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NYC: Come To Our WNBA Comedy Show On May 16

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Live Event

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Rachelle Hampton

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Brandy Jensen

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David Roth

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Alex Sujong Laughlin

A woman walks in front of a mural depicting writer Octavia Butler in Nairobi, Kenya. The Defector Reads A Book badge is at upper right.

A woman walks in front of a mural depicting writer Octavia Butl

Defector Reads A Book

Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Parable Of The Sower’ Confronts What Comes After The End

A farmer prepares seeds for planting on the agricultural land as farmers who harvested crops in the summer replanted wheat, barley and canola seeds. Honestly kind of hard to do a visual that matches the content of The Parable Of The Sower, the cover of which is superimposed on the seed image at upper right.

19 year old twin brothers, who are farmers in Istanbul, cultivate a field of 5 thousand acres

Defector Reads A Book Is Going To Reap What Octavia Butler Sowed

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Maitreyi Anantharaman

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Giri Nathan

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Patrick Redford

Firefighters wash up after fighting the O'Brien Creek fire. Lolo national Forest, Montana, August 21, 1940.

Firefighters Wash Up After Forest Fire

Racing With Mortality In Norman Maclean’s ‘Young Men And Fire’

Forest Firefighters Entering Plane (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Forest Firefighters Entering Plane

Defector Reads A Book Is Leaping Toward The Fire

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Kelsey McKinney

Women's world chess champion, Vera Menchik (1916 - 1944, left) and Sonia Graf (1908 - 1965) competing in the British Chess Federation Major Open in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK, 11th July 1935. Menchik finished the tournament in third place with Graf in seventh. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Menchik Vs Graf

Sit Down Across The Board With Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’

A young girl lying on a carpet while reading a book.

Defector Reads A Book Is Figuring Out What Sally Rooney’s Deal Is This Fall

Northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), male, on tree stump, Toledo province, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

DRAB:H Is For Defector Reads A Bird: ‘H Is For Hawk’

A photographer of author James Baldwin smoking a cigarette.

James Baldwin Sitting Smoking A Cigarette

Come And Sit By ‘The Fire Next Time’ With Defector Reads A Book


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Sabrina Imbler

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Barry Petchesky

Whale stranded at Winterton, 1857. 'This fine specimen of the whale tribe was driven ashore at Winterton by the gales which visited the coast of Norfolk...When the whale found himself upon land he roared loudly, and he struggled most lustily to regain the deep...The colour of the outer coat is dark brown on the back, vanishing off towards the body of a bluish grey. The body is white; also about two feet of the nose and baleen is white; the rest of the outer part is black. We understand that the skin, head, and tail were removed from the carcase for exhibition. The whale is stated to weigh about 25 tons'. From &quot;Illustrated London News&quot;, 1857.

Whale Stranded At Winterton

From Hell’s Heart We Blog At Thee: Let’s Chat About ‘Moby-Dick’

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Shoppers in Paris flock to buy the new edition of the grammar book 'Grammaire de l'Academie Francaise', 1932.

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Year In Review

The Best Things We Read In 2023

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