The death of a 14-year-old black girl in a June 1969 police-involved shooting in Omaha ignited three days of intense unrest there. Decades later, the biographic play “Vivian’s Music, 1969” focuses not on the death of Vivian Strong, but on her life.

The poet and professor Kimiko Hahn wonders in her new volume what sort of error it is to depend on stuff, as hoarder or as collector. Is it a societal problem of overconsumption? Or is it simply a behavior observable by a scientist?

Salads are easy, don’t require much, if any, cooking, are a good way to use up leftovers, and kind of fulfill a lot of nutritional requirements in one tasty bowl.