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Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead: A triumph of molls, dolls and deadpan humour

After any chapter of Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy, I feel as though I am reading a particularly operatic story by Damon Runyon, complete with molls, dolls and Broadway-laden side-eyes. It is the kind of widescreen social drama that immediately reads like a screenplay. With pitch-perfect colloquialisms and deadpan humour, these…

Evening Standard

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead: a fitting end to the Harlem trilogy that is sure to make it a classic of New York fiction

This article contains spoilers for the first two books in the Harlem Trilogy

The Conversation

Out of the lab and into the streets, researchers and doctors rally for science against Trump cuts

Researchers, doctors, their patients and supporters are venturing out of labs, hospitals and offices across the country to stand up to what they call an attack on life-saving science by the Trump administration

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Netflix US bosses had one concern over Peter Kay in new Wallace and Gromit film

Comedian provided a spot of trouble for ‘Vengeance Most Fowl’ directors

The Independent UK

Steven Heighton’s Posthumous Book Is a Reckoning with Death

Instructions for the Drowning offers a glimpse of the closure the author may have hoped for

The Walrus

Duke survives Notre Dame’s upset bid to post 68-64 home ACC win

DURHAM, N.C. — A return to its home court meant Duke rediscovered winning on Tuesday night.

Tribune News Service

Feds arrest Brooklyn ‘Bling Bishop’ Lamor Whitehead on extortion charges for swindling parishioner, businessman

NEW YORK — Flashy “Bling Bishop” Lamor Whitehead was busted by federal authorities Monday on charges that he swindled retired parishioners out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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British charity worker faces jail for grabbing air hostess' throat on easyJet flight

Colin Smith, from Hull, lashed out at the easyJet flight attendant after she asked him to be careful while climbing over two other passengers to stagger to the toilet

Daily Mirror

'Man of the people' - Ian Byrne supporters celebrate after huge West Derby win

There has been an outpouring of support for the West Derby MP after a hard fought selection victory

Liverpool Echo

Extravagant Brooklyn pastor arrested mid-sermon after altercation with two women during church livestream

Lamor Whitehead, 44, was cuffed mid-sermon and released two hours after the incident unfolded at his Brooklyn church

The Independent UK

Northumberland attraction welcomes seven millionth visitor in two decades

The Whitehead family from Aberdeen became the seven millionth visitors through the gates at Alnwick Garden last week

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