The Metropolitan Police is on high alert amid fears of widespread rioting in London involving violent street gangs this summer. Officers are concerned that there could be a repeat of the riots, prompted by the shooting of Mark Duggan by police, which swept across London and other cities in 2011. Plans are underway by local...
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing Gyasi’s brilliantly conceived, artfully written first novel spans nearly three centuries of African and American history. She begins with two half-sisters born of the same mother in different villages on Africa’s Gold Coast. “Separated sisters,” Gyasi writes, “are like a woman...