Lindsay Baker

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Rebecca Laurence |Lindsay Baker

21 hours agoThe holiday was always an implicit warning that what had been done could be done again. Five years ago, as the streets ran hot and the body of George Floyd lay cold, optimistic commentators believed that America was on the verge of a breakthrough in its eternal deliberation over the humanity of …

1 week ago | bbc.com | Rebecca Laurence |Lindsay Baker

The 12 best books of 2025 so farRebecca Laurence and Lindsay BakerBloomsbury, Knopf, Penguin Random HouseFrom multigenerational family sagas to speculative dystopias – the very best fiction of the year so far. Riverhead Books, Penguin Random HouseDream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieMore than 10 years have passed since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's acclaimed Americanah, so the arrival of her new novel is a big literary moment.

1 month ago | bbc.co.uk | Lindsay Baker

A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being released to memorialise some of those who suffered. When King James was returning by sea to Scotland with his new wife Anne of Denmark, the voyage was plagued by bad weather – not unusual, for the famously choppy North Sea. But the king was convinced that the devil and his agents – the witches – had a hand in the storm.

Feb 18, 2025 | bbc.com | Lindsay Baker

How one surprising photo of a teenage Kate Moss kick-started the 1990sEstate of Corinne Day/ Bridgeman ImagesAn iconic image of Kate Moss marked an explosive moment of change in Britain – and helped to create the culture we now live in. It's among the photographs displayed in a new exhibition that celebrates the photography of The Face magazine.

Jan 14, 2025 | trimtab.living-future.org | Lindsay Baker

Dear friends,When we were finalizing our 2025-2027 Strategic Plan, I was living through one of the longest heat waves that my state of California had ever experienced. Families and workers struggled to stay cool despite the record-breaking temperatures, hospitalizations increased, and over 70 million people lived under a heat alert. We had also just been informed that the average global temperature has warmed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for 12 months in a row.