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Spotlight on the biographer of the powerful Koch family.
From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions, the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to the Second World War, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. They appeared as content, with visions of tottering towers and scraps of paper; and also as form, in the shapes of broken poetics. But from the outbreak of the Second World War what had been an aesthetic mode began to resemble a proleptic template. During that conflict many modernist writers - such as Graham Greene, Louis MacNeice, David Jones, J. F. Hendry, Elizabeth Bowen, T. S. Eliot and Rose Macaulay - engaged with devastated cityscapes and the altered lives of a nation at war. To understand the potency of the bombsites, both in the Second World War and after, Reading the Ruins brings together poetry, novels and short stories, as well as film and visual art. | Author: Leo Mellor | Publisher: Cambridge University Press | Publication Date: June 03, 2021 | Number of Pages: 256 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 1107534437 | ISBN-13: 9781107534438
Here’s some books that I’m reading this summer. Check them out and let me know what I should be reading next. With so many books being banned across the country, the Digital Public Library of America…
Balance the animals in a teetering, tottering tower…but will your stack stick the landing? We read Chicken Cheeks, written by Michael Ian Black, and illustrated by Kevin Hawkes (Simon & S…
A book of radical sadness
These overrated literary classics have had more than enough time in the sun. It's time to spend our time with some others!
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Any politician who is overfunding law and order, border security, and wars on terror—and underfunding medical research—is not keeping us safe.
At the age of 24, Amaryllis Fox was fast-tracked to undergo advanced operations training within the CIA. That meant disappearing for six months on a top-secret base and bidding farewell to anything resembling a normal life.
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What Hannah Arendt’s philosophy can teach us about Trump, Brexit, and social isolation.
T. Kingfisher's A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking was a fantastically fun read. I was thrilled with the easy worldbuilding, wonderful characters, and hero, the 14-year-old Mona, the Wizard of…
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Behrouz Boochani spent almost five years typing passages of his book into a mobile phone. The result resists classification
The writer and farmer’s impassioned arguments on farming, technology, and the urban-rural divide have taken on a new urgency.
I know, I know, it’s December, we’re all contractually obligated to tally up the Best Books of the Year That Was—and don’t worry, we will. (No shade to book lists, end of year or …
Retellings of mythology and reimaginings of myths and legends are one of my favorite types of books. The same primal themes and storylines that inspired people to pass them down from generation and generation are probably what attract people to them now. I would say that Crice is probably my favorite book out of this ...
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