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'Beginner's Guide to America' and 5 other works that illuminate the US immigrant experience Written by Chantal Da Silva, CNN Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to. Imagine searching for "traces of Americanness" as an immigrant first arriving in the US, and four name tags seen in the airport stop you in your tracks. This was true for author Roya Hakakian, who was 19 when her Persian Jewish family fled Iran in the 1980s. In her new book "Beginner's Guide to America: For the Imm...

arts Updated 1st March 2021 Credit: Seacia Pavao/Netflix Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to. Fictional male antiheroes like television's crime patriarchs Tony Soprano and Walter White have reigned for some time, but the antiheroine has only more recently had the opportunity to rise up -- and become the cause of her own downfall. And while a "bad woman" may once have meant a period-piece protagonist who prioritized herself over finding a husba...

The art of processing our collective grief Updated 23rd February 2021 The art of processing our collective grief Written by Oscar Holland, CNN Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to. We have heard the phrase "grim milestone" so often in the past year that it now falls into the realm of journalistic cliché. Monday's news that the US has surpassed half a million Covid-19 deaths should not, however, be any less poignant for its morbid familiarity. These are the moments in which i...