Over the past year, the way we work out has done a total 180. You might’ve swapped your gym trips with at-home workouts, but sometimes those home-based workouts don’t feel as effective. If you had easy access to a Peloton and some gym equipment, you’d most definitely feel differently about …

Illustration: Angelica Alzona It’s Lit!It’s Lit!Where all things literary live at The Root Merry Christmas or whatever you’re celebrating this holiday weekend, Bibliophiles! Understandably, you may not be able to celebrate in person with loved ones this year, but we hope you’re still finding comfort and joy—perhaps in the pages …

Read: Who you’re reading when you read Haruki Murakami Beowulf: A New Translation, by Maria Dahvana Headley Farrar, Straus and Giroux I’ll admit to a moment—more than one, actually—of fogey-ish recoil as I stepped into the jabbingly familiar/unfamiliar world of Maria Dahvana Headley’s Beowulf. “Blinged-out”? “Hashtag: blessed”? “Beowulf gave zero …

Congress has passed a massive new COVID-19 relief package. Besides providing funding to help Americans, it also includes a law that bumps up the designation of illegal streaming from a misdemeanor to a felony.  Deadline describes the rule as “felony streaming” which could land someone in prison for as long as …

U.S. lawmakers on Thursday blocked attempts to alter a $2.3 trillion coronavirus aid and government spending package, rejecting President Donald Trump’s demand for extensive changes and leaving benefits for millions of Americans at risk. Democrats in the House of Representatives sought to increase direct payments to Americans included in the …

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FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX Uncanny Valley, by Anna Wiener Before she abandoned her ill-paid life in the publishing business for the San Francisco startup scene in 2013, Anna Wiener was a Brooklyn literary type, socially anxious and “affectedly analog” (owner of a record player she rarely used, dater of men …

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A Black doctor, after making a social media post complaining about being mistreated by hospital staff because she was Black, has died due to the coronavirus. According to CBS News, Dr. Susan Moore, who died on December 20, died due to complications from COVID-19 at an Indiana hospital. She passed …

Photo: Dr. Susan Moore/ Facebook An Indiana doctor has died from COVID-19 complications just weeks after reporting racial mistreatment on behalf of the hospital. The New York Times reports that Dr. Susan Moore, a Black doctor, was refused adequate care and gaslighted about her pain from her white male doctor …