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Richard Grant's top 10 books about wandering | Culture

Top 10sCultureRichard Grant's top 10 books about wanderingRichard Grant is a freelance journalist based in Arizona and the author of Ghost Riders: Travels With American Nomads. Guardian review: Ghost Riders Buy Ghost Riders at Amazon.co.uk "I have a restless personality, a compulsion to keep travelling, and I've always enjoyed reading about people who made their lives into a perpetual journey. The literature of wandering and nomadism is also in part a literature of harsh, arid environments - deserts, steppes, tundra - where trees, agriculture and sedentary societies have found it difficult to take root.

Six victims who died in California plane crash identified | Plane crashes

Charred remains of a Cessna lie near the landing approach at French Valley airport, in Murrieta, California, on 8 July. Photograph: Irfan Khan/APCharred remains of a Cessna lie near the landing approach at French Valley airport, in Murrieta, California, on 8 July. Photograph: Irfan Khan/APPlane crashes This article is more than 6 months oldSix victims who died in California plane crash identifiedThis article is more than 6 months oldCessna C550 crashed on approach during second attempt to land at French Valley airport, where visibility was limited

Whats behind a surge of deaths at one Ohio jail?

OhioMontgomery county jail’s population is only 600 people – and all seven deaths happened within days of entering the facility, during pre-trial detention Days after Steven Blackshear was booked into Montgomery county jail in downtown Dayton, Ohio, in January, a nurse found him shaking, in a fetal position and vomiting. He complained of chest and leg pains and was taken for medical testing. Two days later, he was found dead in his cell, covered only in towels.

Youth seduced by older woman 'will suffer trauma later in life' | UK news

UK newsYouth seduced by older woman 'will suffer trauma later in life'Older women who seduce very young men, like Mrs Robinson in the Dustin Hoffman film The Graduate, can cause males lasting damage and "implant the seeds of self-hate and self-harm", according to a professor of psychiatry. If a girl under 16 has a sexual experience with a man five years older, she was considered to be the victim of abuse, said Michael King from the Royal Free and University College medical school in London.

Bill Lynch: The Exile of Dionysus review the greatest American artist youve never heard of?

Four Corners Sunset, 1994 by Bill Lynch. Photograph: Rob Harris/ Brighton CCAFour Corners Sunset, 1994 by Bill Lynch. Photograph: Rob Harris/ Brighton CCAThe ObserverPaintingReviewBrighton CCA He died aged 53 without ever having shown his work, but Bill Lynch’s paintings on salvaged wood transfix with their dual power of primitive joy and high sophistication The great American artist Bill Lynch (1960-2013) never had a single exhibition in his lifetime. Almost nothing was written about his wild and beautiful paintings – ancient yet modern, mythological yet supremely contemporary – and they have only gradually started to emerge.