hard facts are combined with personal experience to make a fascinating read.

I Best of Young American iiovelists Various (Granta £8.99) Having courted controversy with the 1993 Best of Young British Novelists. Granta takes on the USA. Eighteen established American authors judged which twenty under 40 made the grade. The ‘winners’, their talents ﬂaunted in these short stories and novel extracts. include UK-familiar names Lorrie Moore and Melanie Rae Thon while Elizabeth McCracken and Tome Earley are names to watch. (Susan Mackenzie)

EVENTS

I nichard ilell Wed 3 Jul, 6.30pm. John Smith’s, 252 Byres Road. 334 2769. The New York punk star reads from his new novel Go Now (Fourth Estate £5.99).

I Edwin Morgan Fri 5 Jul, 1-3pm. John Smith’s. 57 St Vincent Street, 221 7472. Recently seen at the GlasgowDemocrats Have Their Own Challenges In Talking About Racial Issues In The Trump Era

So far, they’ve been trying to win back white Trump voters by de-emphasizing race.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in Berryville, Virginia, on July 24 to unveil the Democrats’ new agenda.

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The events in Charlottesville over the weekend put President Trump on the defensive about why white nationalists see him as an ally, led key figures in his own party to distance themselves from the president and inspired some Democratic Party officials from around the country to either consider or accelerate the process of taking down symbols of the Confederacy in their cities and states. If American politics increasingly revolves around questions of culture, identity and race, as