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Mystery to Me livestream, discussing "Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and Everything Else," with Meredith Broussard, via Crowdcast. RSVP for link.

Isthmus Picks for May 20-27 features a return to live theater from American Players Theatre and Madison Shakespeare Company, virtual community leadership awards presentations from YWCA Madison and Madison College, and much more.

‘Shape’ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does. Credit.... “Girls can’t do Euclid: can they, sir?” “The Mill on the Floss” contains one of George Eliot’s sharpest caricatures in the figure of the foul schoolmaster Stelling. About girls, he reassures his young charges: “They’ve a great deal of superficial cleverness; but they couldn’t go far into anything.” Certainly not geometry, that maker of men. Stelling embodied British pedagogy at the time, with all its complacent sexism and emphasis on rote memorization. But as the empha...

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka (Bloomsbury) The Nobel laureate’s first novel in almost 50 years promises “murder, mayhem and no shortage of drama” in contemporary Nigeria. The Thursday Murder Club 2 by Richard Osman (Viking) Last year the Pointless co-host’s cosy crime debut set in a retirement home broke sales records; here comes the sequel. Waters of Salvation by Richard Coles (W&N) A new crime series from everyone’s favourite vicar begins as a proposal to refurbish a village church ends in murder; Canon Daniel Clement must investigate. O...