![]() ![]() Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone, she did what anyone would do: "You go about the great American work of assigning yourself to other gods: yoga, talk radio, neoatheism, CrossFit, cleanses, football, the academy, the American Dream, Beyoncé."Ī curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner's work. She was, she writes, "just naturally reverent," a fact that didn't change when she-much to her own confusion-lost her faith as a teenager. When Jordan Kisner was a child, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America's search for meaning ![]()
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![]() Both later criticised her on social media for her comments about transgender people and feminism in a 2017 Channel 4 interview, saying “a trans woman is a trans woman”.Īt the time, Adichie rejected the claim that she did not believe trans women were women, saying: “Of course they are women but in talking about feminism and gender and all of that, it’s important for us to acknowledge the differences in experience of gender.”Īdichie was subsequently named in the author biography of the first novel by one of the writers. ![]() ![]() The essay goes into her interactions with two unnamed writers who attended Adichie’s Lagos writing workshop. ![]() ![]() Jane was raised by a mother who seemed never to throw anything away-particularly those letters from her precocious daughter. It took ten years in part because of the wealth of materials I had. But I thought the Geographic piece was superficial, and during our ride to the airport, I said as much to Jane-and then blurted out, “You know, somebody should do a real biography of you. The National Geographic had recently published a biographical sketch of her: the woman who had come to fame in the early 1960s with the story of her life among the wild chimpanzees and her startling discovery that chimps make and use tools. Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man began ten years before publication, near the end of 1996, when I was driving my friend Jane Goodall to the airport from a lecture she had given at MIT. Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her website has finally been updated: .Ĭhristina Sng is the two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Dreamscapes and A Collection of Nightmares. Her two latest books are from opposite ends of the poetry spectrum: Elemental Haiku, containing haiku for each element of the periodic table (Ten Speed Press, 2019) and The Sign of the Dragon, an epic fantasy with Chinese and Mongolian elements (JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2020). Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for over twenty years. ![]() ![]() LindaAnn LoSchiavo (The Wapshott Press, 2020).Terese Mason Pierre (Gap Riot Press, 2020)ģrd Place (tie): A Route Obscure and Lonely.Andrea Blythe (Interstellar Flight Press, 2020)ģrd Place (tie): Mary Shelley Makes a Monster.Christina Sng (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2020).Mary Soon Lee (JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2020).Her work has appeared with Apparition Literary Magazine, The Dread Machine, Daily Science Fiction, and other venues. Jordan Hirsch writes speculative fiction and poetry in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Women will identify and commiserate," noted Kirkus Reviews. In this terrifying mystery classic, Edgar Award–winning novelist Celia Fremlin blends the desperation of 1960s domesticity with gripping suspense. But when Mary spies a man in a raincoat, lurking about the neighborhood, she develops a panicky obsession with the stranger that her friends can't soothe - and the frustrations of everyday life suddenly take a sinister turn. ![]() The women's only consolation lies in getting together to vent their frustrations and share the latest gossip. All of the housewives on the block complain about their domineering husbands, their noisy children, and their dreary chores. Her husband is so stingy and critical that he makes the other neighborhood spouses look princely by comparison. But when Mary spies a man in a raincoat lurking about the neighborhood, she develops a panicky obsession with the stranger that her friends can't soothe - and the frustrations of everyday life suddenly take a sinister turn.more ![]() All of the housewives on the block complain about their domineering husbands, their noisy children, and their dreary chores. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Light on Yoga’ is widely called ‘the bible of yoga’ and has served as the sourceīook for generations of yoga students around the world. Iyengar’s unique teaching style, bringing precision and clarity to the practice,Īs well as a mindset of ‘yoga for all’, which has made it into the worldwide phenomenon it is today. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It also introduces pranayamas, bandhas and kriyas, and has a good introductory discussion on yoga.Īppendix 2 Curative Asanas for Various Diseasesī.K.S. Light on Yoga is the fullest and most practical yoga book on the subject, with more than 600 illustrations, explaining in detail how to perform more than 200 yoga postures. This publication is the magnum opus of yoga by BKS Iyengar, first published in English in 1965. Light on Yoga by BKS Iyengar is a large format yoga book that features detailed photography, quality paper and binding. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, there’s also a dizzying number of spinoffs, one-shots, and specials to sift through. On the surface, reading the series in order seems pretty straightforward, since all the issues are collected into 10 numbered volumes. ![]() The Sandman originally ran from 1988 to 1996, spanning 75 issues and winning numerous awards, including the World Fantasy Award and multiple Eisners. If you’re looking to enrich your Sandman experience by reading the original comics, then here’s how to read them in order! Starring Tom Sturridge as Dream, Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death, Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, and Boyd Holbrook as the Corinthian, The Sandman will tell the story of how Morpheus, the embodiment of dreams and the imagination, escapes his imprisonment by a magician and repairs his realm, the Dreaming. Netflix’s highly anticipated new adaptation of The Sandman, Neil Gaiman’s classic comics series chronicling the exploits of Dream of the Endless, is dropping in August. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those of us who have read Isaac Asimov’s book series might think we know the direction of Foundation season 2’s story, but the source material can’t be relied on anymore. ![]() "The monumental adaptation of Foundation chronicles the stories of four crucial individuals transcending space and time as they overcome deadly crises, shifting loyalties and complicated relationships that will ultimately determine the fate of humanity." The Foundation has entered its religious phase, promulgating the Church of Seldon throughout the Outer Reach and inciting the Second Crisis: war with Empire. "Hari, Gaal, and Salvor discover a colony of Mentalics with psionic abilities that threaten to alter psychohistory itself. As the Cleons unravel, a vengeful queen plots to destroy Empire from within. Here's the official plot synopsis for Foundation season 2: "More than a century after the season one finale, tension mounts throughout the galaxy in Foundation season two. (Image credit: Apple TV Plus)įull spoilers follow for Foundation season 1. Salvor Hardin and Gaal Dornick met for the first time in Foundation's season 1 finale. ![]() ![]() ![]() Well-documented observations of similar canids have been made throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, and have been suggested to be surviving wolves. ĭespite long being revered in Japan, the introduction of rabies and canine distemper to Japan led to the decimation of the population, and policies enacted during the Meiji Restoration led to the persecution and eventual total extermination of the subspecies by the early 20th century. Many dog breeds originating from Japan also have Japanese wolf DNA from past hybridization. Phylogenetic evidence indicates that Japanese wolf was the last surviving wild member of the Pleistocene wolf lineage (in contrast to the Hokkaido wolf which belonged to the lineage of the modern day gray wolf), and may have been the closest wild relative of the domestic dog. It was one of two subspecies that were once found in the Japanese archipelago, the other being the Hokkaido wolf. The Japanese wolf ( Japanese: ニホンオオカミ(日本狼), Hepburn: Nihon ōkami, or 山犬, yamainu Canis lupus hodophilax), also known as the Honshū wolf, is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was once endemic to the islands of Honshū, Shikoku and Kyūshū in the Japanese archipelago. ![]() ![]() Their dads hope that they will find common ground and become friends-and possibly, one day, even sisters.īut things soon go off the rails for the girls (and for their dads too), and they find themselves on a summer adventure that neither of them could have predicted. When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and are both being raised by single, gay dads. ![]() Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. ![]() ![]() From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters.Īvery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. ![]() |