![]() Nancy Mitford was particularly well-equipped to write about Louis XIV: She spent much of her adult life in France and possessed a sharp eye for detail. ![]() No historian writing in English has given a better pen-picture of Versailles in its heyday. Nancy Mitford excels in depicting both the brilliant romantic showcase and the recessed world of power. History, like the kingdom of heaven, has many mansions, Nancy Mitford's being, I suggest, a ravishingly pretty one, where anyone would be happy to spend time-and many have. ![]() The splendid century had its seamy side, and her racy narrative alternates between the glory and the grime, the ermine and the vermin. interest is focused on the human beings whose hopes, frustrations, and tragedies are hidden behind the stiff brocade of the period. Irreverently lifts the skirts of the dolls of Versailles and rummages about underneath, exposing one gem of irresistible detail after another. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Sen is the adjunct professor of population and international health at the School of Public Health and is based in the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies in Cambridge. “All my life I’ve been concerned with the underside of economics.” “I thought that was the best aspect of ,” Sen said. Sen said he was happy that the prize will call attention to welfare economics and to the situation of society’s poor. “I’ve been giving more interviews today than I ever have in my life.” “It turned out it wasn’t bad news it was very good news,” Sen said. When the phone rang that early, he said, he feared it was bad news. Sen said he was awakened early Wednesday morning by a phone call. He has developed new ways to predict and fight famine as well as ways to measure poverty, so that more effective social programs can be designed. Sen, 64, has done extensive work on the economics of poverty. Sen, Lamont University Professor Emeritus and a current adjunct and visiting professor at Harvard, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics Wednesday “for his contributions to welfare economics.” ![]() Sen, who, 55 years later, won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on poverty and famine. Living through it was a 9-year-old boy named Amartya K. Three million people died in India’s 1943 Bengal famine. ![]() ![]() ![]() From there, Kvothe manages to secure a spot at a magical university, the seat of all accumulated knowledge and a place where he might find more information about the Chandrian, the mysterious group of beings who killed his family. Narrated by the older Kvothe to Chronicler, we learn of Kvothe’s tragic childhood as an orphan, beggar, and pickpocket following the murder of his family. This is where the second storyline comes in. Kvothe tells Chronicler his story will take three days to tell, hence the planned trilogy. When our tale begins, times are not good and serious danger is starting to affect the village. The first book, Day One, sees Kvothe beginning to tell his story to Chronicler, a traveling collector of stories. ![]() There is the frame tale, in which our mysterious 20-something protagonist is living incognito as a small town innkeeper. The Name of the Wind is “Day One” of The Kingkiller Chronicle series, telling the story of musican/magician Kvothe in two separate timelines. ![]() ![]() ![]() It means that you are evolving and growing, and that's something to be celebrated, not criticized. These changes reflect your growth and strength, and you should be proud of every step you take.Īnd if someone says, "you've changed," remember that this is not necessarily bad. But never let anyone make you feel guilty or ashamed for making positive changes in your life. ![]() ![]() It's okay to feel scared or uncertain, and it's okay to stumble along the way. Whether it's getting in shape, leaving a toxic relationship, or starting a new career, you are taking control of your life and creating a better future for yourself. It can be disheartening when people you thought had your back are suddenly critical or unsupportive of your journey.īut let me tell you something: change is hard, and it takes a lot of courage and determination to make lasting improvements in your life. I know from personal experience how difficult it can be to make positive changes in your life, especially when those around you are not supportive. Welcome to today's episode of our podcast, where we will discuss a topic that hits close to home for many of us: not worrying about people saying "you've changed" when you're making better choices for your life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The one I met was named Liz,” Soufan replies with a shrug. “I thought you said his girlfriend’s name was Liz,” says Heather. ![]() The downtown bistro, jam-packed with extras in late-’90s business attire, was standing in for circa-2000 era Elaine’s, the legendary Upper East Side celebrity haunt and one of O’Neill’s favorite watering holes.ĭaniels, in character as O’Neill, alternates between taking swigs of beer and planting sloppy kisses on Sheri (Katie Finneran), one of his numerous love interests, who is woozily gulping a fruity pink cocktail.Īcross the room, Ali Soufan, played by French Algerian actor Tahar Rahim, and his girlfriend, Heather (Ella Rae Peck) eye the debauched scene warily. On a clammy morning last August, Jeff Daniels, in slicked-back hair and a crisp suit, stands at the end of the smoky, sweltering bar at Minetta Tavern. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was first published in 1984 and has the immediacy of history written on the hoof while that history is still happening. ![]() If you want to go back, way back, back to the old skool, then Rap Attack by the English writer and musician David Toop is the place to start. And perhaps that’s why I love them.ĭavid Toop, The Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop Their relation to hip hop is much like my own-simultaneously “in” (I started and, for 15 years, ran the hip hop label Big Dada Recordings) and “out” (I’m a white, middle class guy from England). This, then, is a list of books sitting at the edge of any putative “Best Of,” books that never quite belong, and whose lack of belonging is exactly what makes them work. ![]() You’d start with the likes of Nelson George and Greg Tate, shimmy through Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and Dan Charnas’s The Big Payback, stop off with Tricia Rose and Bakari Kitwana, take in some of the best ghosted memoirs of the stars (probably Rza’s Tao of Wu and Jay-Z’s Decoded), before finishing up with more recent works like Hanif Abduraqqib’s brilliant Go Ahead In The Rain, or devoting yourself to inventory with the Ego Trip Book of Rap Lists.īut hip hop is a machine for undermining orthodoxy, so any canon is also automatically suspect, or ripe to be torn apart and reconfigured-and that’s what makes it such a vital force. ![]() About 20 years later than you would’ve expected, hip hop literature (and literature about hip hop) is finally developing something like a canon. ![]() ![]() He was a polemicist rather than an analyst or political thinker – his headteacher at the Leys school in Cambridge presciently forecast a future as a pamphleteer – and, like all the best polemicists, brought to his work outstanding skills of reporting and observation. He was unrelenting in his support for the Palestinian cause and his excoriation of America's projections of power in Asia and Latin America. His targets were the abusers of power, particularly Henry Kissinger (whom he tried to bring to trial for his role in bombing Cambodia and overthrowing the Allende regime in Chile) and Bill Clinton. Nobody else spoke with such confidence and passion for what Americans called "liberalism" and Hitchens (regarding "liberal" as too "evasive") called "socialism". ![]() For most of his career, Christopher Hitchens, who has died of oesophageal cancer aged 62, was the left's biggest journalistic star, writing and broadcasting with wit, style and originality in a period when such qualities were in short supply among those of similar political persuasion. ![]() ![]() ![]() The morning after a one-night stand, protagonist Yaya wakes up with the sheets soaked in blood, and assumes her period has come early and unexpectedly. This is a gnarly book about bodily autonomy, the American healthcare system, and self-control. Read More: Essential Horror Novels (Not by Stephen King)Īmerican transgender author Hailey Piper has penned an incredible number of horror stories in her time, and her first horror novel was Queen of Teeth. The authors covered here are all imaginative, daring writers who are bringing the queer experience to the world of horror, and with that come unique terrors and monsters.įear is different for everyone, and the voices of gay and trans writers and characters bring forth new fears and ways of exploring them.Īnd so, here are the best queer horror books out there right now, written by authors who are breathing new life into the horror genre. ![]() It Came From The Closet, Edited by Joe Vallese.The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Eric LaRocca.Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca. ![]() The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay.Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield.Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. 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Having read an early excerpt of Last Days in the form of a short run glossy pamphlet titled The Brotherhood of Mutilation years ago, I remember feeling, in the digestion of that fragment, as if I'd stumbled through a door in my home I hadn't noticed was always there, leading to another version of the world that seemed like ours but also wasn't. ![]() There's a touch of the time-shifting of Lost Highway in here, and the colors of Suspiria, and the soundtrack of Burzum's Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, and a whole other strange register which throughout it all just seems like a calm story dictated to you by a stranger in your sleep.ģ. Trying to describe the transitioning effects of how Evenson details the acid-like reconfiguring of Rudd's person in the presence of this brother, who may or may not actually exist, we begin to think, is nearly impossible. The discovery comes in the midst of Rudd's parallel uncovering of the existence of a half-brother, with whom his relationship seems to blossom alongside their mutual fascination with the crime. ![]() The novel leads us through the increasingly surreal experience of a young man, Rudd, who becomes obsessed with his research of a murder committed by the grandson of former LDS president Brigham Young. ![]() The Open Curtain might be the author's most well known work, one I've read more than five times. ![]() |