Books

Environment

What 1,200 miles on a paddleboard taught a writer about 'blue space'

Taylor Haney

Author Dan Rubinstein paddled from Ottawa to New York City and back to understand how being near water benefits people. His book is called "Water Borne."
New books out this week offer catastrophes that at least profess to be just fantasies

Colin Dwyer

The new books publishing this week may get quite heavy, laden as they are with family tragedy, psychopathy and heartbreak — but at least they are fiction.
Health

Advice for trying GLP-1 drugs for weight loss from a doctor who's been there

Andrea Muraskin

Former FDA chief Dr. David Kessler says the new weight-loss drugs are a powerful tool to fight obesity. But they come with pitfalls. Here's his tips for how to use them successfully.
National

10 years after the deadly church shooting, a new history of 'Mother Emanuel'

Debbie Elliott

Andrew Craig

Samantha Balaban

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, where a white supremacist killed nine worshippers a decade ago.
Arts & Culture

San Diego weekend arts events: Design, street food, free Shakespeare and more

Julia Dixon Evans

This weekend in the arts: EXPO Design Market at MCASD; Fiber Fest at San Diego Craft Collective; Kinfolk Fest; Coronado Playhouse's Free Classics: "As You Like It"; San Diego Dance Theater's "Resilient Skies I"; Juneteenth; City Heights Street Food Fest; Lyrical Groove; "Indian Princesses"; live music picks and more.
Jason Reynolds' favorite thing is being alone

Rachel Martin

Jason Reynolds writes stories that meet kids where they're at, as full, complex people. He talks with Rachel about the value of being a crier, and his restless approach to living life to its fullest.
Thomas Mallon's NYC diaries get to the 'Very Heart' of the AIDS crisis

Maureen Corrigan

Mallon has been keeping diaries for most of his life. The Very Heart of It collects entries from the years 1983 to 1994, when he had recently come out as gay and moved to New York City.
5 dark tales hit shelves this week

Colin Dwyer

Sometimes all it takes to make your day a little brighter is to remind yourself just how dark life can get. Here are four dark novels and a true crime tale.
National

'Day of the Jackal' author Frederick Forsyth dies at 86

The Associated Press

Born in 1938, Forsyth served as a Royal Air Force pilot before becoming a journalist. He covered the attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle, which inspired The Day of the Jackal.
National

Justin Baldoni's $400 million defamation suit against Blake Lively dismissed

Andrew Limbong

Baldoni's $400 million lawsuit was in response to Lively accusing him of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us.