| No Images? Click here   According to Merriam-Webster, "confrere" arrived in English from Anglo-French in the 15th century, and ultimately derives from the Medieval Latin confrater, meaning "brother" or "fellow."  The season promises a veritable cornucopia of enthralling novels and short story collections. Here are 28 of the books we’re most eager to get our hands on.  Over the past five days, Tropical Storm Harvey, the worst storm to hit the Houston, Texas, region in 50 years, has devastated the country’s fourth-largest city. Along with being home to one of the most diverse populations in America, Houston and its surrounding areas also house a stunning accumulation of modern, contemporary and community-based art. How did museums throughout Houston and its surrounding area prepare for the Category 4 hurricane and the catastrophic flooding in its wake? And how are they dealing with, or preparing to deal with, its effects?HuffPost reached out to a variety of art institutions in the area, who graciously took the time to describe how they readied themselves for Harvey and what they plan to do after the storm subsides.  Summer reading challenge!Welcome back to HuffPost’s Summer Reading Challenge! In case you missed it, we read one book per week between June and September. Twelve books in 12 weeks. Here are our thoughts on our 12th and final summer reading pick!📚 Last week we read: The Leavers by Lisa Ko "When Deming Guo is a child, his Chinese immigrant mother, Polly, disappears without explanation. He stays for a while with his mother’s boyfriend, the boyfriend’s sister, and her son in the Bronx, but one day he’s sent upstate to live with well-meaning white foster parents — liberal college professors — who rename him Daniel Wilkinson. At first he hopes his mother will come to claim him, but eventually he gets used to life in his lily-white small town. It’s only as a young man with a passion for music and a tendency to make poor decisions that he decides to find her — a quest that leads him to a city in Fuzhou, China. Lisa Ko’s novel took me a little while to get into, but I was won over by the richness of her characters — especially Deming and Polly — and the haunting narrative. The Leavers offers acute but subtle commentary, through the plot and through Deming and Polly’s observations, on the personal damage that can be left behind thanks to brutal immigration policy and interracial adoption policies that put white parents’ needs above those of children, non-white biological parents, and cultural heritage. An illuminating and beautifully crafted read." 📚 Happy Fall reading! 📚        On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced President Donald Trump’s plan to allow surplus military grade weapons including bayonets, grenade launchers and tanks to be transferred, for free, to local police departments. The White House intends to lift an Obama-era ban put in place in 2015, after police controversially donned military-style gear while confronting protesters demonstrating following the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer. In response, MAD Magazine shared an image originally published in the humor mag’s February 2015 issue, a dark parody of Norman Rockwell’s classic painting “The Runaway,” by longtime MAD contributing artist Richard Williams.   Why the garment with a rich symbolic history is popping up in pop culture thanks to artists like SZA, Bat for Lashes and Beyonce.  On Aug. 10, PEN Center USA named John Smelcer’s Young Adult novel Stealing Indians as one of four finalists for the Literary Award in the YA category. Just two weeks later, the book ― and Smelcer ― have been overtaken by a long-simmering scandal that has called into question the book’s cultural accuracy, the author’s credentials and the swill of prestigious accolades surrounding both.  Writing children’s books with hateful, xenophobic messages may not be against the law, but copyright infringement is.Matt Furie, the artist behind the viral amphibian Pepe the Frog, brought copyright infringement charges against a former Texas assistant principal whose self-published picture book revolved around a racist frog named Pepe. As reported by Motherboard’s Matthew Gault, The Adventures of Pepe and Pede author Eric Hauser admitted to copying Furie’s image, and the lawsuit was settled in a few days. All sales of the book will come to a close and the entirety of its profits will go toward a Muslim civil rights advocacy organization.   Read more:
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