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John Maythams Book Reviews: 19 February 2021 19 February 2021 5:02 PM books Johns 3 book picks this week. 1. Thriller: Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman, is the latest Alex Delaware thriller, he helps his friend Detective Milo Sturgis solve a cold case. 2. Novel: Outlawed by Anna North, fits within a genre termed the feminist western, is an alternative history of a town where fertility is an issue, and where a western outlaw gang is reimagined with barren women or non-bin...

Rethinking Policy for Black America Systemic racism is baked into every aspect of American life. These policies can help dismantle inequities in education, housing, health, policing, and more. Christina Animashaun/Vox Last summer, millions of Americans took to the streets across the country to protest the violence Black Americans have suffered at the hands of police. It sparked what has been called the largest civil rights movement of our time — one that saw worldwide demonstrations, new dem...

The Western genre is not the first that comes to mind when looking for literary fiction exploring femininity, gender, and identity. However, readers who pick up Anna North’s most recent literary release, “Outlawed” are in store for just that, along with intimate prose and fast-paced action. “In the year of our lord 1894, I became an outlaw. Like a lot of things, it didn’t happen all at once.” Such begins the riveting, action-packed tale of Ada. A reimagining of the...

Loh Leaving Bloomsbury Amid Restructuring By Jim Milliot | Bloomsbury has restructured the consumer division of Bloomsbury USA. Under the realignment, v-p and publishing director Cindy Loh, along with two other employees, will leave the publisher. Adrienne Vaughan, Bloomsbury USA executive director and chief operating officer, will assume the publishing director duties.With the restructuring, Loh’s direct editorial reports—Nancy Miller, associate publisher and editorial di...

The school reopening debate, explained in 600 words Vox.com 2/5/2021 German Lopez © Damien Meyer/AFP via Getty Images A public school classroom in Bruz, France, on May 12, 2020. If there’s one thing everyone seems to agree about during the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s that we have to eventually reopen schools for in-person teaching. Where there’s less agreement is what, exactly, is required to make that possible. Some of that disagreement bubbled up in the past few weeks, ...

Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. The number of active hate groups in the United States has fallen by about 10 percent in the past year. This isn’t necessarily good news. There were 838 active hate groups this year, compared to 940 in 2019, according to an annual report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The organization attributes the drop to the fact that these groups have become more diffuse and difficult to track, largely because...

The number of active hate groups is falling. But they’re getting harder to track. Vox.com 2/2/2021 © Zac Freeland/Vox; Getty Images The number of active hate groups in the United States has fallen by about 10 percent in the past year. This isn’t necessarily good news. There were 838 active hate groups this year, compared to 940 in 2019, according to an annual report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The organization attributes the drop to the fact that these groups have become...

Matt Damsker Special to USA TODAY Who wouldn’t relate to a child born in 1931 Berlin, a child who suffered lifelong hair loss after an allergic reaction to the whooping cough vaccine, who then crossed the Atlantic with his family to escape the Nazis – and within a couple of decades had reinvented himself as Mike Nichols? That’s the headlong narrative that begins Mark Harris’ new biography, “Mike Nichols: A Life” (Penguin Press, 688 pp., ★★★½ out of four), which charts the un...

Best books February 2021: The best books to read in February 2021 including Outlawed by Anna North, Shiver by Allie Reynolds and Girl A.

Amy Adams & A24 Teaming for TV Adaptation of Outlawed After properly exploring the world of television with the Emmy-nominated HBO adaptation of  Sharp Objects, Amy Adams is ready to return to the small screen behind the camera as she is teaming up with A24 to produce a series adaptation of  Written by Anna North and published earlier this month, the novel focused on a young midwife as she finds herself having to leave her life behind as she’s gone a year in her marriage without a pregnancy...