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Now on #PWBroadcast, the latest and iteration of Scientific Controversies: @JannaLevin in discussion w/ John Mather and Wendy Freedman about the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope and the new epoch of space exploration. Presented with @sciam. https://t.co/vwGvrUsE7C

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Upcoming Narrative Arts Resident @jordan_kisner's new book, "Thin Places," is out next week. Make sure your Monday is really good by attending the launch on 3/2 @booksaremagicbk https://t.co/ZcWHONW7fN

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On Women, a new collection of Susan Sontag’s seminal essays and interviews from the 1970s, gathers writing on aging, sexuality, equality, and fascism. In this excerpt on the question of liberation, Sontag posits androgyny as the future. https://t.co/UCT5M99enp

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Primatologist Frans de Waal is joined by actress & Green Porno creator Isabella Rossellini to discuss gender in the world of primates, animal behavior, and his most recent book, Different. https://t.co/HCHUzDYH3v

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4/15 BOOK LAUNCH: Hosted by @jazzedloon, @jellyschapiro will be in conversation with musician @butlerwillis to discuss his latest book, "Names of New York," which walks us through the names of every street, park, bridge, and borough in New York City. https://pioneerworks.org/programs/names-of-new-york/

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Are you a mid cook who still plans on hosting this holiday season? Don’t worry, says @s_ravindran: delve into the dark arts of culinary psychology with gastrophysics guru Charles Spence. https://t.co/BzkA6lsPhg

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To celebrate the release of “On Women”—a new collection of Susan Sontag’s seminal essays, out now from @fsgbooks—we hosted a conversation between Merve Emre (@mervatim), Doreen St. Felix (@dstfelix), and Sigrid Nunez to probe Sontag's refractive legacies.  https://t.co/mkLhq8u4vU

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Rivka Galchen on the inspiration behind her novel, EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR MOTHER IS A WITCH, and the “magic pebbles” found in the works of Hilma Af Klint and Agnes Martin—two artists that could nestle together magic and reason, orderliness and superstition. https://t.co/hIn4L7RYRz https://t.co/PQ0xfU05XZ

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On Women, a new collection of Susan Sontag’s seminal essays and interviews from the 1970s, gathers writing on aging, sexuality, equality, and fascism. In this excerpt on the question of liberation, Sontag posits androgyny as the future. https://t.co/UCT5M99enp

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Elif Batuman (@BananaKarenina) joined in conversation with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (@jellyschapiro) to discuss Batuman’s new book Either/Or, a novel that has given us new ways to think—and laugh—about how books shape our lives. Watch now on #PWBroadcast. https://t.co/4ZmJgHGHlP