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Sophie Gilbert discusses how the industry defined womanhood, sex, and power.

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Mental illness is no longer a taboo in Bangladesh — but are we healing, or simply importing a foreign language of suffering? In ‘Crazy Like Us,’ Ethan Watters shows what happens when psychiatry ...

When it comes to the one book our staffers would read over and over again, many of us turn to classics over buzzy new reads.

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Celebrate World Book Day with 3 books by El Paso authors, a memoir, a deep dive into punk history in El Paso and a mystery novel set in NYC.

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