People rest on cots at a waste transfer plant turned shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, on 8 November 2023. Photograph: Emily Mesner/APPeople rest on cots at a waste transfer plant turned shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, on 8 November 2023. Photograph: Emily Mesner/APAlaska This article is more than 2 months oldAnchorage, Alaska, scrambles to house homeless amid record snowfallThis article is more than 2 months oldA record number of people living outdoors in the state’s largest city have died this year, and 3ft of snow has filled shelters to capacity Anchorage scrambled to come up with more temporary housing for the homeless after back-to-back snowstorms dumped more than 3ft of snow on the city in just nine days, an amount that is high even by Alaska standards. Read More...
My family valuesFamilyInterviewDonny Osmond: ‘I told Dad I planned to marry. He said: “There goes your career”’Interview by Roz LewisThe singer on growing up in a religious show-business family, lightening up as a dad and being married for 39 yearsI am the seventh of nine children, so when I arrived, there was already Virl, 12; Tom, 10; Alan, eight; Wayne, six; Merrill, four, and Jay, two. We first lived in Ogden, Utah, in a rural area – it had plenty of fields around it and there was a cow and other animals. Read More...
BooksAuthors choose the Kazuo Ishiguro novels closest to their hearts, including Never Let Me Go, The Buried Giant and The Remains of the Day
Read an exclusive of extract from Klara and the Sun Ishiguro interview: ‘AI, gene-editing, big data ... I worry we are not in control of these things any more’ Never Let Me GoMargaret Atwood
A Kazuo Ishiguro novel is never about what it pretends to be about, and Never Let Me Go is true to form. Read More...
