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Two years ago the Supreme Court upended decades of precedent by ruling that universities could no longer use affirmative action to determine admissions for students. In the case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court explained in the majority opinion that the color of a student’s skin can no longer determine his or […]

News Bookish Mark Gatiss Quirkily Solves Crimes in Bookish “Leave nothing out, especially if it’s salacious, gory, or vaguely scandalous.” By Molly Templeton | Published on June 24, 2025 Image: UKTV Comment 0 Share New Share Image: UKTV The name’s Book. Gabriel Book. And yes: Book owns a bookshop. Bookish is a new series coming to PBS that combines several things very beloved of certain audiences: books, bookshops, murders, and Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss. Here’s how the show is described by UKTV, which is releasing it in the UK: London 1946 is the setting for series one, with viewers introduced to the appropriately named Gabriel Book (Gatiss) who owns a bookshop in Archangel Lane. If his War was packed with espionage and secrets, Book’s Peace is just as full of adventure! Now he helps the police solve the strangest of crimes and the knottiest of murders. But his close association to the force is not without its dangers. For although he is very happily married to his childhood best friend, the captivating Trottie (played by Polly Walker), Book is a gay man living at a time when homosexuality was illegal. When Book and Trottie take in Jack it seems like an act of altruism: a second chance for a young jailbird. And Jack (played by Connor Finch) proves a worthy assistant both in the shop and in Book’s murder investigations.It soon becomes clear, however, that Jack’s appointment wasn’t quite as random as it at first appears… With a complex mystery at the heart of every story, featuring a wealth of well-known guest stars, marrying post-war nostalgia with the reckless and life affirming atmosphere of the times, Bookish is a stylish period detective drama with a difference. That’s quite a cast of British all-stars—and the series also features Joely Richardson (Emerald City) and Paul McGann (Doctor Who). There is also a dog named Dog. Gatiss is the creator and writer of Bookish as well as its star. The project was originally intended to be a novel, but Gatiss “couldn’t get the tone right,” as he told Deadline. Perhaps it’s appropriate, then, that the UK will also have a spin-off novel written by Matthew Sweet. (In the UK, the series has already been renewed for a second season.) Bookish will arrive on PBS at some still mysterious future date.[end-mark] The post Mark Gatiss Quirkily Solves Crimes in <i>Bookish</i> appeared first on Reactor.

News The Strangers: Chapter 2 The Strangers: Chapter 2 Trailer Welcomes Us to Venus The sequel is the second in a planned trilogy, with all footage already shot. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 24, 2025 Screenshot: Lionsgate Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Lionsgate Welcome to Venus, Oregon! A small town where a woman named Maya is trying to survive getting maimed and murdered by masked individuals who tried to kill her once (and succeeded in killing her boyfriend), and still want her dead for unclear reasons. That’s the premise of The Strangers: Chapter 2, the second installment in a planned horror trilogy from director Renny Harlin. Lionsgate released another trailer today that confirms that the sequel picks up moments after the first film, where Maya (Madelaine Petsch) is recovering in a local hospital. The masked killers hunt her down from there, and they then apparently go on a road trip to, presumably, Venus, Oregon, where Maya continues to try to survive, both inside a house of some sort and also the great outdoors. Lionsgate also released an in-world website, visitvenusoregon.com, which includes some worldbuilding for those interested in figuring out what makes those masked murderers tick. Some of the site’s pages are locked, but you can open them by providing your email. You can tell from what’s publicly available, however, that Venus is a very religious town, where perhaps everyone in said town is into murdering Maya for ritualistic reasons. Intriguing! In addition to Petsch, The Stranger: Chapter 2 stars Gabriel Basso and Ema Horvath. The script comes from Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freedland. It premieres in theaters on September 26, 2025. Check out the latest trailer below.[end-mark] The post <i>The Strangers: Chapter 2</i> Trailer Welcomes Us to Venus appeared first on Reactor.

Excerpts Horror Read an Excerpt From One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford A brilliant scientist desperately searches for a cure after a devastating epidemic while also hiding a huge secret—her undead husband. By Leigh Radford | Published on June 24, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford, a heart-wrenching spin on the zombie mythos publishing with Gallery Books on July 15th. How far would you go to save your marriage? For British scientist Kesta Shelley, there is no limit.Having always preferred the company of microbes, Kesta has spent her life looking down the barrel of a microscope rather than cultivating personal relationships. But that changed when Kesta met Tim—her cheerleader, her best friend, her absolute everything. So, when he was one of the last people in London to be infected with a perplexing virus that left the city ravaged, Kesta went into triage mode.Though the government has rounded up and disposed of all the infected, Kesta is able to keep her husband (un)alive—and hidden—with resources from the hospital where she works. She spends her days reviewing biopsy slides and her evenings caring for him, but he’s clearly declining. The sedatives aren’t working like they used to, and his violent outbursts are becoming more frequent. As Kesta races against the clock, her colleagues start noticing changes in her behavior and appearance. She is withering away, self-medicating with alcohol, and has stopped attending her mandated ZARG (Zombie Apocalypse Recovery Group) meetings. Her care for Tim has spiraled into absolute obsession.There are whispers of a top-secret lab working on a cure, and Kesta clings to the possibility of being recruited like a lifeline. But can she save her husband before he is discovered? Or worse… will they trigger another outbreak? London lay prone, a cadaver dredged from a riverbed, under a sheet of cloud, resigned and exposed. It was no longer the city Kesta had grown up in. This city was terminal, its life draining away through mile after mile of ancient drains, out into the Thames Estuary and the North Sea. As she walked toward the Barbican, past its deserted tube station, heading east, she could slice through the lane dividers all the way down Aldersgate Street without a single car to bother her. The red Z signs spray painted onto doors and windows of buildings where the virus had struck demarcated her journey. Government posters clung to their walls shredded and defaced. Huge billboards lit up the roundabout warning people to stay indoors. Leaflets and cards, printed and handwritten, clogged up the gutters along the pavements. Churches offering sanctuary. Instructions from the army on self-defense. Homemade posters for those who were missing, their expectant faces now dirtied by other people’s footprints, staring up at Kesta from the ground, still hoping to be found. Evangelical fliers proclaiming the end of times and all the answers you needed at the end of a hotline for £6.99 a minute. The streets were littered with relics of the crisis that lay where they had fallen, in the doorways of shuttered shops and cafes where once the homeless might have slept. Kesta passed by an old pub, still boarded up, a single light on in the back somewhere, shining for no one. There were no homeless people living in London now. They had been amongst the first to die. Coming home to no one was the hardest part of all. Before turning the key in the lock, there was a split second of hope, that he’d still be there as she remembered him. The flat was so lonely without his endless chatter, always delivered in his outdoor, college bar baritone. Indoor voice, for God’s sake she used to say to him, the neighbors will hear you. Tim would give her that smile, her only weakness, and carry on as loudly as before. She had the indoor voice. And without him it was barely a whisper. What she wouldn’t give to be embarrassed by the sheer volume of him now. Buy the Book One Yellow Eye Leigh Radford Buy Book One Yellow Eye Leigh Radford Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget The blinds in the living room remained closed, had been for five months. Light would attract them, they were told at first, so everyone had drawn their curtains and waited obediently for it to be over. She had grown accustomed to shutting out the world because performing for it like a monkey—at work, at therapy, as people tried to engage her at the supermarket or the park—it exhausted her. She went to the fridge and removed a bottle of white wine from the night before, along with a cardboard box from the middle shelf. Aside from a pint of milk and a bag of ground coffee, the fridge was as deserted as the flat. Kesta did not cook, that had been Tim’s pleasure. She struggled to eat at home now. Anyway, the fridge was mostly occupied by blood bags. O+. Kesta’s own. And a regiment of tiny glass vials where the eggs should have been. She poured herself a glass of wine and lifted a circular lemon sponge from the cardboard box, depositing it on a dinner plate and rummaged in the kitchen’s junk draw for something she wasn’t sure she still had. But there they were, the little pink candles, stuffed at the very back, in between a torch, a plug adaptor and some crayons, and she was relieved to see they had only been lit once before. Kesta slid the nicest tea tray she owned, which had belonged to Tim’s mother—art-deco, solid silver handles—out from underneath the drinks trolley in the living room. She arranged her sorry celebration across it. Kesta laid the tray to rest on the table in the hallway and began the arduous process of opening the four black deadlocks on the spare bedroom door. The room was in total darkness save for the primary colors of the vitals monitor casting an eerie rainbow across the bed like a nursery light. Sporadic bleeps and whirs from the machine reassured Kesta that some life remained. She recorded these readings in the notebook she kept on the nightstand, heart rate, oxygen levels, body temperature. All abnormal but at least unchanged. Kesta returned to the hallway for the tray, sliding it across the nightstand. One yellow eye watched her. It saw but didn’t see and it never, ever blinked. A graying arm upheaved into the restraints before falling with a defeated puff. Violence had fought its way out of that body and now it was a scene of great suffering. It was unnaturally positioned, a marionette with its strings cut. A spider’s web of ruptured vessels, scaly skin stretched taut and livid. Every inch of it was screaming. But there was no pain, no sound, no progress in the patient that Kesta could determine. She lit the candles on the cake, and she showed the cake to Tim. “Happy Birthday, darling.” Excerpted from One Yellow Eye, copyright © 2025 by Leigh Radford. The post Read an Excerpt From <i>One Yellow Eye</i> by Leigh Radford appeared first on Reactor.

In the wake of Israel’s and the United States’ successful interception of Iranian missile strikes, Senate Republicans are renewing their push for a “Golden Dome” that would shield the United States from ballistic missiles. The Golden Dome Act, inspired by Israel’s “Iron Dome” system, would authorize more than $23 billion “to begin developing a modernized, layered homeland missile-defense system that can counter, detect, track, and defeat existing and evolving missiles threats” a statement from the office of Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, reads. Sullivan’s state would play a major role in that, with the Cobra Dane radar already on Shemya Island, Alaska, being used as a detection system for incoming missiles, helping the United States intercept them. “Our country should use and build on this technology that we’ve already developed to develop our own missile-defense system,” Sullivan said at a press conference as he praised the success of American-backed missile-defense systems in Israel and Qatar. The Golden Dome Act would set up a network of military technologies, such as space-based sensors, missile interceptors. and mobile launch systems to detect and destroy incoming missile strikes from abroad. The Israeli Iron Dome intercepts an Iranian missile over Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 18. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images) There is, of course, the fear of an arms race. Some foreign nuclear powers have characterized talk of a Golden Dome system as a foreign policy escalation. North Korea’s Foreign Ministry, for example, accused it of starting “a global nuclear and space arms race,” and Russian Foreign Minister Maria Zakharova, said it “directly undermines the foundations of strategic stability.” Asked whether he thought the Golden Dome might lead to an arms race, Sullivan rejected the premise. “To the people who are kind of wringing their hands like, ‘Oh, this is going to be a space race in space’—wake up,” he said. “That’s already happened.” Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images) The Golden Dome “hopefully will take away the threat from major countries or rogue nations to come after our country,” he added. “I think it provides leverage, decision time for leaders, and it does put other countries, our adversaries, on the defensive.” Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., also jumped in, saying that U.S. Space Force Gen. B. Chance Saltzman had told him in a hearing about “a couple of very specific” offensive weapons used by the United States’ adversaries in outer space. “The reality is, the safer the United States is, the safer the world is,” said Cramer. The post Republicans Press for ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense Shield appeared first on The Daily Signal.