![]() So too are the inspiring achievements and painful tragedies of black education in the United States. The reasons for the venomous hatred of Jews, and of other groups like them in countries around the world, are explored in an essay that asks, "Are Jews Generic?" Misconceptions of German history in general, and of the Nazi era in particular, are also re-examined. An essay titled "The Real History of Slavery" presents a jolting re-examination of that tragic institution and the narrow and distorted way it is too often seen today. ![]() ![]() It presents eye-opening insights into the historical development of the ghetto culture that is today wrongly seen as a unique black identity-a culture cheered on toward self-destruction by white liberals who consider themselves "friends" of blacks. In a series of long essays, this book presents an in-depth look at key beliefs behind many mistaken and dangerous actions, policies, and trends. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted. This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It's a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good., "Lewis's overview of the evolution of NFL strategy. ![]() It isn't., Eoeas Close to Perfect As a Work of Popular Nonfiction Can Be.E, It's not a jock book. It isn't.", Lewis's overview of the evolution of NFL strategy.is not only sound but shrewder than that of many so-called football insiders who can't see the forest for the trees., "Combining a tour de force of sports analysis with a piquant ethnography of the South's pigskin mania, Lewis probes the fascinating question of whether football is a matter of brute force or subtle intellect.", The Blind Side is as insightful and moving a meditation on class inequality in America as I have ever read-although to put it that way, I realize, makes it sound deadly dull. ", "?The Blind Side ?is as insightful and moving a meditation on class inequality in America as I have ever read-although to put it that way, I realize, makes it sound deadly dull. It's a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good. ![]() ?The Blind Side ?is as insightful and moving a meditation on class inequality in America as I have ever read-although to put it that way, I realize, makes it sound deadly dull. ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, after a talk, I have often been asked by audience members about wolves eating mainly mice.” “It is clear that his book ended up adding to the trove of wolf misinformation that is prevalent across the world. “The mistakes Mowat made are still being spread as fact by members of the public,” Mech said. ![]() To this day, Mech hears from people who think this is fact. Mowat claimed, for example, that wolves lived mainly off small rodents, such as mice, and not hoofed animals. “There’s far too much evidence, including Mowat’s own journals, to suggest otherwise.” David Mech, a longtime wolf biologist and founder of the International Wolf Center. “I firmly believe the book should be considered a work of fiction,” said Dr. ![]() His real-life account of wolf behavior in Canada seemed to shed new light on their prey, their behavior and their role in an ecosystem.īut was it actually a true story as he proclaimed? When Farley Mowat published his 1963 book, Never Cry Wolf, it was heralded by environmentalists from his native Canada all the way to the Soviet Union. ![]() ![]() The forest system drifts away piece by piece. They will consume more and more kelp until the forest becomes a sea-bottom clear-cut, a barren ruin. Without the otter, urchins are unregulated. Otters feed on the urchins and thus keep their population from expanding. ![]() Urchins feed on the base stalk of the kelp when eaten through, the long strands either drift out to sea or are washed ashore. The kelp forest is a rich system of interacting kelp-reliant species: no kelp, no forest, no species, no ecosystem. The kelp–sea urchin–otter dynamic along North America’s western coast is a classic example of how natural checks and balances operate on populations. While that species may flourish for a time as it dominates its world, the fact of its biological single-mindedness to eat, breed and eat some more can lead to the collapse of the system that supported it to begin with. Absent population growth controls-predators or herbivores, for example-a species may take over an ecosystem. ![]() When supplied ample resources, all life forms have the reproductive capacity to grow exponentially, as depicted in the well-known J-curve graph. ![]() ![]() ![]() The final two books contain some of the boldest writing choices any mainstream author has ever made, and I can't guarantee you'll like them all. ![]() Also, King's interest in twins is going to be very important as we enter book 5. ![]() These books have minor connections to the main series. Some other books I'd strongly recommend reading at this point (that aren't quite as vital) are "Desperation" and "The Regulators." These are twin novels that were published simultaneously, the former under King's name and the latter under King's pseudonym, Richard Bachman. One of the characters in " Hearts of Atlantis," published by King in 1999, will also turn out to be important down the line. And while you've got the collection in your hands, you should also read the titular story "Everything Eventual" in the collection as well, because that also features connections to the Dark Tower universe. "The Little Sister of Eluria" is a novella written in 1998, most easily found in King's collection "Everything Eventual." It's another flashback story, but its events take place after the big flashback of "Wizard and Glass." You don't technically need to read this book to understand everything afterward, but it certainly helps. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is at this point that the characters of Atay, Turgut Özben and Selim Işık, who are sentenced to mental exile, literally coincide with the Invisible Man who is sentenced to a bodily exile. While, Atay sheds light upon the alienated individual via using disconnection as a motif, Ellison addresses the alienated individual in American society through invisibility. In both works, in order to encounter and overcome their alienation, the main characters create a common space through the methods they develop. In relation, Oğuz Atay’s The Disconnected (1972) and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) address the concept of alienation through the portrayal of the spiritual journey of the universal lonely individual from the perspectives of Turkish and American cultures. As literature is inherently the reflection of social life, the concept of alienation has become an intersection point of literary works. ![]() Throughout history, the concRegardless of time, place and social differences, the concept of alienation, as a part of social life, has been regarded as a universal theme. Invisibility and Disconnectedness in the Twentieth Century Novel: The Comparative Analysis of the Concept of Alienation in Oğuz Atay’s The Disconnected and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man ![]() ![]() The Chautauqua Institution, about 55 miles southwest of Buffalo in a rural corner of New York, is known for its summertime lecture series. Rushdie rose to prominence with his Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children,” but his name became known around the world after “The Satanic Verses.” The title came from the pseudonym Rushdie had used while in hiding. In 2012, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa. The Index on Censorship, an organization promoting free expression, said money was raised to boost the reward for his killing as recently as 2016, underscoring that the fatwa for his death still stands. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Iran’s government has long since distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment has lingered. One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. ![]() Rushdie emerged after nine years of seclusion and cautiously resumed more public appearances, maintaining his outspoken criticism of religious extremism overall. ![]() ![]() The death threats and bounty led Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, including a round-the-clock armed guard. The novel was banned in Iran, where the late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.Ī bounty of over $3 million has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie. ![]() ![]() Many of Hemingway’s stories give an inside view of what it was like to live in Paris in the roaring ’20s. For example, Easter is a moveable feast.) Allen gives us a feast for the eyes with stunning shots of Paris as his characters move about the city, coupled with the period jazz that is characteristic of Allen’s movies. ![]() ![]() In the book, Hemingway wrote: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” (A moveable feast refers to a holy day of feasting or fasting in Christianity that isn’t fixed and moves each year in response to the equinox. To top the year off, Corey Stoll portrayed Woody Allen’s take on Hemingway in Midnight in Paris.Īllen uses A Moveable Feast (Hemingway’s posthumous collection of essays about living in Paris in the ’20s) as the foundation for Midnight in Paris. The Paris Wife (a fictionalized account Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson) by Paula McLain also hit the New York Times Best Seller List. ![]() Fifty years after his death, Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life and Lost 1934 – 1961 by Paul Hendrickson was published. The year 2011 proved that Ernest Hemingway is still hot, culturally-speaking. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cheryl lives an intense fantasy life that often bleeds awkwardly into her social interactions.īut the people surrounding Cheryl are by no means any less strange. July lets us peer into Cheryl’s odd life: her anxiety-driven throat congestion, her odd sense that she’s seeing a baby she met when she was nine as he is born into new bodies, her awkward social graces, her habit of peeing in jars when nervous. ![]() But in Miranda July’s new novel, The First Bad Man, Cheryl’s disrupted living situation is the least of her worries. All is well until her boss’ 21 year-old daughter, Clee, moves in. No trip to the kitchen is wasted she doesn’t have time for plates or a mess. Each of her activities is governed by a system. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.Ĭheryl Glickman likes things done a certain way. ![]() ![]() ![]() So I’m thinking he wasn’t meant to be a Ravenel initially, but whatever, he is now. In book #3, literally everyone who runs into Ransom (our hero) immediately marvels over how his eyes are THE EXACT SHADE of Ravenel Blue, and they’re all like, “Dude, I bet you’re totally related to them.” And yet, when Ransom was first introduced in book #2, Helen - supposedly one of his relatives - doesn’t notice his eyes at all. I mean, besides the fact that the original 4 protagonists were clearly Devon, Helen, Pandora, and Cassandra and/or West (possibly together! I WANT TO BELIEVE). This book is pretty clearly not one of the original planned 4. Intrigue is afoot! You’d think they wouldn’t have given the “bombs and assassination” book a hot pink cover, but who am I to question the mysterious ways of Avon Books. If you’ve forgotten the last book (and I wish I could!): After 200 pages of Pandora and Gabriel acting weird and boring me to death, a bomb plot showed up in the last five chapters. If you can stretch your memory all the way back to 2015, you’ll recall that this was supposed to be a 4 book series, but whatever. ![]() Also, the model is pretty, but she just…lacks the “chill lady doctor who casually threatens to castrate men” vibe, you know?Īnyway, so here we are on book 4/6 of the Ravenels series. I think I knew a couple of girls who went to prom in that dress. Dude, the covers of this series just get worse and worse. ![]() |