Cherry is a fast-paced tale of the perils of addiction, war, psychosis and struggle. Nico Walker penned the novel, his debut, amidst his 11-year prison sentence for bank robbery (of which he’s now serving the final two years). The tale begins with woeful scenes of an unnamed narrator selling shoes and drugs to get by. A nice, middle-class upbringing morphs into a life of deception …
The recipes inside Spirit of the North are rooted in Nordic tradition and new-school invention. The cocktails use seasonal ingredients and embrace Scandinavian philosophies like hygge and lagom—they’re meant to be shared. Author Selma Slabiak is an acclaimed talent in the spirits world and her upbringing in Denmark lends plenty of knowledge. Within the pages of this charming book are 30+ recipes, many of which are inspired by …
In a mind-boggling excerpt from Seth Fletcher’s book Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable (published by Ecco), the author probes the meticulous process behind the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). In fact, a series of collaborative data sets collected in 2017 by eight telescopes around the planet, the EHT aims to create an image of the shadow of a …