joel Congdon/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I loved it from the jump, largely because everything about the game was so deeply indebted to my beloved Tolkien (Wizards! Halflings! Orcs! That titular dragon on the box cover, atop its pile of gold!). But it didn’t last; my neighbor started at a new school in the fall, and we lost touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_10178']I didn’t start playing my first real, sustained D&D campaign until three years later. My friend David wanted to try his hand at being a dungeon master and invited me and three other kids I didn’t know to form an adventuring party. When I arrived at that very first session in David’s bedroom, they’d already created their characters — a fighter, a thief and a ranger. They urged me to play as a cleric, who could hang back and heal them whenever they got beaten up. I liked the idea of staying out of the heat of battle and just being the guy who patched my friends up, earning their deep and abiding gratitude. Feeling needed, appreciated. It was tempting, I admit. But then destiny, in the form of my nascent queerness, intervened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David invited me to look through a thin paperback D&D supplemental rulebook called \u003cem>The Rogues Gallery\u003c/em> — page after page of ready-made characters I could choose from. I flipped through the clerics, but nothing grabbed me. But then, on page 12, just above the chart of a class of characters called Illusionists, I saw it. Him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1298px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963310\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-10.56.52%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A line drawing of a flamboyant and slender man appearing from mist surrounded by mythical creatures.\" width=\"1298\" height=\"976\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-10.56.52 PM.png 1298w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-10.56.52 PM-800x602.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-10.56.52 PM-1020x767.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-10.56.52 PM-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-10.56.52 PM-768x577.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1298px) 100vw, 1298px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Illusionist in question from ‘Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: The Rogues Gallery,’ by Brian Blume with Dave Cook and Jean Wells. \u003ccite>(1980, TSR Games.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was a pencil sketch by illustrator Jeff Dee. A tall, thin male figure stands facing the viewer. In his right hand he holds a staff, while his left is open, palm up. He holds his arms slightly away from his body, and sets his shoulders at a rakish tilt — the resulting stance is somewhere between that of an insouciant shrug and a hearty “ta-DAHHH!” He is surrounded by a thick fog — the spell he is presumably casting — out of which leer several monstrous faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I liked that. But what I \u003cem>loved\u003c/em>, what moved me, what sealed the deal for my young, closeted, queer self, was his outfit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thigh boots, for one thing. I mean, what was I, made of \u003cem>stone\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, scandalously tight pants set off by a belt and dagger. And clinging to every ridge of his slim, muscular torso, a sleeveless tunic — a tank-top, basically — that still somehow managed to boast kicky shoulder pads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13960838']This is the important bit, the part you must understand: I’m not just talking thin, epaulet-like shoulder bumps. No, these were dramatic, flared, Ming the Merciless meets Julia Sugarbaker \u003cem>shoulder pads\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other stuff — the parted-down-the-middle blowout, the cheekbones, the diadem, the big chunky necklace? Icing on the cake. Superfluous. I’m self-aware enough to know that it was that tank top with shoulder pads that did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to be an Illusionist,” I said, firmly, which caused my fellow players to roll their eyes and mutter the first of what would turn out to be a sustained pattern of homophobic slurs in my general direction. I didn’t, and still don’t, care. I was fierce, and I was \u003cem>fabulous\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I fell hard for the game, then. I subscribed to \u003cem>Dragon \u003c/em>magazine, and regularly pestered my mom to schlep me to \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Dragon%27s+lair%22+%22independence+mall%22&rlz=1C1GCEJ_enUS1083US1083&oq=%22Dragon%27s+lair%22+%22independence+mall%22&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIHCAUQIRigATIHCAYQIRirAtIBCTEyOTI5ajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:7e8f5c94,vid:KnSlDFn3Zxg,st:0\">\u003cu>Dragon’s Lair, in a sad strip mall just north of Wilmington, Del.\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, where I dutifully bought more rulebooks, more dice, more dungeon modules and a steady stream of lead miniatures that I painted very, very, \u003cem>very \u003c/em>badly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t easy. Just as I was entering my heedless, full-bore devotion to the game, the Philly paper ran an article in its Sunday magazine which cited “experts” about the game’s purported Satanic roots. An article that, the following Sunday, caused the sweet, kindly pastor at our sleepy suburban Grove United Methodist Church to launch into what was (for him, anyway) a fire-and-brimstone sermon decrying the game. About the same time, novelist Rona Jaffe published \u003cem>Mazes & Monsters\u003c/em>, an extended bout of literary hand-wringing over the game’s supposed deleterious effect on the youth of America, which was promptly made into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX5ClJ1Y1ik\">\u003cu>profoundly cheesy, absolute hoot-and-a-half of a TV movie\u003c/u>\u003c/a> starring a young Tom Hanks as a dude who suffers a psychotic break attributed to the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd.png\" alt=\"A newspaper cover featuring a fire-breathing dragon with wings.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd.png 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd-800x1000.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd-1020x1275.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd-160x200.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd-768x960.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd-1229x1536.png 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ article from July 1981 included psychologists fretting that players used it to escape reality, and religious figures who warned that the game was a work of Satan. \u003ccite>(Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine/ via Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the handful of years I played D&D in earnest, back then, I had to talk my parents off the ledge every time some new magazine article or \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yShqF1YSfDs\">\u003cem>\u003cu>60 Minutes\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003cu> segment\u003c/u>\u003c/a> came out spotlighting the entirely manufactured “controversy” around the game. It was exhausting. But I kept at it; I had to. I \u003cem>needed \u003c/em>to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962783']Because there was this one time? When my friends and I were being rushed by a phalanx of orcs, and I cast an illusion of a deep pit on the ground in front of us, filled with bubbling acid and metal spikes, and the orcs failed their saving throws and believed they fell into said illusory pit, and impaled themselves on the illusory spikes, and dissolved in the illusory acid and thus died actual deaths?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That? That was cool. And, for just those few fleeting seconds, down there in the deepest, most tortured throes of my closeted, excruciatingly awkward puberty, so was I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ta-dah.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece also appeared in NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\">\u003cem>Sign up for the newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, plus get weekly recommendations about what’s making us happy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3xNgYt9\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3ELR3n6\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In other words: As a pop culture phenomenon, it’s been hacked, but it still slays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I played my first game of D&D in 1978, just four years after its launch. I was 10 years old; it was summer. My friend down the street invited me over to his house, which usually meant forcing me to play catch with him in his backyard (read: He’d whip a baseball at my face, I’d flinch and let it bounce off me, I’d pick it up and toss it back so it landed in the grass 3 feet in front of him with a woeful thud; repeat until dinner time). On this occasion, to my surprise and delight, we sat on his screened-in porch as he took out what I have since learned was the box of rulebooks and polyhedral dice known as the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Basic_Set\">\u003cem>\u003cu>Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game.png\" alt=\"A grainy photo of a miniature figures and two books with covers featuring demonic looking figures. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-800x612.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-1020x780.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-160x122.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-768x587.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-1536x1174.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-1920x1468.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dungeons and Dragons game pieces, photographed in 1986. \u003ccite>(Joel Congdon/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I loved it from the jump, largely because everything about the game was so deeply indebted to my beloved Tolkien (Wizards! Halflings! Orcs! That titular dragon on the box cover, atop its pile of gold!). But it didn’t last; my neighbor started at a new school in the fall, and we lost touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Late night bands often embody and amplify the tone of a show — Johnny Carson’s \u003cem>Tonight Show\u003c/em> had a rollicking, old school big band, while Jimmy Fallon’s version has the urbane cool of rap/soul/funk stars The Roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that 8G joins the ranks of bands of the past, I’m reflecting on more late night bands that have — or will one day — go down in history. Here’s a list of the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>#1: The World’s Most Dangerous Band/CBS Orchestra\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Late Night with David Letterman (NBC) and The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUPSilcJFrQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This group was squarely in my generation — a band I was hooked on from their early days with Letterman on NBC in the mid 1980s, right up until his retirement on CBS in 2015. It began as a hip four piece packed with the best session musicians in New York, including drummer Steve Jordan (now with the Rolling Stones), bassist Will Lee and often-barefoot guitarist Hiram Bullock, led by keyboardist and \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> alum Paul Shaffer. Their stripped-down, funky sound was a welcome change from Carson’s massive, more traditional jazz band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the group evolved into a much larger unit with two guitar players and a horn section; P-Funk keyboard legend Bernie Worrell even played with them for a time. And the band was capable of everything from skin-tight backing of James Brown to including guest musicians like David Sanborn and trading quips with Letterman himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I watched them all the time … and just felt like they were on another level from what I was doing,” Janney said. “Also, they seemed to be having the best f—ing time. 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The band, which Batiste had put together with classmates from Julliard well before they landed on Colbert‘s show, effortlessly moved from jazz and R&B to pop and even classical — with a cool way of playing while walking through the audience that recalled the Second Line marching bands from Batiste’s native New Orleans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>#5: David Sanborn and friends\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sunday Night/Night Music (NBC)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwgOUzodS6E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive produced by \u003cem>SNL \u003c/em>showrunner Lorne Michaels, this show was an offbeat experiment which aired for two seasons beginning in 1988, featuring the late jazz saxophonist Sanborn and co-host Jools Holland with a band of ace backing musicians, performing with a wide array of different artists in one show. 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"content": "\u003cp>There’s been a lot of wishful thinking lately about who Taylor Swift might endorse for President.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot make this up!” said TikToker Johnny Palmadessa in one of the many hopeful — if not fact-based — social media videos posted recently. “Taylor Swift is getting ready to endorse Kamala Harris!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@johnnypalmadessa/video/7400430047162666282\" data-video-id=\"7400430047162666282\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@johnnypalmadessa\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@johnnypalmadessa?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@johnnypalmadessa\u003c/a> Taylor Swift might be endorsing Kamala Harris soon! She picked this photo for a reason. \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#KamalaHarris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"taylorswift\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/taylorswift?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TaylorSwift\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"legal\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/legal?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Legal\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"law\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/law?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Law\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"donaldtrump\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/donaldtrump?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DonaldTrump\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Johnny Palmadessa\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7400429951364729643?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – Johnny Palmadessa\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112984762512136574\">reposted an AI-generated image\u003c/a> of the pop star wearing an Uncle Sam outfit, in which he accepted her seeming endorsement of his campaign. The post appeared on the politician’s Truth Social network earlier this week. (He’s since \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Grady_Trimble/status/1826405658172031219\">denied \u003c/a>he knows anything about the images.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, Swift has not endorsed Trump or any other candidate in this election cycle so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/606x888+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa9%2Fa7%2Fcd83044743528cce61c49c6484d9%2Fscreenshot-2024-08-22-at-09-26-18.png\" alt=\"Donald Trump reposted this AI-generated image of Taylor Swift on social media.\">\u003cfigcaption>Donald Trump reposted this AI-generated image of Taylor Swift on social media. \u003ccite> (Truth Social)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But other celebrities have already come out in support of Harris and Trump in the run-up to the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best chance we have to give our babies a better life is to elect Donald Trump President of the United States,” said Amber Rose in a speech at the Republican National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Megan Thee Stallion shared her enthusiasm for Kamala Harris in a performance at a recent rally. “We’re about to make history with the first female president!” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why celebrity endorsements matter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Celebrity endorsements are as much a thing in politics as they are in consumer products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11999092']“Celebrities draw increased engagement, increased attention, and they increase conversation,” said Ashley Spillane, the author of a \u003ca href=\"https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/celebrities-strengthening-our-culture-of-democracy/\">new study\u003c/a> from Harvard’s Kennedy School on celebrity engagement in politics — focusing on civic participation. “And no matter the political party or the candidate, there is a real hunger to be affiliated with the celebrities that can do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spillane said her research shows you don’t have to be a star as big as Swift to influence voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the other folks with a smaller base were having just as significant an impact because they have an incredibly engaged base of support as well,” she said.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a long history of big names throwing their weight behind White House hopefuls. It extends back to 1920 when film stars Mary Pickford and Al Jolson endorsed Warren G. Harding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Sinatra \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBeIZN8pYK8\">explained his support\u003c/a> of future president Ronald Reagan at a fundraising event in Boston in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why do I support Governor Reagan?” Sinatra said. “Because I think he’s the proper man to be President of the United States. 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It showed the media star was responsible for around one million additional votes for the 44th president.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Celebrity endorsements can be tricky\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But other research tells a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, a \u003ca href=\"https://news.ncsu.edu/2010/04/wmscobbcelebrity/\">2010 report\u003c/a> from North Carolina State University found celebrity endorsements by George Clooney and Angelina Jolie did not help political candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And having famous people cheerleading for your political campaign isn’t foolproof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could backfire,” said Wharton School of Business professor of neuroscience, psychology, and marketing Michael Platt, the author of a \u003ca href=\"https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/the-marketing-psychology-behind-celebrity-endorsements/\">2023 study\u003c/a> on celebrity endorsement. “Maybe it’s a celebrity that you don’t like or is not aligned with you politically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the potential problem of the celebrity being \u003cem>too\u003c/em> famous. Platt calls this the “Vampire Effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They suck up all our attention, right?” he said. “Which means there’s less attention, less processing, that’s given to the candidate that you might be endorsing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The rise of fake AI celebrity endorsements\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The rise of social media and deep-fakes created by artificial intelligence, such as those of Swift falsely appearing to endorse Trump, is also an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962624']“There have been manipulated celebrity photographs since the beginning of photography, certainly, but the rampant use of AI and its ubiquity are what is new,” said Douglas Mirell, an entertainment lawyer with the Los Angeles firm Greenberg Glusker who works to curb unauthorized uses of AI. “It is so pervasive and so potentially manipulable, that people can’t tell what’s true and what’s not true. 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No fool, Fanny recognized Sargent’s depiction as yet another attempt by an admirer of her husband’s to diminish her. “I am but a cipher under the shadow,” she complained to Sargent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camille Peri’s lively and substantive dual biography of the Stevensons, called \u003cem>A Wilder Shore\u003c/em>, whisks those obscuring draperies off Fanny and restores her to full personhood. But, Peri aims for something even more ambitious than a feminist recovery of a mostly forgotten wife of a famous writer. 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Speaking for myself, after reading \u003cem>A Wilder Shore\u003c/em>, I’m inspired to do two things: I want to reread Robert Louis Stevenson’s three great works of fiction: \u003cem>Treasure Island\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Kidnapped\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2010/01/01/272028836/excerpt-the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde\">\u003cem>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>And, I want to schedule a séance with Fanny to get some one-on-one instruction on how to live more fearlessly as a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peri opens \u003cem>A Wilder Shore \u003c/em>with a scene that could have been written by Louis but, instead, was lived by Fanny: In the summer of 1875, she and her three children and their governess rushed aboard a train in San Francisco to cross the country and catch a ship in New York harbor that would carry them to Belgium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962625']This was no pleasure trip: To reach their destination the little band rode a wagon through floodwaters, but Fanny was desperate to escape her humiliating marriage to a prospector who lived openly with his mistress. With the little money she’d earned by sewing, Fanny planned to enroll herself and her teenaged daughter in art school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtling into the unknown put the 36-year-old, still-married mother of three in the orbit of Robert Louis Stevenson — a sickly Scottish writer who was 10 years her junior. It was love at first sight, at least for Louis. Peri says that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>Fanny likely saw their affair as something that could not last. For him, though, sexual intimacy with Fanny was not simply a romp with an older woman. It cemented his emotional commitment to her — a kind of role reversal that is striking for a Victorian man.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Peri details how the bohemian relationship that evolved between Fanny and Louis included other such gender role reversals: The frail “Louis was what the Scots call a “handless” man,” she writes. During the couple’s honeymoon spent squatting in an abandoned silver mine in California, it was Fanny who “out of scraps of wood and packing crates … nailed together furniture.” Of course, the Stevensons’ union caused dismay among Louis’ friends who disparaged Fanny for her age, her American-ness, her short hair and cigarette smoking, and, most virulently, her olive skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962885']As convincing as she is about the progressive relationship between the Stevensons, Peri is also clear-eyed about the fact that Fanny still got the somewhat shorter end of the stick. While Louis respected Fanny as his best critic, he also assumed she would handle the mundane household routine and provide nursing care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louis’ undiagnosed illness — he chronically coughed up blood — did have the “upside” of broadening the couple’s life through travel in search of a healthier climate. 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"content": "\u003cp>Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to online uproar factory we go. The first teaser trailer for the upcoming live-action remake of \u003cem>Disney’s\u003c/em> \u003cem>Snow White\u003c/em> is here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starring Rachel Zegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, the pair introduced the highly anticipated teaser at Disney’s D23 Expo Friday evening, with a release scheduled for March 21, 2025. 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It may be a tough sell for Disney fans and other extremely online critics, whose scrutiny of the latest adaptation began years before the trailer dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a brief overview of their grievances, explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Snow White who’s not white enough\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When news broke in 2021 that Zegler, who had her breakout role as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907124/steven-spielbergs-west-side-story-will-make-you-believe-in-movies-again\">\u003cem>West Side Story \u003c/em>\u003c/a>remake, would be playing the titular character, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194702228/rachel-zegler-snow-white-disney-remake\">provoked\u003c/a> a string of racist comments on social media. People questioned why an actress of Latin descent would be playing a character with “skin white as snow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13919105']Zegler, who is of Polish-Colombian background, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rachelzegler/status/1680225020772057088\">responded to the comments on X\u003c/a> by saying she didn’t want to be dragged into the “nonsensical discourse”about her casting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really, truly do not want to see it,” Zegler wrote in a post that included photos of her as a child dressed as a princess. “I hope every child knows they can be a princess no matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A reimagination deemed too “woke” by some critics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RVg3yetTE4\">interview with \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2022, Zegler and Gadot talked about how the story of \u003cem>Snow White \u003c/em>was being adapted with a “modern edge” — one that would nix the part about Snow White being saved by a prince.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s the proactive one,” Gadot said. “She’s the one who sets the terms. It’s [these factors] that make it so relevant to today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s not going to be dreaming about true love. She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be, and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true,” Zegler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_112736']In another interview, Zegler referred to the prince as a “stalker” and said the messaging would be updated to reference a woman’s power in the modern world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cartoon was made 85 years ago, and therefore it’s extremely dated when it comes to ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman is fit for in the world,” Zegler said. “So, when we came to reimagining the actual role of Snow White, it became about the ‘fairest of them all’ meaning who is the most just and who can become a fantastic leader, and the reality is Snow White has to learn a lot of lessons about coming in to her own power before she can come into power over a kingdom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comments provoked a wave of backlash on social media, notably from “anti-woke” accounts and from several conservative media outlets including the Daily Wire, which responded by saying it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailywire.com/news/brett-cooper-drops-new-details-about-bentkeys-snow-white-and-the-evil-queen\">producing its own version of the classic\u003c/a> that would be written “in line with the values in which it was written.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1690588204603215872\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like TikTok user @reubenwoodall, criticized Disney’s attempt to turn Snow White into a “girl boss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of Snow White’s fairytale isn’t that she’s going to try and become a leader,” Woodall said in a video that amassed more than 1.3 million likes. “She’s not supposed to be this girl boss, leader, queen, feminist icon. 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