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TODAY: In 1929, Ursula K. Le Guin is born.

American classrooms are racially segregated, and AI is only making it worse . | Lit Hub Politics

Nina Chayka searches for the rarest Nabokov paperbacks in America : “Ardis lives on less through its corporate afterlife and more through the people still hunting it down.” | Lit Hub Bookstores

“When we see the effect of a film on their faces, we know that we have succeeded.” How two sisters built a movie theater for the children of Gaza . | Lit Hub Film

On Irish legend’s dangerously seductive fairies , the beguiling aes sidhe. | Lit Hub History

How Truong Tran channels the violence of white supremacy into art and metaphor : “Desire is complicated and fraught with shame. Anger is deep and, thus far, endless.” | Lit Hub Art

Paul Mason traces how the Communist Party of China became the most successful political party in the world . | Lit Hub Politics

“We drove up the mountain at night. / Something was wrong.…