Seattle This article is more than 4 months oldPolice union leader said woman killed by Seattle officer ‘had limited value’This article is more than 4 months oldDaniel Auderer denies wrongdoing, claiming he ‘intended the comment as a mockery of lawyers’
A Seattle police union leader was caught on camera joking about a woman who was killed by a police cruiser, saying her life had “limited value” and the city should “just write a check”. Read More...
Book of the dayThrillersReviewMauvignier sustains an almost unbearable tension as villagers in rural France stumble into a bloodbath
Only two of French writer Laurent Mauvignier’s 12 previous novels have appeared in English: The Wound (2015), about the Algerian war of independence, and In the Crowd (2008), which followed four groups of characters en route to Brussels ahead of the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus, drawing grisly voltage from the reader’s foreknowledge of the Heysel stadium disaster. Read More...
Organ GrinderThe WireThe Wire re-up: season three, episode one – String theorySPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who have already seen The Wire in its entirety. This week: the laws of economics crash into the laws of the corner The Wire Re-up - the book is out now. Click here to buy it
Season three opens with the demolition of the infamous towers, home and greenhouse to many of our favourite dealers and hoppers. Read More...