Segregation

Carl H. Nightingale's eye-opening work of history examines how the use of urban division to reinforce economic disparity was transformed by colonialism and became race-based segregation. The author then imagines a model for the integrated cities of the future in a book that seeks to understand and ameliorate inequality.

May 21: The musical smash hit Gypsy opened on Broadway on this day in 1959. The bestseller upon which the show is based, Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir Gypsy, told her life as a rags-to-naked success story, and added to…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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