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Just Say No to a Boring Bookshelf. Here Are 14 Extraordinary Bookshelves.

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“For bookworms – or anybody who appreciates great design – few things are as beautiful, or as envy-inducing, as a big, gorgeous library. (Raise your hand if you’re still waiting for somebody to declare their love for you by giving you a library à la Beauty and the Beast.”

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Homemade Mac and Cheese

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“Cream Cheese Frosting II This cream cheese frosting is perfecting for icing pumpkin bread, carrot cake, chocolate cake, and cookies.”

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Bob Costas To Muhammad Ali–“Well Actually…”

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Black Journalists and the Racist Mountain

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“It’s not what the wider world says about black writers that should concern them, so much as what they say about themselves. Howard French has an interesting piece in The Guardian tackling  “the enduring whiteness of American media.” French’s claim is two-fold: 1.”

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Dylann Roof and the Death Penalty

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“A year after Obama saluted the families for their spirit of forgiveness, his administration seeks the death penalty for the Charleston shooter. On Tuesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced she would seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof.”

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Conceptualizing the Black Panther – The Atlantic

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The Atlantic

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“Four Atlantic writers discuss the newest installment in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. Captain America: Civil War is here—an ambitious, sprawling epic featuring a dozen superheroes doing battle over the question of whether the United Nations should start regulating their activities.”

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Homecomings

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“Everyone wants some place to retreat, to collapse, to be at home—but you can’t always go home again. In the summer of 2001, my family and I moved into the Prospect-Lefferts Garden neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. I was 25. My partner was 24. Our son was 11 months.”

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Last Futures by Douglas Murphy review – utopian architecture, from space colonies to ziggurats

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“How the shining architectural optimism of the 1960s and 70s has ultimately produced buildings such as supermarkets, open-plan offices and other spaces of control 04.29 EST Last modified on Friday 15 January 2016 19.”

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Bohemians, Bauhaus and bionauts: the utopian dreams that became architectural nightmares

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“The theme of the inaugural London Design Biennale is Utopia to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s classic. Director Christopher Turner remembers the architects on a mission to make the world a better place”