![]() Do we really need to know that Marlon Brando and J Edgar Hoover were lovers? Or that Richard Nixon sired a love child in 1960 who later briefly married Britney Spears? And this thing about Prince Harry - well, I can never look at a koala bear in quite the same way again. It's good that biography isn't hagiography, and if you go round censoring the lurid aspects of your subject you're now engaged in PR which is a whole other thing. ![]() ![]() LADY GAGA AND PRINCE HARRY - FINALLY THE TRUTH With access to her tape recordings - and her revelatory unfinished manuscript - Clarke is able to tell Judy's story as she herself might have told it. Towards the end of her life, Garland tried to tell her own story. Combining a novelist's skill and a movie director's eye, Clarke re-creates the golden age of Hollywood with cinematic Louis B Mayer, the patriarch of MGM sexy Lana Turner, Judy's friend and idol, who had a habit of trying to snatch away any man Judy expressed interest in clarinettist Artie Shaw, handsome Tyrone Power boy genius Orson Welles and brilliant director Vincente Minnelli, who fathered her first child, Liza. ![]() To tell her story, Gerald Clarke took ten years, travelled thousands of miles across two continents, conducted hundreds of interviews, and combed through mountains of documents, many of which were unavailable to other biographers. The woman of half a dozen comebacks and a hundred heartbreaks. Judy Garland, the girl with the pigtails in THE WIZARD OF OZ, was an entertainer of almost magical power. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The rules are vaguely BRP-based and very detailed and gritty with a lot of bookkeeping, and a common complaint is that combat resolution takes too much time, although later editions has made the rules much more stream-lined and introduced various options for simplifying stuff. This has over the years resulted in a very detailed and complex setting that can't quite decide whether it wants to be down-to-earth or High Fantasy in practice, it's a mix of both, somewhat like A Song of Ice and Fire. Unlike Dungeons & Dragons Eon relies heavily on world description and story hooks rather than rule expansions, and there are very little "crunch" in all but the core books. There is no good or evil, there are just sides. Every race, nation, and individual described has a perfectly reasonable explanation for what they do, and no one is ever in it For the Evulz. Eon is a Swedish fantasy RPG set in the world of Mundana, which is essentially a Standard Fantasy Setting, but with a surprising amount of nuances. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jon Favreau served as Barack Obama’s head speechwriter from 2005-2013. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C. He previously worked at The Washington Post and the San Jose Mercury News. ![]() Before joining themagazine in 2012, Leibovich covered national politics in the Times’ Washington bureau. He recently joined The Atlantic, after a 10-year stint as the chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of four books, including the New York Times best-seller This Town, about the political culture of twenty-first-century Washington, D.C. ![]() Mark Leibovich is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for profile writing. “Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission.”įrom the author of the New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington’s “swamp” into a gold-plated hot tub-and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult. Mark Leibovich in conversation with Jon FavreauĪt Live Talks Los Angeles discussing his book, This video was taped on stage with a live audience on July 19, 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() McFadden on Zora Neale Hurston, Salamishah Tillet on Anita Hill, and Kiese Laymon (“Cotton 1804-1809”) deftly tie the personal to the historical. ![]() Board of Education, the Black Power movement, the war on drugs, Hurricane Katrina, voter suppression, and other staples of Black American history and experience. The brief but powerful essays in between feature lesser-known people, places, ideas, and events as well as fresh, closer looks at the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the Harlem Renaissance, Brown v. The book ends with Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza reflecting on the years between Aug. ![]() 20, 1619-the symbolic birthdate of African America when “twenty ‘Negroes’ stepped off the ship White Lion in Jamestown, Virginia”-to Aug. In the opening essay, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer-winning creator of The 1619 Project, examines the period from Aug. This engrossing collection is divided into 10 parts, each covering 40 years, and each part ends with a poem that captures the essence of the preceding essays. In order to tell the story of Black America, acclaimed scholar Kendi and award-winning historian Blain bring together 80 Black “historians, journalists, activists, philosophers, novelists, political analysts, lawyers, anthropologists, curators, theologians, sociologists, essayists, economists, educators, and cultural critics” and 10 poets. A compendium of essays and poems chronicling 400 years of Black American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grace Breive is strong and independent because she has to be. I n Highland Echos, Bram Sutherland has been left without a bride. His desire for revenge is strong but he is beguiled by his captive.Ĭan he forget his stubborn hatred long enough to listen to the secret she has kept for so long? And once he knows the truth, can he show her she is not alone and forsaken? In the end, is he strong enough to fight the combined hostilities and age-old grudges that demand he give her up? Years later, as laird of Clan MacKay, he gets his chance when he captures Lady Fiona MacNicol. He was lucky to escape alive, and vows to have revenge. He will never forget how he was treated by Bhaltair MacNicol-the acting head of Clan MacNicol. Hatred lives and breathes between medieval clans who often don’t remember why feuds began in the shadowed past. ![]() In Highland Revenge, Fiona’s fate is forever changed when her guards venture with her onto a rival clan’s land while escorting her to her betrothed Bram Sutherland.ĭoes he hate her clan enough to visit his vengeance on her? Or will he listen to her secret and his own heart’s yearning? ![]() ![]() ![]() He uses histories behind familiar food items - where they come from, how they are cooked and consumed, what they mean to different cultures - to explore economic theory. In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a more interesting and balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible formįor decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. ![]() ![]() Jung for their patient aid, and to Signor Alessandro Luzio and many other That he has received from Miss Grace Norton, at whose suggestion his task The translator desires to express his thanks for the friendly encouragement Sources Castiglione derived material are referred to Professor Vittorio Cian’s Students who may wish to learn from what Greek and Latin Reminded of what all may have known but few are able to remember with Perhaps no one will regard it as inopportune to be ![]() Obscure passages and to relieve the reader from the tedium of searching inīooks of reference. The notes that he offers are intended to explain The letter of the Italian text are merely verbal, and were deemed needful to The few deviations that the present translator has ventured to make from Man, and will reward study so long as the past shall continue to instruct the His pages will lack interest only when mankind ceases to be interesting to Castiglione gives utterance to the finest aspirations of his time. ![]() Of the ideal than of the actual, and that men’s ideals are loftier than their ![]() To understand this, we must remember that art is more the expression The art of the Italian Renaissance delights us by its delicate and gentleīeauty, and yet we know that life during this period was often gross and Readers, seem to furnish sufficient reason for a new translation. Italian literature, and the fact that it is almost inaccessible to English The popularity long enjoyed by this old book, the place that it holds in ![]() ![]() ![]() Not even this magnificent instrument is enough to satisfy what ails Nasser Ali, however, and he takes to his bed, waiting for death to carry him off. To find a replacement, he travels with his pestiferous young son up a mountain to reach an antique dealer, who gives them both opium and claims to have Mozart’s own Stradivarius for sale. He blames his wife ( Maria De Medeiros) for breaking his prized violin during a quarrel. The entire film is a search backwards in time for the reason for Nasser Ali’s drastic decision. ![]() PHOTOS: Venice Film Festival: 10 Movies to Know ![]() ![]() Both of these books made him realize just how important it was to be honest with yourself and others around you. ![]() The two books that had an impact on Gandhi were Harishchandra and Shravana Pitrabhakti Nataka. In addition to that, he also explains how he felt bad for his actions later on in life and decided not to steal again. He also talks about stealing from a shopkeeper when he was young. The first part of the book is about Gandhi’s childhood, including his experiments with meat eating and smoking. In addition, he wants to discuss spiritual and moral matters rather than political ones. However, he decides to write about his experiments with truth in life through this book. ![]() He wonders if writing an autobiography is something that Easterners do, since it’s a Western practice. Gandhi has written this book at the request of his friend Jeramdas who is a fellow prisoner. ![]() Chapters XXIX–XLIII of Part V were translated by Desai’s friend Pyarelal Nayyar Introduction A cheaper English version is needed so that more people can read about Gandhi’s philosophy and learn how to apply his ideas to their life. 50,000 copies had been sold but since it wasn’t translated into English it prevented Indians from purchasing it. There were five editions by the time this preface was written. The book was originally published in two volumes, the first in 1927 and second in 1929. 1-Page Summary of The Story Of My Experiments With Truth Translator’s preface ![]() ![]() ![]() Berit is unable to conceive, and the lake anchors her isolated life, testing the limits of her endurance and spirit. In 1902, Berit and Gunnar, a Norwegian fishing couple, also live on the lake. ![]() ![]() As she and her family confront the hardship of living near the “big water,” her psyche and her world edge toward irreversible change. In 1622, Grey Rabbit-an Ojibwe woman, a mother and wife-struggles to understand a dream-life that has taken on fearful dimensions. The Long-Shining Waters gives us three stories whose characters are separated by centuries and circumstance, yet connected across time by a shared geography. Lake Superior, the north country, the great fresh-water expanse. ![]() |