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Books | Book Reviews

A Medici princess rebels against her gilded cage

A voice that wouldn’t be ignored: Nellie Bly and the pursuit of truth

Speaking whale? Scientists are working on it.

Sound advice: Audiobooks to thrill, delight, and spread hope

Dive into the tropical fish nursery of the future

A glassy sweeper egg, moments from hatching, is seen through a microscope at Roger Williams University’s Wet Lab in Bristol, Rhode Island, where parent offspring are bred for the New England Aquarium's aquaculture program. The round bubble is an oil droplet, which is a nutritional source similar to an egg yolk.

Jim Thorpe ran track and played football. He tried to outrun racism.

Can ‘emotional outsourcing’ fix failing romantic relationships?

The dedicated women behind the world’s first general-purpose computer

The best thing since Babe Ruth? How Shohei Ohtani is making history.

A modern-day Huck Finn travels the Mississippi on a flatboat

Where the Nile began: The perilous journey to seek the river’s source

Mohsin Hamid’s novel ‘The Last White Man’ imagines a post-racial world

Survival tale ‘The Wall’ pits a woman against strange forces

How ‘Bull Durham’ went from long shot to movie classic

Singer, dancer, pilot, spy: Josephine Baker’s wartime career

Monitor's Best: Top 5

‘Goodnight Moon’: 75 years in the great green room

What China is – and isn’t – learning from military drills near Taiwan

Monitor Breakfast

Union rebound? AFL-CIO’s Shuler sees promise, long road ahead.

Presidential plantation shifts telling of history to let all voices rise

Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who changed the world

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