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Christian Science Monitor - Entertainment

From the Magazine - October's best books boast indelible characters - Fascinating people – both real and fictitious – abound in our fall roundup. By - Monitor reviewers - / 6 min

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Books -- 'Music Against the Night' plays like a major literary composition -- Heller McAlpin

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From the Magazine -- A blessed childhood – without indoor plumbing -- Danny Heitman

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From the Magazine -- Her onstage singing voice advanced offstage racial reform -- Barbara Spindel

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From the Magazine -- Yiyun Li reveals life lessons in her new symphonic novel

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Arts -- In Boston, an artist invites neighbors to speak for the trees

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From the Magazine -- A bestselling classicist embarks on a fresh odyssey

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From the Magazine -- Why Howard Zinn became a 'people's historian'

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Books -- How a British bookstore has extended its shelf life

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From the Magazine -- At the bookend of summer, here are September's best reads

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From the Magazine -- This saxophonist's jazz offers a call and response for Africa

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From the Magazine -- In Canada, a storied travel writer finds a kind of homecoming

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From the Magazine -- A writer chases butterflies, collects life lessons

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Europe -- After a biopic's success, the French ask: Where's our modern de Gaulle?

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Books -- Harry Belafonte, a 'radical before it was chic,' sang for justice

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Books -- How to maintain 'an informed citizenry' in the age of AI

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Can Democrats win back Christian voters? A Kansas pastor charts a faith-based campaign. Kansas hasn't elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in nearly 100 years. But megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton is running a surprisingly competitive race against GOP Sen. Roger Marshall. By - Sophie Hills - / 7 min

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