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Balancing the Heart and Mind: Ryan Lee Wong’s Which Side Are You On

Which Side Are You On is a novel both of the heart and the mind: one that makes you think and question your perception of the world and your place in it, and feel deeply and fervently about what matters to you.

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

If you want to work at The Strand, you first have to pass a literature test. But don’t worry, if you’re among the dozens of applicants that fail, you still can…

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Eric Garner: A Rumpus Roundup

In July, unarmed black man Eric Garner died after he was placed in a chokehold by a white police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, on Staten Island, a suburban borough of New…

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House of Library Catalog Cards

The New York Public Library owns an absolutely peculiar collection: a 6000+ cards catalog of hand-typed children books reviews, written by librarians over the years. Lynn Lobash, NYPL reader services…

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Blogs

Bringing Attention To Drone Use

Animal New York interviews Essam, the artist behind a recent campaign aiming to start a conversation about the United States’ foreign, and what he believes to be imminent, domestic use…

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Frisked On the Way to School

“They asked us where we coming from, and they asked us to see ID. And we said ‘We 12, we don’t got ID.’” The NYPD stopped teenagers over 140,000 times…

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Politics

NYPD/CIA Scandalous Surveillance

“A months-long investigation by The Associated Press has revealed that the NYPD operates far outside its borders and targets ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties…

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Poet and Drunken Boat Editor Meets NYPD

Ravi Shankar, the founding editor of Drunken Boat, has an opinion piece in the Hartford Courant about a particularly terrible run-in with the NYPD in which he overheard his arresting…

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