![]() ![]() That becomes the center to the kind of work that I am most interested in,” Weems explained to African American studies and art history professor Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Studio Museum in Harlem Director Thelma Golden. “ Constructing History has so much to do with the orchestrations of reality in a very particular kind of way. We’ve stumbled upon a set, one that mixes performance and longing, fact and fiction, in ways that deconstruct the stories we tell about ourselves. A camera track circles the platform like a mote, while a dolly with a tripod and camera appears to the right, in the middle of capturing the three figures in its slow 360-degree orbit. It could be a family portrait, though the scene is made odd by their surroundings. A young child, dressed in a glowing white dress, crouches near on the floor, her arms and head positioned to rest on one of the women’s laps. In “Mourning,” a black and white photograph from artist Carrie Mae Weems’s 2008 series Constructing History, two women dressed in black sit next to each other on wooden chairs. Constructing History series (2008) (© Carrie Mae Weems,Ĭourtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY) ![]()
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![]() LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION ![]() Richly reported and ultimately uplifting, Palaces for the People offers a blueprint for bridging our seemingly unbridgeable divides. Interweaving his own research with examples from around the globe, Klinenberg shows how “social infrastructure” is helping to solve some of our most pressing societal challenges. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, churches, and parks where crucial connections are formed. In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. ![]() Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together and find common purpose. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. We are living in a time of deep divisions. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() At the beginning of The Sundial (1958), the eccentric Halloran clan, gathered at the family manse for a funeral, becomes convinced that the world is about to end and that only those who remain in the house shall be saved. The Bird's Nest (1954) has not one but four protagonists: the shy, demure young Elizabeth and, revealed with a series of surprising twists, her other, multiple personalities. ![]() In Hangsaman (1951)-inspired by the real-life disappearance of a Bennington College sophomore-the precocious but lonely Natalie Waite grows increasingly dependent on an imaginary friend. Her haunting debut tale The Road Through the Wall (1948) explores the secret desires, petty hatreds, and ultimate terrors that lurk beneath the picture-perfect domesticities of a suburban California neighborhood. Now, Jackson's award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin gathers the subtle, chilling, hypnotic novels with which she began her unique career. Shirley Jackson-the beloved author of The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle-is more and more being recognized as one of the finest writers of the American gothic tradition, a true heir of Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale-and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors. Mausties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing take of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of family life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale : and Here My Troubles Began Art Spiegelman Pantheon Books, 1991 - Adventure and adventurers - 135 pages 93 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for. This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. ![]() Volumes I and II of the book Maus: A Survivors Tale appeared in 1986. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. Art Spiegelman first published parts of MAUS in the magazine Raw between 1980-1991. The first ever graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a frank and visceral look at the Holocaust through his father’s eyes. "Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Mausintroduced readers to Vladek Spieglman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (There's further, sad proof when Harry's dog Fred, accidentally locked in the playhouse for a few minutes, dies of starvation.) But why does time go faster inside the playhouse? Because the star-rock beneath the playhouse is a "singularity" (a.k.a. and emerges with five-o'clock shadow, sure that a whole day has passed!! The explanation? "Time goes faster in there," of course. Could any of these discoveries be connected to nasty local rumors-involving disappearing animals-about the late Uncle Ambrose? They could indeed-especially when freshly shaved Barry gets locked in the playhouse for a few seconds. ![]() And soon the boys are prowling around Uncle Ambrose's creepy manse, viewing his enormous collection of odd animal-skeletons ("Hey! This thing has six legs!"), and finding the key to the strange "playhouse" out in the back yard. So, when the Krasner family inherits an old house in Illinois from a virtually forgotten great-uncle, Barry immediately comes up with a plan for the twins to spend two weeks checking out this new acquisition. Harry and Barry Krasner of Boston are 16-year-old identical twins Barry is domineering, boastful, and hates being a twin Harry (the narrator) is timid, thoughtful, and-despite everything-devoted to Barry. More wonderful weirdness from the author of Interstellar Pig and The Green Futures of Tycho. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Firpo's Bar in Calcutta he met and became friendly with another future novelist, Paul Scott, who later used elements of Green's character for the figure of Sergeant Guy Perron in The Raj Quartet. During World War II he served with the Royal Air Force in Burma. He has also contributed poems to many journals, including to Arion and the Southern Humanities Review. He is the author of a translation of the Satires of the Roman poet Juvenal, now in its third edition. Green's most famous books are Alexander of Macedon, a historical biography first issued in 1970, then in a revised and expanded edition in 1974, which was first published in the United States in 1991 his Alexander to Actium, a general account of the Hellenistic Age, and other works. Peter Morris Green (born 22 December 1924) is a British classical scholar and novelist noted for his works on the Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age of ancient history, generally regarded as spanning the era from the death of Alexander in 323 BC up to either the date of the Battle of Actium or the death of Augustus in 14 AD. JSTOR ( May 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful.įind sources: "Peter Green" historian – news This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. ![]() ![]() His most famous work, Leviathan, speaks in-depth about this. Thomas Hobbes and his writing strongly advocated for a system of government that involves a strong central figure. ![]() ![]() The lack of a strong authority among the boys of Lord of the Flies leads them to make many savage and uncivilized decisions, which model the concepts of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. There is nearly no better model of his ideologies than William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a story about a group of deserted English boys who resort to savagery and brutality. ![]() “Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in a condition which is called war…” Thomas Hobbes’ concept of bellum omnium contra omnes, or “war of all against all”, states that people will inherently result to war and warlike traits. ![]() ![]() ![]() The spare but vivid prose, lilting dialogue, and skilled storytelling brings this tragedy to life the powerful sense of community Rhodes evokes in the Ninth Ward prior to the storm makes the devastation and the hardships Lanesha endures all the more powerful. The story becomes gripping as the waters rise and Lanesha, with help from a young neighbor and her mother’s ghostly presence, finds a way to keep body and soul together. Lanesha finds strength in Mama Ya-Ya’s constant love and axioms of affection and reassurance (“When the time’s right. Living in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Lanesha is viewed as an unusual child (she was born with a caul and is able to see ghosts) and is ostracized at school. Lanesha lives with Mama Ya-Ya, an 82-year-old seer and midwife who delivered Lanesha and has cared for her since her teenage mother died in childbirth. Jewell is the Piper Endowed Chair and founding artistic director of the Virginia G. A good title for discussion when balanced with historical accounts of Katrina and her aftermath. Unfortunately, though, romanticized depictions such as this one threaten to undermine our collective sense of the true plight of pre- and post-Katrina Ninth Ward residents. ![]() ![]() Her books have won awards such as the American Book Award and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for Literary Excellence. Rhodes’s characters are likable and her story gripping. Katrina and the subsequent flooding through the eyes of resourceful 12-year-old Lanesha. Jewell Parker Rhodes is an award-winning author of adult literature. With a mix of magical and gritty realism, Rhodes’s (Voodoo Dreams) first novel for young readers imagines Hurricane ![]() ![]() “High-octane fantasy.a great swashbuckling yarn of a novel.” (Richard Morgan) If you have read it, you should probably read it again.” (Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times best-selling author of The Name of the Wind) “Right now, in the full flush of a second reading, I think The Lies of Locke Lamora is probably in my top ten favorite books ever. ![]() “Fresh, original, and engrossing.gorgeously realized.” (George R. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game - or die trying. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler. ![]() ![]() But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. “Remarkable.Scott Lynch’s first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, exports the suspense and wit of a cleverly constructed crime caper into an exotic realm of fantasy, and the result is engagingly entertaining.” ( The Times, London)Īn orphan’s life is harsh - and often short - in the mysterious island city of Camorr. ![]() ![]() Classics is proudly republishing this novel now in a new edition complete with a biography of the author from “Encyclopædia Britannica” (1922). ![]() Other notable works by this author include: “Monsieur Beaucaire” (1900), “The Turmoil” (1915), and “The Magnificent Ambersons” (1918). A charming tale of youth reminiscent of Mark Twain's “Huckleberry Finn” that will not disappoint fans of Tarkington's wonderful work. ![]() It is a remake of the 1924 Rudolph Valentino silent film of the same name Monsieur Beaucaire. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Booth Tarkington. Following on from his earlier novels “Penrod” (1914) and “Penrod and Sam” (1916), "Penrod Jashber" continues the story of the eponymous 11-year-old boy living in a small city in the Midwest who has now developed a penchant for solving mysteries. Monsieur Beaucaire is a 1946 comedy film starring Bob Hope as the title character, the barber of King Louis XV of France. First published in 1929, Tarkington's novel “Penrod Jashber” is the third installment to "The Penrod Series". Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. ![]() |