Secret Identity Alex Segura(Flatiron Books)
This noir is set in the 1970s comic-book world—grimier than the Golden or Silver Ages but still devoted to the medium. Assistant Carmen Valdez lends her personal experience to writing a new superhero, the Legendary Lynx, yet can’t get an author credit. But when her co-creator is murdered, Carmen must stay one step ahead of the killer while ensuring that the Lynx makes it to the next issue. Read More...
Movie review "The Post" Im-press-ive. Running time: 115 minutes. Rated PG-13 (profanity).
Streep, Hanks and Spielberg: How has this power threesome never converged before? In a brisk, timely story about freedom of the press, “The Post” may be all-too-easy Oscar bait, but it’s as satisfying and polished as you’d expect.
Streep submerges herself in fabulous wrap dresses and owlish glasses to play Katharine “Kay” Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, faced with the question of whether to run classified, government-damning Vietnam War documents. Read More...
Testing positive for HIV was difficult enough. Getting forced out of the military by the Air Force because of the diagnosis proved even harder.
So say two U.S. airmen who filed suit on Wednesday against Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing that the Pentagon’s decision last month to discharge them from the military owing to their HIV status violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause and federal law. Read More...