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Critic s picks: 10 March book releases to read, including The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson and a history of Latin music
Jim Kiest, Staff writer
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Imbolo Mbue, the author of the new book ?’How Beautiful We Were,?“ near her home in Rhinebeck, N.Y., Feb. 15, 2021. The book is a story about how people respond to environmental destruction. It was delayed by the pandemic and before that by the success of her previous book, ?’Behold the Dreamers.?“ (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)Lauren Lancaster /NYTShow MoreShow Less
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Book World: In Kazuo Ishiguro s Klara and the Sun, a robot tries to make sense of humanity
Ron Charles, The Washington Post
March 2, 2021
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By Kazuo Ishiguro
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One hundred years ago, a play titled R.U.R., by Karel Čapek, debuted in Prague and gave us the word robot. Since then, androids have been dreaming of electric sheep, and we ve been having nightmares about the robot apocalypse. But calamity rarely comes in the neat, clarifying ways we fear.
Leave it to Kazuo Ishiguro to articulate our inchoate anxieties about the future we re building. Klara and the Sun, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in 2017, is a delicate, haunting story, steeped in sorrow and hope. Readers still reeling from his 2005 novel Never Let Me Go will find here a gentler exploration of the price children pay for modern advancements. But if the weird complications of technology frame the plot, the real subject, as always
Texans Needed Food and Comfort After a Brutal Storm. As Usual, They Found It at H-E-B.
David Montgomery, Rick Rojas and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, New York Times
Feb. 22, 2021
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Hundreds of San Antonians lined up for supplies at an H-E-B Tuesday.Billy Calzada /Billy Calzada
AUSTIN, Texas The past week had been a nightmare. A winter storm, one of the worst to hit Texas in a generation, robbed Lanita Generous of power, heat and water in her home. The food she had stored in her refrigerator and freezer had spoiled. She was down to her final five bottles of water.
Josie Pagani: Why politics is getting personal - it s tribalism
7 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Donald Trump is the ultimate tribal politician. Photo / AP
NZ Herald
OPINION
The launch of the Climate Change Commission s report was a polite affair. Either everyone s on aboard with the biggest transformation of the economy in history, or criticising it feels risky. A family member who is an NHS nurse in Wales is worried about the cost of lockdown there for her working-class friends, stuck in tiny flats in tower blocks and losing their jobs.
Her brother now thinks she s a right-wing religious zealot. She told me, Politics is splitting our family apart. Why has it got so personal?
How Barnstable High School clubs are running amidst pandemic
Isabelle Bresette
BHS INSIGHT
It is no surprise that clubs are running differently this year because of COVID-19, and many have faced obstacles in getting started again. Existing clubs are still trying to operate this year, whether that be remote or in person. Based on the information provided by the Operations office, there are 24 clubs for the 2020-2021 school year.
Students have had to adjust to new learning environments in every way this year so they were more than prepared to adjust the way they participate in clubs. “All my clubs are running this year, but they are all remote. Student council, Best Buddies, DECA, and Military support all communicate over zoom and have had no in-person events,” said senior Josie Ackell.