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Teen Girl Reveals Why She Tackled 13-Year-Old Football Player In Viral Incident That Led To Charges

“I feel as if criminal charges are a bit much in this case,” one person wrote.

Bored Panda · Aug 22

Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor review – portrait of a working-class artist in New York

This novel is stacked with ideas about Black art and aesthetics – but its language is too clumsy and academic to bring them to life

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23

Lawsuit by New Orleans truck attack victims says city, contractors failed to implement safety system

Six people who were injured and the father of a man who was killed in the New Year’s truck attack are suing the City of New Orleans and two contractors, claiming they failed to protect revelers from an Army veteran who sped around a police blockade and raced down Bourbon…

The Independent UK · Jan 9, 2025

Top of the List: the best things to watch, read and cook in Australia this weekend

In a new weekly column, the team behind pop culture newsletter Saved for Later recommend their latest and/or forthcoming obsessions

The Guardian - AU · Aug 25, 2023

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore and Bellies by Nicola Dinan.

The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2023

Meet Brandon Taylor: from scientist to the next great American author

Booker-nominated author Brandon Taylor is back with a new novel, The Last Americans, which is set to enhance his reputation as one of the most exciting and uncompromising voices in literature. Jason Okundaye meets him

Evening Standard · Jun 27, 2023

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor review – a class act

A college campus in the midwest provides the setting for this expansive novel of sex, politics and self-discovery

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2023

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor review – a real university challenge

Inert characters mar the Real Life author’s new novel – a study of education, economics and desire set on a campus in America’s midwest

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2023

'The Late Americans' is not just a campus novel

Brandon Taylor deftly explores the idea of youth's possibilities and the constraints of time, space, class and wealth disparities through the intersecting lives university students and townspeople.

WEKU · Jun 5, 2023

Brandon Taylor: ‘Writing is the most fun I’m capable of having’

The American author talks about growing up queer in a family of ‘wolves’, poverty and class in the US, and the 19th-century writers who inspired his latest novel

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2023