![]() ![]() ![]() Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage 50 years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis. ![]() A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade - abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Nic struggles with his in the morning and I struggle with mine at night so the shifts work well to support each other. ![]() Cassidy Skelton, a mental health influencer and public speaker said: "The main focus for our shift work is due to me and Nic both being really passionate about mental health. The pair said establishing roles early on has helped their relationship and admit they run their relationship similar to how they would run a business. When Nic, a digital marketer, finishes work at 5:30pm he will cook tea, clean the house and run Cassidy a bath so she can chill when she gets home from work at 6:30pm. Cassidy, 27, and Nic, 31, have been together since January 2023 and have established "roles" which help their relationship run like clockwork.Ĭassidy starts work at 1pm, so will often wake up at 6am to prepare for the day - making breakfast, preparing for lunch and checking in with Nic to find out his plans for the day. A couple say they run their relationship like a business - and each do their role for set hours of the day. ![]() ![]() As the title already announced, the book foregrounded the annotator even before the poem’s original author. ![]() The driving force behind this new edition of the Comedy, Cristoforo Landino, was a humanist scholar who had recently established himself under the powerful patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici. Yet the inaugural Florentine printing was one of the most ambitious undertakings in the entire history of the printed book. The first printed edition of the work had appeared in Foligno in 1472. The Comedy at this date was no longer a novelty, having been completed by Dante shortly before his death in 1321. ![]() The late summer of 1481 saw the publication, in Florence, of an extraordinary book: Commentary of Cristoforo Landino, Florentine, on the Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Florentine Poet. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Moving with ease from discussions of early hominid skeletal structure to the place of wandering on foot in the development of the Romantic poetic sensibility, Solnit embraces nature and culture alike in this vigorous look at all things peripatetic. She’s one of our favourite intellectuals and oddballs: The Kirkus brilliantly summarises what makes Solnit such a capacious writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet his novels always leave me suddenly, sharply aware of what is absent from the literary mainstream: the ambition to write originally about new, exhilarating ideas. Once the electricity is connected, everything is obscured for me, and I am unable to judge whether MacLeod’s writing is typical of today’s sci-fi or a radical contribution. I have only half the mind which is needed to review these books, since the sci-fi which I am the most up-to-date with is probably Gulliver’s Travels. It is the first novel in a trilogy, with the second, Insurgence, due in November. It was published in May and it is called The Corporation Wars: Dissidence. Amongst these is a new book from the Scottish science-fiction author Ken MacLeod. Now the hurly-burly’s done, or at least now that we are on the sunny side of Brexit, let us catch up on some stories from the last few months which this website has uncharacteristically overlooked. ![]() ![]() As these companies have expanded, marketing themselves as champions of individuality and pluralism, their algorithms have pressed us into conformity and laid waste to privacy. These firms sell their efficiency and purport to make the world a better place, but what they have done instead is to enable an intoxicating level of daily convenience. ![]() We shop with Amazon socialize on Facebook turn to Apple for entertainment and rely on Google for information. Without pausing to consider the cost, the world has rushed to embrace the products and services of four titanic corporations. This rapid change has imperiled the way we think. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. ![]() One of the best books of the year by The New York Times, LA Times, and NPRįranklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence.A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() When he was sent to the public affairs office of SHAPE, he found himself in Paris, and met Lapierre.Īlthough he went back to Proctor and Gamble, and became products manager in the newly formed foods division in 1955, Collins found that advertising and commerce had lost their charm, so he looked to journalism for more satisfaction. He worked in the advertising department of Proctor and Gamble, in Cincinnati, Ohio, before being conscripted into the US army. Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, he was educated at the Loomis Chaffee Institute in Windsor, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale with a BA in 1951. Sales in the UK, however, were not as high as in other countries.Ĭollins had an advertising background and a flair for publicity. They spent $300,000 researching the book and still emerged as wealthy men. ![]() ![]() For their 1975 book, Freedom At Midnight, about the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, they took Vishnu Karkare, the only surviving killer, back to India, where he had kept a seedy doss house. ![]() Once the pair had hit upon a subject, they spent freely on research. Collins reasoned that the events, if sufficiently important, would stay in people's memory, and that, given the elapse of time, those who took part in them would be more likely to talk. If he was part of the news-literature duality, Collins leaned strongly on the news side, with the proviso that he and Lapierre always chose as the subject of their mega-earning books topics from the recent past. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Australian, Mireille Juchau wrote that the work had "magnetic detail" and commented that the subtitle "An Oral History" did not encompass the scale of its contents, citing Ales Adamovich's description of Alexievich as an author of " epic chorus"-style literature. Comparing the author to Studs Terkel, Garner praised the observations of Alexievich and the English translation's quality. Dwight Garner described it as an "enormous radio" of stories but commented that they sometimes are "baggy and repetitive". The Guardian named it the third best book of the 21st Century. It also documents the cultural and political life of its citizens in Soviet Russia as money and commercial restaurants replaced the influence of books and domestic kitchen spaces. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Second-Hand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of Communism. Secondhand Time reflects on the hopes of the Russian people in the early 90s and the broken promises by its politicians. An oral history of the Soviet Union and its end. The book contains few comments from the author herself. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets is a 2013 book by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. ![]() An oral history of the Soviet Union and its end, it shares the feelings and views of its people as the country transitioned to capitalism. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets is a 2013 book by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lilac may think that Rejar is only her mischievous pet– but this cat knows who is his own… Multi-award winner! Winner of the Holt Medallion, Best Paranormal Book of the Year, Best Paranormal Romance by the Bookstores That Care Network, awarded Romantic Times Gold Medal, Voted an all-time Desert Isle Keeper. Soon, she is cuddling up to the kitty all night and telling the silken creature her darkest secrets. ![]() DIDN’T YOUR MOTHER TELL YOU TO BE CAREFUL OF STRAY TOMCATS? Poor Lilac has no idea that her new cat is a feline shapeshifter. ![]() When Lilac Devere discovers a beautiful cat with dual-colored eyes sprawled across her carriage, the proper regency miss decides to take the handsome fellow home to be her pet. Handsome as sin, sensual as silk… This cat will get your tongue. $6.99) “REJAR’S GOT THE WOW FACTOR!” He is a totally sexual creature. ***Limited time only.*** Special price $3.99 (reg. ![]() ![]() ![]() Leading Ladies do not end up on tabloid covers.Īfter a messy public breakup, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez finds her face splashed across the tabloids. You Had Me at Hola is a New York Times Editor's Choice Pick, a n O Magazine Best Romance Pick and on many more Best Of lists! RITA® Award Winning author Alexis Daria brings readers an unforgettable, hilarious rom-com set in the drama-filled world of telenovelas-perfect for fans of Jane the Virgin and The Kiss Quotient. She and Ashton have such a steamy, swoony, love story that I didn't want the book to end!"-Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author "I could not get enough of Jasmine and Ashton! I adored Jasmine-her ambition, her confidence, her attacks of self-doubt, and especially her hilarious, snarky, and loving cousins. ![]() |