![]() He lives in Austin, Texas. The Sword and the Shield was named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. He has written several previous books on African American history, including The Sword and The Shield and Stokely: A Life. He is a frequent national commentator on issues of Antiracism, Democracy and Civil Rights. Peniel Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is working on two new book length projects, The Door of Return: A Phenomenology of Blackness and Ramifications of Ramifications: The Art and Philosophy of Toni Morrison.ĭr. ![]() He has published two monographs, An Africana Philosophy of Temporality: Homo Liminalis and Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X. ![]() Michael Sawyer is Associate Professor of African-American Literature and Culture in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Awards in the Public Humanities: Research & Engagement (2022-2023)Īntiracism: Communities + Collaborations presents “Re-Thinking Malcolm X: A Conversation with Peniel Joseph and Michael Sawyer," co-sponsored by the UMD African American Studies Department and the John B.He exhibited the ability to scan the minds and memories of others. Center for Literary and Comparative Studies The fictional character and the main antagonist on the American ABC television series Lost. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lionel Gift, self-satisfied apostle of free-market economics, and "Chairman X," an unreconstructed '60s radical who heads the horticulture department. Budget cuts have been imposed by the state's yahoo governor the faculty will have to clean their own offices, and food services will be taken over by McDonald's, which has no use for the unionized kitchen staff. At an unnamed Midwestern state university familiarly known as Moo U., the academic year 1989-90 is not going well. ![]() ![]() A comic novel proves an agreeable change of pace for the ordinarily serious-minded Smiley ( A Thousand Acres, 1991, etc.). ![]() ![]() ![]() Most importantly, I was seeing the confluence of huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world’s three major reserve currencies big political and social conflicts within countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political, and values gaps in roughly a century and the rising of a new world power (China) to challenge the existing world power (the US) and the existing world order. That gave me principles for dealing with them well.Ī few years ago, I observed the emergence of a number of big developments that hadn’t happened before in my lifetime but had occurred numerous times in history. I learned that to anticipate and handle situations that I had never faced before I needed to study as many analogous historical cases as possible to understand the mechanics of how they transpired. Over the last 50 or so years, in order to handle my responsibilities well, I have needed to understand the most important factors that go into making countries and their markets succeed and fail. How do I know that? Because they always have been. The times ahead will be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes, though similar to many times in history. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Stephen Graham Jones’ new novel, “The Only Good Indians,” which is already a bestseller in its first week of release and is garnering comparisons to Jordan Peele’s horror film “Get Out” as a cultural touchstone, four young Blackfeet men pay a terrible price when they hunt on land reserved for the community’s elders. ![]() Dig deeper, though, and you’ll uncover a trove of themes and collective fears unique to the Indigenous experience in North America. Indigenous people are hunted down for their bone marrow in a dystopian future (“The Marrow Thieves”) and an Inuit shaman faces off against a ravenous black wolf with red eyes (“Those Who Run in the Sky”).įour very different novels from four very different authors, all drawing upon tropes and storylines familiar to horror and dystopian fiction fans everywhere. A mysterious power outage plunges an isolated Anishnaabe community into a violent power struggle (“Moon of the Crusted Snow”). Four Blackfeet men are stalked by the vengeful spirit of an elk they slaughtered 20 years earlier (“The Only Good Indians”). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pan and Tseng first collaborated on the intergenerational drama about a Chinese American teenager in New York City, Face, which premiered twenty years ago in dramatic competition at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Casting will begin this spring, with a shoot planned for Summer 2022. Pan will direct from a screenplay written by Bauer. Golden Bell Award nominee Jackol Kao (Netflix Series’ Green Door), Independent Spirit Award Producer nominee Derrick Tseng (Joe), and Gotham Award nominee and Urbanworld Grand Jury winner Bertha Bay-Sa Pan (Face) will produce the film with the same title, Hope Was Here. The VOICE Creative and Slew Pictures announced the acquisition of feature film development rights to award-winning author Joan Bauer’s Newbery honored bestselling novel, Hope Was Here. Posted by Phil on in All, Books, drama, Film, News | 0 comments ![]() ![]() But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no matter how adorable, Patrick is, honestly, overwhelmed. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. USA Today Bestseller An NPR Book of the Year Finalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer.Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor National Bestseller ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He says of the real case of the serial wife-killer George Joseph Smith: "he obeyed the common dictates of human nature, arguing that what had once succeeded would succeed again, and he paid the penalty of his lack of originality." Poirot is in his element on this case, revealing that human nature is always repetitive. ![]() The plot has peculiar complications and the reader will have to be very astute indeed if he guesses who the criminal is until the last complexity has been unravelled.Īs Laura Thompson writes in her biography of Christie's life, Murder on the Links was "very French." Agatha Christie had always been influenced by French crime writers (specifically, Gaston Leroux, author of The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Phantom of the Opera) and this story shows some marked differences in tone and style from the novels published on either side of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Early life and education īraswell was born in Birmingham, England, and she grew up in a small New England town. She is also known to publish work under the names Tracy Lynn and Celia Thompson. She is best known for The Nine Lives of Chloe King, a series that was adapted as a 2011 television show of the same name. Braswell, often known as Liz Braswell, is an English-born American writer of young adult fiction. JSTOR ( October 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įlizabeth J. ![]() Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful.įind sources: "Elizabeth J. Please help by adding secondary or tertiary sources. This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. ![]() ![]() Instead of reacting on an impulse, learn to harness the power of your response. ![]() It is a strength beyond all measure.Ĭhange: Know that nothing ever stays the same. Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. Paradox: Life is a mystery don’t waste your time trying to figure it out. Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. The old man challenges him in interesting ways and opens his mind into a whole new way of thinking and being. Dan becomes his student and his life is forever changed. One night while wandering about, he meets an old wise man named Socrates. He trains very hard and all he wants is to win. The book is about a young man named Dan who is a very competitive and ambitious gymnast. It’s filled with knowledge and deep insights. ![]() read this book (or at least watch the movie) and live by it. Way of the peaceful warrior by Dan Millman… If you want to know how to live a happy life. ![]() ![]() Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, male/male sexual practices, masturbation, violence. And as the detectives track down the killer, Robert helplessly waits for JD to recall the truth of their relationship and leave him yet again.īut if they survive the investigation, they just might find love in retrograde. Even JD's returning memory seems to conspire against Robert. His life partner, JD, is in critical condition at City of Angels. Robert's best friend, police Captain Gabe Lara, seems to feel that Robert is better off without JD. Amor en Retrogrado Kindle Edition by AM Riley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 8 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 1.99 Read with Our Free App On a raining night in Los Angeles, Robert Lemos gets a call from the ER. Detective Bill Turner, who seems to have too personal an interest in JD, pegs Robert as the primary suspect in the shooting. It's the miracle Robert's been hoping for. He remembers their love, and seems determined to reconcile. As JD slowly regains his memories, he recalls everything except the circumstances of the murder, and the reasons why he left Robert. Robert rushes to JD's bedside to find him recovering from the gunshot wound but suffering from retrograde amnesia. ![]() JD is in critical condition and the man who was with him is dead. ![]() Then one rainy night, he gets a call that his ex has been beaten and shot in a parking lot outside a gay dance club. In the year since JD Ryan, Robert Lemos's life partner, packed his bags and moved out, Robert has been in a painful daze, anesthetizing himself with work. “Genre: LGBT Multicultural Romantic Suspense ![]() |