Month: March 2024

A little black box appears on health care and employment forms, census surveys and other official documents, requiring respondents to confine their racial identity to a single space that allows no fine distinctions. As Henry Louis Gates Jr. points out in his eloquent and powerful The Black Box: Writing the Race, such boxes are metaphors
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Jeff Lynne’s ELO, the modern incarnation of Jeff Lynne and his band Electric Light Orchestra, have announced a farewell tour. Dubbed The Over and Out Tour, the shows will take place across North America this fall, beginning on August 24 in Palm Desert, California and lasting on through to October 25 when the band will
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A New York women’s roller derby team is suing a county executive over an ordinance that forbids teams with transgender athletes from using local facilities. Meanwhile, former Olympic decathlete Caitlyn Jenner is rushing to the man’s defense. Despite warnings from State Attorney General Letitia James, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has doubled down on his
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The world hasn’t seen a theatrical adaptation of one of Dr. Seuss’ stories since since the animated movie The Grinch put a new spin on the Christmas buzzkill in 2018, nearly 20 years since Jim Carrey played the role in live-action (and no, the comedic actor isn’t returning for a Grinch sequel). But we’re finally
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In her first novel since her National Book Award-longlisted debut, The Leavers, Lisa Ko explores memory, art, technology and consumption through the eyes of three childhood best friends. Jackie, Ellen and Giselle meet at Chinese school in suburban New Jersey in the 1980s. Though they come from different backgrounds and have divergent interests, they’re drawn
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