Yellow Dirt

Journalist Judy Pasternak turns her award-winning Los Angeles Times series about the shameful results of Federal uranium mining on Navajo lands into a book-length indictment of the government's callous treatment of a tribe of its citizens.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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