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With the introduction of AI and constant Zoom meetings, our lives have become more fractured and isolated. In Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time, author Sheila Liming shows us what we have lost to the frenetic pace of digital life, and how to get it back.

A monument depicting Massasoit welcoming the Pilgrims was installed in Plymouth, MA in 1921 to mark the 300th anniversary of the landing of the English. Historian Jean O’Brien considers if the monument prompts us to reckon with the structural violence of settler colonialism, or further entrenches celebratory narratives of national origins.

Place, identity, and music have a complex relationship in hip hop culture. Langston Collin Wilkins returns to Houston, the city where he grew up, to explore how these elements interact to create a heritage that musicians negotiate in a variety of ways.

With the introduction of AI and constant Zoom meetings, our lives have become more fractured and isolated. In Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time, author Sheila Liming shows us what we have lost to the frenetic pace of digital life, and how to get it back.Vietnamese refugee and author Phuc Tran discusses the writing process for his memoir, Sigh, Gone, an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature, revealing redemption and connection in both books and punk rock.