by The Tournament of Books Staff
As we leave June behind for hot, sunny July, this week we discuss the first half of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.

After a recent heavy storm, spiderwebs turned part of Australia’s soggy shores into “a glinting blanket.”

↩︎ Atlas Obscura

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A survey of what Americans eat and drink at the beach. Stay for the watermelon-flavored vape quote.

↩︎ The Washington Post

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Yes, the news about the Delta variant is frightening, including for the vaccinated, but here is part of a poem by the great Anne Carson in case you are tiptoeing back into social interaction again.

Will says best birthday since 1968.
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At Amazon, workers are often hired, rated and fired by algorithms that operate with little or no human oversight.

↩︎ Bloomberg

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Among people applying to FEMA for help, the poorest renters are 23% less likely than higher-income renters to get housing help.

↩︎ NPR

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Eighty-one percent of US metro regions with at least 200,000 residents were more segregated in 2019 than they were in 1990.

↩︎ The Los Angeles Times
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Very bright flower paintings by Philip Gerald.

↩︎ Instagram

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At three minutes long, I could listen to it about 16 times on the 50-minute drive it took to get to the “second-closest” Best Buy two towns over.

↩︎ The Pudding

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