Author: Simon Balto
On Tuesday, a jury in Minneapolis found former Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Mohamed Noor guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter--a conviction stemming from Noor's 2017 shooting of Justine.
My new book is officially out today. Occupied Territory is a project that dates back to my early years in graduate school, which makes this a book roughly a decade.
I spend an incredible amount of time commuting these days, which means that I've gotten really into podcasts. Apropos of nothing, I figured other pod-heads would perhaps enjoy a few.
There's a really great, important interview of Ta-Nehisi Coates by Eric Levitz up today over at the New York Magazine website. The headline is pretty silly, but the piece itself is.
Many readers even passingly familiar with the modern music industry will, by now, probably have heard of the Times breaking story on Ryan Adams's abusive and manipulative relationships with women and girls. .
Between Netflix ponying up $45 million for the adaptation of J.D. Vance's whitewashed vision of Appalachia and Liam Neeson revealing his racist revenge fantasies while out on the promotional circuit.
Mollie Tibbetts was a student at the school where I now teach. For those who don't recall the story, Tibbetts was a 20-year-old student at the University of Iowa who.
Every year, going back to my pre-LGM days, I’ve made lists of my favorite books I read in a given year. (Last year’s list, my first for LGM, is here.).