Best Fiction and Non-Fiction Books of 2021 from the NY Times The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers No One Is Talking About This By Patricia Lockwood When We Cease to Understand the World By Benjamín Labatut. Translated by Adrian Nathan West How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History…
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Read More What to Give Someone Who Doesn’t Need AnythingFictionBewilderment by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (One World)Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (Dutton)One Two Three by Laurie Frankel (Holt)Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead)Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Ballantine)Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad (Knopf)The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press) NonfictionBlack Food: Stories,…
Read More Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2021My friend Pat Carter in Capetown makes this. Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 0 minutes Total Time: 8 hours, 20 minutes Yield: serves 10-12 Ingredients GRAHAM CRACKER CRUST 2 cups (200g) graham cracker crumbs (about 12–14 full sheet graham crackers) 1/3 cup (67g) packed light or dark brown sugar 1/2 cup (8 Tablespoons; 115g) unsalted butter, melted CHEESECAKE 1 and 1/4 cups (300ml) heavy cream or heavy whipping cream three 8-ounce blocks (680g) full-fat…
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Read More More than 234,000 pounds of fully cooked ham, pepperoni products recalled due to Listeria concernsfrom Rice University News and Media Relations, Office of Public Affairs Ruth López Turley, a prolific education researcher, professor of sociology and director of Rice University’s Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC), has been selected as the next director of the university’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research after current director Bill Fulton steps down June 30, 2022. Turley, who currently…
Read More Ruth López Turley named next director of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban ResearchBy David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad Philbrick All six Republican appointees on the Supreme Court have long signaled that they have qualms with the Roe v. Wade decision. What’s been less clear is whether at least five of them — enough to make a majority — would be willing to overturn Roe, which would require…
Read More The Supreme Court seems likely to undermine or overturn Roe v. Wade.