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Stuck inside? Here are some virtual events for you With much of the city still shut down for at least another couple of weeks, we’ll all still be turning to the internet to find something to do. Books with Beth Book Club: The Beauty in Breaking Michele Harper is a female, African-American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in c...

The best crime fiction of 2020: Liz Moore, Jane Casey, Scott Turow and more Declan Burke and Declan Hughes, our crime-writing specialists, share their picks of the year Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 06:00 Declan Burke and Declan Hughes Liz Moore, author of Long Bright River. A strong year for Irish crime fiction opened with Nicola White’s A Famished Heart (Viper), in which religious martyrdom provides the motive for a suspicious death. Malachi O’Doherty’s debut Terry Brankin H...

The best books of 2020 to support indie publishers this Christmas Guardian staff Earthlingsby Sayaka Murata (Granta) The follow-up to Convenience Store Woman, this is the story of Natsuki, who as a 10-year-old hopes a spaceship will take her to the planet Popinpobopia and save her from her miserable childhood. by Adam Kucharski (Wellcome Collection) A serendipitously timed look at why things spread, from viruses to political movements to ideas, by a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. by Yan Ge, translated by Jeremy Tiang (Tilted Axis) In a fictiona...