In his hands, World War I becomes a clash not only of empires and armies, but of individuals: king and Kaiser, warriors and pacifists, coal miners an "In this deeply moving history of the so-called Great War, those opposing its mindless folly receive equal billing with the politicians, generals, and propagandists obdurately insisting on its perpetuation. Bacevich, author of "Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War " "Adam Hochschild is the rare historian who fuses deep scholarship with novelistic flair. Implicit in Adam Hochschild's account is this chilling warning: once governments become captive of wars they purport to control, they turn next on their own people." -Andrew J. Exemplary in all respects."-Jonathan Yardley, "Washington Post " "In this deeply moving history of the so-called Great War, those opposing its mindless folly receive equal billing with the politicians, generals, and propagandists obdurately insisting on its perpetuation. "This is a book to make one feel deeply and painfully, and also to think hard."-Christopher Hitchens, "New York Times Book Review" "Hochschild brings fresh drama to the story, and explores it in provocative ways.
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I ran my finger over his face, saying his amazing cheekbones were so prominent because Koreans are direct descendants of the Mongols.” I’m not kidding.Īnd not in the least, Farr herself is a white woman writing about race.īut ultimately, she won me over. The rest of that section explains her husband-to-be’s good looks in the following way: “Shoulders as wide as his reside only above the Mekong because his ancestors had to work the land without the help of a river. Then there’s the cringe-worthy manner in which she describes her first encounter with her husband: from across the dance floor at a wedding, she beckons to him with one finger, while pulling her eye into a slant with another. Why then this photo? Two hundred eighty pages later, I still couldn’t figure it out. It is obviously not Farr Farr, as she describes herself numerous times in the book, is a brunette with olive skin. First of all, there is the tasteless and unnecessary cover photo: A naked, fair-skinned blonde woman is lying on her back, legs up and crossed at the ankles, hands covering her breasts. There is much in Diane Farr’s memoir Kissing Outside the Lines to put one off. Green’s involvement in a campus protest against unfair dismissals of gay colleagues throws her into deeper shambles. Having centered her life on her husband and child, her daughter’s definition of family is not one she can accept. Ideally, a steady income and, most importantly, a good husband with whom to start a family.īut when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-jin’s debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter’s queer relationship. Luckily for Evie, her secret immunity to magic helps her escape the massacre.įorced into hiding to survive, she falls in with a gladiator troupe. When her cousin Vasilia, the crown princess, assassinates her mother the queen and takes the throne by force, Evie is also attacked, along with the rest of the royal family. Seventeenth in line for the throne, Evie is nothing more than a ceremonial fixture, overlooked and mostly forgotten.īut dark forces are at work inside the palace. In a realm where one’s magical power determines one’s worth, Lady Everleigh’s lack of obvious ability relegates her to the shadows of the royal court of Bellona, a kingdom steeped in gladiator tradition. The thrilling first novel in the Crown of Shards epic fantasy series combines magic, murder, and adventure when an unlikely member of the royal family suddenly becomes a contender in a clash for the crown. Published by Harper Voyager on October 2, 2018 This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. In this deeply researched and intimate book, Ehrlich illuminates his subject’s life and work, hailing him as a “complicated and monumental man” who “produced the first clear evidence that the brain is composed of individual cells, later termed neurons, fundamentally the same as those that make up the rest of the living world.” The author delves deep, building on his research for his previous book, The Dreams of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Inspired by drawing and photography, he created innumerable images of objects he viewed through his microscope, and his legacy as a pioneering neuroscientist is entwined with his artistic achievements, which include drawings of neurons and other cells that are frequently displayed in major museums. Against this backdrop, Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) devoted himself passionately to the study of microscopic structures that comprise living tissue. In the late 1800s, Europe was rippling with activity in science, art, and politics. An in-depth biography of the Nobel laureate who “is considered the founder of modern neuroscience.” “Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact: you remember first of all that reason did not abandon you during the whole course of your dream you even remember that you acted extremely cleverly and logically for that whole long, long time when you were surrounded by murderers, when they were being clever with you, concealed their intentions, treated you in a friendly way, though they already had their weapons ready and were only waiting for some sort of sign you remember how cleverly you finally deceived them, hid from them then you realize that they know your whole deception by heart and merely do not show you that they know where you are hiding but you are clever and deceive them again-all that you remember clearly. Like Karlie, Kamilaroi man Corey Tutt is a keen science communicator. The Gomeroi yinarr astrophysicist is currently doing a PhD in astronomy at the Australian National University.Ĭorey Tutt brought Deadly Science to the ABC Heywire summit as one of the 2020 Trailblazers. Karlie Alinta Noon went on to become the first Indigenous student to obtain a Masters of Astronomy and Advanced Astrophysics in Australia. It was a crushing moment for Karlie, who was working five jobs to support herself through university and already struggling to fit into a system built for others. Karlie says "Vegemite village" is a racial slur used to describe the Aboriginal community in Tamworth. "He said in front of the whole class, 'Oh… you went to that school … that's in Vegemite village,'" Karlie recalls. His enthusiasm quickly faded into disappointment. Karlie, feeling homesick, was relieved to meet someone from her hometown.īut things took a turn for the worse when the professor found out where she attended high school. She'd walked into a lecture theatre, and almost immediately the professor realised excitedly that like him, Karlie was also from Tamworth. Some of Karlie Noon's fondest memories as a budding scientist were at university - but it was also the scene of one of her most devastating moments. In America, it would be the reservation of a Native American tribe.) The actual location is not specific, but the reserve is many miles from the nearest developed town. (Since Rice is Canadian, some of his terms might be unfamiliar. That location is the reserve for a First Nations band in northern Canada. But the story, one of survival, is terrifically powerful, a familiar narrative told in an unfamiliar location. It’s a simply written book, almost leaning to YA in its slow, deliberate sentences and plain vocabulary. The main character, Evan, is developed only to the extent he must be, and the language forgoes decoration and lyricism almost entirely. The remote community must fend for itself, and build a new way of life from the remains of the old. No one knows why, and no one arrives to explain. The trucks delivering groceries don’t come. First phones go down, and then TV and radio, and then power. Rice isolates and stretches this moment, setting his novel in a remote community and giving the story several months to unfold. It’s not a preface to apocalypse, and it’s not the postscript it takes place during the moment in which a society realizes that one kind of life is over, and another kind of life is going to be the norm. Moon of the Crusted Snow is a book on the cusp. This was an upbringing that weighed heavily on his work later on, as he spent his formative years taking in the sights and sounds of the world around him. With a cinematic adaptation of his 2008 novel ‘The Secret Scripture’, he’s become a firm fixture on the literary scene, and an institution in his own right.īorn in 1955 on the 5th of July, he was born and raised in the city of Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. Known for his beginnings in poetry as well, he’s a highly versatile writer, with an extremely strong and recognizable voice, one which stands out among his peers and contemporaries. An Irish writer, Sebastian Barry is both a playwright and a novelist by trade, with a number of different works under his belt, and has established a name for himself over the years as one of the most critically well regarded authors of his generation. In July 2018, 30 illustrations from Blake’s personal collection were offered in a dedicated session in our Valuable Books and Manuscripts sale in London, while a further 148 were offered in an online-only auction, Quentin Blake: A Retrospective. The roughs are the rehearsals, in a sense, and then you have to go on and do it.’ When I’m doing the roughs, I’m thinking I am that person. ‘I’ve read the book like a book, then I read it looking for these moments. ‘When I start work on a book I do roughs of everything I want to draw in it so that I get a sense of how the book goes,’ he says, describing his creative process. |