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Culture Shift is a weekly newsletter curated by the HuffPost Culture writers and editors.

This week we're talking about all the books you need to read this summer, the "Magic Mountains" hiding in a desert, artists fighting gentrification, queer sex scenes in comics, proper grammar in emails, and the project bringing black history to ballet.

22 Summer 2016 Books You Won't Want To Miss

This summer, in addition to the obvious 2016 warm-weather pastime of drinking watermelon water while listening to "Lemonade," we're looking forward to reading new books! Because, although we are big proponents of couch lounging, reading in the grass while using a book to shield your eyes from the sun has its particular joys.

Thankfully, there're a lot to choose from. It may not be the summer of "the next next 'Gone Girl,'" but there's a meticulously wrought new thriller out in June, one that examines a violently broken relationship between sisters. There's also a wry adaptation of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," a screwball story set in 2052, and a new slate of advice columns from Heather Havrilesky, aka Ask Polly. Choose wisely, dear readers. (Read more here)

Just Outside Las Vegas, 'Magic Mountains' Brighten Up The Desert Expanse

Located in the Nevada desert, about a half an hour from downtown Las Vegas, seven Day-Glo rock towers sit in total isolation, their colorful physiques resembling children's toys on a colossal scale. Think the love child of Jeff Koons' "Play-Doh" and Michael Heizer's "Levitated Mass."

The placement of the installation, which has been in the making for five years, is no coincidence. Located in conversation with Sin City, the sculptures exist at the nexus of nature and artifice, art and entertainment, leisure and reverie. "The site is magical," artist Rondinone told The Las Vegas Review Journal. "It's historical. It's charged." (Read more here)

What Every Artist Needs To Know About Fighting Gentrification

Artists don't have to be "pawns" in neighborhood gentrification and displacement — instead, they can fight it, and be a force to build more inclusive and equitable cities. (Read more here)

Comic Artist Explains How To Draw A Steamy Queer Sex Scene

Sarah Winifred Searle is a New England-born cartoonist, writer, illustrator and graphic designer bringing women's stories into graphic and gripping forms. Rather than focusing on violence or war or stealing cars, Searle's work revolves around relationships, often but not always romantic ones. What's more, these relationships are frequently non-normative, in that they include queer women, people of color, sexual women, diverse body types and — get this — real, complex emotions.

For example, one of Searle's recent comics, titled "Sparks," tells the tale of two women who fall in love in Edwardian England while working toward financial freedom. The artist deftly balances stimulating flirtation and heartwarming romance with political explorations of early feminism and 20th-century colonialism. (Read more here)

Bad News, Language Pedants: Poll Shows Most People Are Cool With Improper Grammar

Most people don't mind it if you use so-called improper grammar in text messages and emails, a new YouGov poll conducted with The Huffington Post shows.

Only 12 percent of the poll's 1,000 respondents answered that improper grammar (punctuation, capitalization, etc.) in a text message would bother them "A lot," while 24 percent responded "Somewhat," 29 percent responded "Not very much," 30 percent responded "Not at all," and five percent responded "Not sure." These findings were fairly consistent across age, race, income, and American region. Notably, there was a difference between men and women's grammar preferences; women were six percent more likely to respond that improper text grammar bothers them "A lot." (Read more here)

The Black Iris Project Is Exploring Black History Through Dance

Choreographer Jeremy McQueen wanted to create "a ballet collaborative and education vehicle which creates new, relevant classical ballet works that celebrate diversity and black history." (Read more here)

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