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‘John Lewis: A Life’ Further Humanizes a Civil Rights Giant

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Why Silicon Valley Is the Soccer Capital of the Bay Area

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‘I Just Keep Talking’ Is a Refreshing and Wide-Ranging Essay Collection

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The Transgender Topless Dancer Who Went to War with Prison Authorities

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‘A Day in September’ Examines the Lessons From a Key Civil War Battle

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This is Genius: A New Graphic Novel Imagines Conversations Between Einstein and Kafka

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Quaid Looks the Part, but ‘Reagan’ Is More Glowing Commercial Than Biopic

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‘Kent State’ a Chilling Examination of 1970 Campus Shooting and Its Ramifications

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‘Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party’ Transports Readers to a World Changed by Fossils

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Celebrating the Fantastic Filth of San Francisco Punk in the ’70s and ’80s

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Remembering the Port Chicago Explosion, 80 Years Later

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The 12-Year-Old Girl-Gang Leader Who Outraged 1870s San Francisco

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