There is a particular strain of American story about the family that moves to the country chasing some quieter, truer version of life, and Daniel Mason’s Country People knows exactly how that story usually goes before gleefully declining to go there. This is the July pick for Good Morning America’s
Picture the least heroic person you know, an overworked, slightly cynical middle manager at a big-box office supply store, and then imagine dropping him naked into a blood cult’s hedge maze on another planet. That is the opening indignity visited on Jason Asano, the reluctant hero of Travis Deverell’s He
There is a particular kind of quiet that falls over a fandom when it knows the end is coming, and that quiet has hung over readers of Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper for months. With Volume 6, the beloved graphic novel series that turned a shy sketch of two British schoolboys into
By Jordan Rau, KFF Health News Sam Ato Timaloa, a paroled sex offender who also served time for attempted murder, had dementia and an acute intolerance of noise — especially from roommates at Sunrise Post Acute, a nursing home in Banning, California. Over four months in 2025, a state investigative
By Rafael Carranza, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. Co-published with Arizona Luminaria. Arizona’s largest sheriff’s department is losing ground in its effort to comply with court-mandated reforms tied to a long-running racial profiling lawsuit and settlement, a monitor has found. An investigation launched last year by the
A sentient cat with a flamethrower. A washed-up Coast Guard vet who talks like he’s perpetually one bad day from a bar fight. A dungeon that is also a reality show broadcast to billions of alien viewers who bet real money on whether you live or die. If that combination
Spain is the world champion. La Roja held off a dogged, ten-man Argentina side 1-0 in extra time on Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, claiming the country’s second World Cup title 16 years after its first in 2010. The breakthrough came 39 seconds into the second
Wake up with no memory, two dead crewmates floating beside you, and the fate of every living thing on Earth resting on your ability to remember middle-school chemistry. That is where Andy Weir drops us at the start of Project Hail Mary, and it is a testament to how well
Picture the worst possible way to lose your apartment, your girlfriend, and your species’ claim to being the dominant life form on Earth, all in the same afternoon — and then picture that catastrophe getting turned into a game show. That is the pitch of Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl,
Some novels announce themselves with a whisper; this one kicks the door in. Fourteen years after The Help made her a household name, Kathryn Stockett returns to the sweltering, unequal, gloriously alive American South with a book that trades the segregated kitchens of 1960s Jackson for the dust-choked, penniless summer
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