'Under the Skin' shows how COVID exposed racial disparities in healthcare

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B.J. Novak on 'The Little Book with No Pictures' and making kids laugh

Writer and The Office star B.J. Novak says that when his friends started having kids, he would connect with their children by reading books aloud. He began to pay attention to what would make kids laugh and eventually “printed and glue-sticked and paper-clipped” his own book that ...  Show more

Laleh Khadivi explores mother-daughter relationships in 'Female Life on Planet Earth'

It’s been almost one year since Heti, the main character of Laleh Khadivi’s Female Life on Planet Earth, lost her mother. But when details from her mother’s secret past resurface, Heti must grapple with what it means to know someone, womanhood and how to grieve parts of her mothe ...  Show more

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