![]() ![]() ![]() Criticism also has come from many reviewers, including in The Washington Post and The New York Times. ![]() (AP) - David McCullough is one of the country’s most beloved historians, known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams, acclaimed works on the Brooklyn Bridge and Panama Canal, and for narrating such famous documentaries as Ken Burns’ “The Civil War.”īut with his latest book, “The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West,” McCullough is seeing some of the sharpest criticism of his career.ĭays after the book was released and reached ’s top 20 best-seller list, a new generation of historians, scholars and activists took to social media to accuse McCullough of romanticizing white settlement and downplaying the pain inflicted on Native Americans. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And his captures are not very nice people including the bodyguard, Shepard, with whom he gets handcuffed to. Going about his business and now he’s been kidnapped. But together, as we face betrayal and taking down the worst monster of all, we’re determined that we will be the lucky ones after all. He doesn’t know that Tony isn’t the only one looking for me. He’s determined to protect me, but he doesn’t know all of my secrets. ![]() At first, I’m not sure if I can trust the man, but the more we get to know each other, the more I realize that he’s funny and kind of sweet. I just have to learn how to wield them.Īfter Shepherd gets me away from Tony’s men, I discover that he’s a survivor, a fighter, and the only person who seems willing to help me when it feels like the whole world is against me. And sometimes, those two things can be a bigger weapon than anything in a time like this. ![]() Soon, though, I learn that Shepherd has a heart and a brain. My chances for escape look pretty bleak when I’m handcuffed to Tony’s bodyguard, an intimidating man named Shepherd who apparently loves tight shirts and seems to be amused by making my life miserable. When I’m tossed into the trunk of a car, I realize that what little luck I have has finally run out-especially when I find that Tony, the man who’d abducted me, is planning on using me to get back at my father. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, once Erich acts on his desires, he is immediately removed from the narrative. His kindness is a wonderful tonic for the grim realities of the Turkish prison. Erich acts as the confidant and guide for our protagonist, Bill Hayes (Brad Davis in a BAFTA & Globe nominated debut), who was sent to this Turkish prison for smuggling hashish from Turkey. But Erich (Norbert Weisser) stands out as a light among the considerable darkness. Sympathetic LGBTQ+ characters were tough to come by.Īt first glance, the brutal prison drama Midnight Express would not seem like the place to find a nice gay best friend. Movies were able to actually define characters as LGBTQ+, but they were often villains or would meet a tragic fate. ![]() While sex, swearing and violence began to populate films, the depiction of gay people stayed relatively the same. Once the code was abolished, the late 60s and 70s were able to go wild. Norbert Weisser co-stars as Erich in Alan Pakula's 1978 hit "Midnight Express."Our journeys into classic cinema has allowed us to explore the beginnings of the gay best friend trope and coding during the Hayes Code. A series by Christopher James looking at the 'Gay Best Friend' trope ![]() ![]() ![]() The latter, which also features a young protagonist, shares a common theme with The Spanish Gardener. Best known for writing The Citadel, Cronin also penned The Keys to the Kingdom and The Green Years. Brande quickly grows to resent Jose and inadvertently begins to drive a wedge between his son and himself.Īlthough The Spanish Gardener unfolds like a stage play adaptation, it was based on a 1950 novel by A.J. ![]() The lonely lad needs a friend and finds one in Jose (Dirk Bogarde), a local laborer who has been hired to tend to the garden. Brande wants quality time with his son-but only on his own terms. Nicholas is expected to spend time with his father-but it's difficult when Father travels frequently and is often absorbed in his work. Brande loves his son, but it's a selfish love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her home in Krajanów in a multilingual and multicultural region near the Polish-Czech border serves as the backdrop and inspiration for several novels. Boundaries and border crossings - both physical and psychological - remain vital elements in her work. Since then, she has risen to critical acclaim worldwide, winning Poland’s Nike Award, the Brückepreis for promoting mutual understanding between European nations, and the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature “ for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”. ![]() Tokarczuk’s first collection of poems was published in 1989, and her first novel in 1993. The lecture title, “The Tender Narrator”, elegantly describes Tokarczuk’s unique narrative style: rather like a therapist’s, her approach to writing is marked by love, gentleness, and genuine curiosity about her characters’ lives and motivations.īorn in Sulechów, Poland, in 1962, she originally worked as a clinical psychologist before starting to write - first poetry, and later the novels that brought her international recognition. ![]() ![]() “Tenderness is the art of personifying, sharing feelings, and therefore discovering endless similarities,” Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk said in her Nobel Prize talk in 2018. ![]() ![]() You know it’s bad when cottage cheese is a treat Oy. I am so tired of counting calories and points. We don’t do this typically, but it’s very hot in Texas, and I want ice cream in the worst way, and I can’t have any, because sugar is not my friend, and her website seems well thought out so here is a link to her homemade ice cream recipes. Person named Heather emailed politely and asked if we could link to her ice cream from scratch site. Merits of cover quotes discussed with agent. ![]() Promotional plans discussed and confirmed with agent. Things like “do you think killing him is too disturbing?” and “But we have to have it connect to something” were said. Potential editor for BLOOD HEIR contacted, fingers crossed. ![]() Just how many print books did you order, people? ![]() 250 additional bookplates received and signed.Īdditional 200 bookplates with our own logo signed. ![]() ![]() ![]() These are investigated through a dual case study of the Stuxnet worm deployed against Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility and the rising number of hacking incidents attributed to China. This study addresses these questions by comparing diplomatic responses to two types of cyber-intelligence operations, sabotage and espionage. ![]() Therefore, there is a need for a comprehensive framework for understanding how and why states respond diplomatically to cyber-intelligence operations. In the absence of a common set of rules for addressing cyber-intelligence transgressions, states have exhibited a range of formal and informal responses that appear to be ad hoc and reactive in nature. Yet, it is not easy to respond to an activity that is secretive, difficult to attribute to the responsible party and which is not clearly defined in international law. Cyber-intelligence operations attract significant media exposure and public accusations when they come to light and they often lead to important diplomatic repercussions for the implicated states. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreno-Garcia resides with her family in Vancouver, British Columbia. ![]() She is the publisher of Innsmouth Free Press and a book columnist for the Washington Post. Moreno-Garcia holds a master's degree in science and technology studies from the University of British Columbia. ![]() Her 2020 novel Mexican Gothic won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel, and her 2015 anthology She Walks in Shadows won the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. Born in Mexico and residing in Canada, Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels and anthologies in the genres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. The book was nominated for the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Set in 1920s Mexico, it follows a girl and a god as they navigate their existences and what it means to be human. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey Books, 2019) is a fantasy novel based on a Mayan myth. ![]() ![]() Please register and sign up to receive news about other BPL virtual programming. With defunding and abolition of the carceral system in mind, we will collaborate towards a general roadmap to engage with emergent strategy in our own communities. ![]() Whether you’re already familiar with emergent strategy or you’re seeking new pathways for community change, come discuss and listen! We will talk about everything from afrofuturism and poetry, to nonlinear healing, to the ways we pursue change. ![]() Join us for a book group utilizing adrienne’s own tools for facilitation Mondays in August-8/3, 8/10, 8/17, and 8/24-at 6pm on Zoom. From explorations of biomimicry in nature to the work of Octavia Butler, this book acts as a valuable handbook focused on collaborative community transformation looking towards alternative and utopian futures. 06:00 pm 07:30 pm America/New_York Justice Initiatives Book Club: Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brownĮmergent Strategy, by adrienne maree brown, is an exploration of radical social change, inspired by both science and science fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ralph Fiennes in the 1996 film adapation of The English Patient. ![]() Because what actually turned up, of course, was The English Patient: 300-plus pages about four people inhabiting the mined rooms of a remote Italian villa at the end of the second world war four very different people who meet in damaged solitude, who talk (there are a lot of night conversations), who love, whose histories, revealed in vivid flashes, become a taut, outraged meditation on the idea of war, of nationalism and of prejudice a meditation that slips between spies and explorers, Suffolk and the Egyptian desert the Punjab and Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, as easily as the sapper, Kip, slips into bomb craters to defuse bombs. I thought it might be a brief novella – all dialogue, European-style, big type.” “I did not know at first where it was taking place, or who the two characters were. “It began with a small night conversation between a burned patient and a nurse,” he said. He found a lectern and, white head bowed, reached into his pocket for a small piece of paper. O n Sunday night, Michael Ondaatje stepped on to the wide stage of the Royal Festival Hall in London. ![]() |