Arts & Life

STRUNG OUT One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed MeA Memoir By Erin Khar The standard narrative of the opioid epidemic begins in the 1990s, when American pharmaceutical companies flooded the country’s mostly rural, mostly working-class areas with potent prescription painkillers. When the patients who became addicted were …

(Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) on Tuesday largely maintained its key profit goals for the medium term, while the largest U.S. bank also raised its financial commitment for clean-energy initiatives, after years of pressure from environmental activists. FILE PHOTO: The J.P.Morgan logo is seen at Canary Wharf financial …

LURKING How a Person Became a User By Joanne McNeil In her first book, “Lurking,” Joanne McNeil charts the history of the internet through the experiences of the users. These are not necessarily the same as people. Conflating the two, McNeil explains, “hides the ‘existence of two classes of people …

In that first class, the narrator’s one defender is Billy, a young scholarship student from Illinois who shows great literary promise despite never having heard of David Foster Wallace, whose “Infinite Jest” has just been published. (“He writes pretty avant-garde stuff,” the narrator helpfully explains to his new friend. “He’s …

GREENWOODBy Michael Christie Imagine that you’re a humble woodland guide, working for pitiful wages at an island resort northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia. The year is 2038, and Greenwood Arboreal Cathedral, as it’s called, is home to “one of the last remaining old-growth forests on Earth.” Most of the world …

If you’re looking for context, history or scientific information about the spread of disease, these books are a good place to start. AIDS Image ‘And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic,’ by Randy Shilts As Shilts writes in the prologue of his award-winning 1987 book: “The …

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg on Monday clashed with front-runner Bernie Sanders over vandalism at Bloomberg’s Chicago office and their gun control stances, while centrist rival Pete Buttigieg was heckled at a labor march. Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg marches …

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg on Monday called on front-runner Bernie Sanders to denounce vandals who scrawled the word “oligarch” on Bloomberg’s Chicago office, and moderate rival Pete Buttigieg was heckled at a march with labor activists. Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former South Bend Mayor …

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders came under fire on Monday for comments about late Cuban President Fidel Castro, and moderate rival Pete Buttigieg was heckled at a march with labor activists. Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg marches with striking McDonald’s …

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders came under fire on Monday for comments about late Cuban President Fidel Castro, while moderate rival Joe Biden rolled out an affordable-housing plan in South Carolina, the next state to vote. Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders speaks an …