![]() ![]() But it would be wrong to see The Pigeon Tunnel as some sort of angry riposte. ![]() So there’s a causal relationship between these two books. More to the point, would Cornwell have written the book if he hadn’t read Sisman’s take on his life first? I am pretty certain he would not. Did Sisman realize that David Cornwell was going to do this? I don’t know the answer, but at some stage he probably did. It covers many of the same anecdotes and characters. What happens when a biography collides with an autobiography? Adam Sisman’s careful, comprehensive life of “John le Carré” (his real name is David Cornwell) has been followed within months by the novelist’s own memoir. John le Carré, Beirut, Lebanon, 1983 photograph by Don McCullin ![]()
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![]() ![]() Cole used his newfound profile to draw insistent, unyielding attention to the injustices faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis.īoth Cole’s activism and journalism find vibrant expression in his first book, The Skin We’re In. The story quickly came to national prominence, shaking the country to its core and catapulting its author into the public sphere. In his 2015 cover story for Toronto Life magazine, Desmond Cole exposed the racist actions of the Toronto police force, detailing the dozens of times he had been stopped and interrogated under the controversial practice of carding. The Skin We're In will spark a national conversation, influence policy, and inspire activists. ![]() A bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. ![]() ![]() The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad Mike Birbiglia and J. The Egyptian government has accused Netflix of misrepresenting Cleopatra by framing her as a Black woman. Writers Guild of America members at the picket line in front of Amazon studios. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America Ijeoma Oluo Opinion: The writers’ strike is partly about AI. Some of our faves are heady and serious, others are unapologetically escapist! In no particular order-and with a nod to some oldies that helped to smooth our frayed 2020 nerves-we hope you’ll enjoy this quirky and not so comprehensive list.Īn Indigenous People's History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz The Overstory is the latest project to be part of Benioff and Weiss exclusive overall global deal at Netflix, which was announced in late 2019 following the duos departure from HBO. Below are some shout outs from the Aspen Ideas staff. ![]() ![]() In a year like no other, we had more time than ever to consume media. Netflix - 3 Body Problem Netflix - A Man in Full Netflix - American Primeval Netflix - Avatar: The Last Airbender Netflix - Baby Reindeer. ![]() ![]() Then she meets Jimmy Tomasson, whose prophetic dreams of flying fish have led him to her. Years later, when her mother runs off with a man, Odella is left to hold her fragile family together. Before she was born, her mother was the only survivor when a car full of teenagers plunged through ice to the bottom of Mistik Lake. 'You're Odella McLean,' he said.Odella is haunted by family secrets. ![]() I watched an early rising half-moon, turned my head back and suddenly he was there - as if I'd conjured him up - walking along the shoreline. Across the valley a farmer burned stubble. Smoke drifted over the trees from various cottage fireplaces. Years later, when her mother runs off with a man, Odella is left to hold her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its misfortunes are not difficult to explain: Unlike Life and Fate, Stalingrad was published in the Soviet Union under Stalin and gained a reputation as Stalinist hackwork. Only now is the novel available in English for the first time, in a version edited by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan and beautifully translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler. Yet Life and Fate was only the second half of an epic work that started with Stalingrad, written in the 1940s and all but forgotten until recently. ![]() The novel was published at last in 1980, in Switzerland, due to the tireless efforts of a handful of mostly Jewish Russophone writers and intellectuals, and it eventually became a classic. By then, the Orthodox Russian nationalist Solzhenitsyn was the new big thing in Soviet dissidence Grossman’s Jewish themes had a narrower appeal. The dissident satirist Vladimir Voinovich arranged to have microfilm of Life and Fate smuggled abroad in 1975, but it took years to find a publisher. Grossman died of cancer in 1964, in despair over the suppression of his masterpiece. Fortunately, two of Grossman’s friends had hidden copies. ![]() Grossman’s attempts to publish his novel in the Soviet Union ended with the manuscript’s famous “arrest” in 1961, one of the only cases when the KGB seized a manuscript but not its author. Vasily Grossman is best known in the West for his World War II novel Life and Fate, which he wrote in the 1950s. STALINGRAD by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler NYRB Classics, 1,088 pp., $27.95 ![]() ![]() Franks) "John Fowles's 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'" (R. ![]() Eickhoff) "Frederick Douglass's 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave'" (P. Bickmore) "Charles Dickens's 'Great Expectations'" (R. Schmaltz) "Charles Dickens's 'David Copperfield'" (S. Jones) "Roald Dahl's 'Lamb to the Slaughter'" (B. Hosemann) "Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'" (M. Sevcik) "Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights'" (S. Long) "Richard Bradford's 'Red Sky at Morning'" (A. Harper) "Ray Bradbury's 'Farenheit 451'" (K. Clark) "Conrad Aiken's 'Silent Snow, Secret Snow'" (S. Ley) "Overview of Critical Approaches" (A. ![]() The guides contain an overview of the work, a pool of instructional objectives for each work, a variety of activities, a series of discussion options, suggestions for evaluation, and annotated lists of related works. This sourcebook presents reading guides for 39 literary works frequently used by scondary school English teachers. ![]() ![]() When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free.īecker’s Journey, which notably contains no words with the story instead being told entirely through his illustrations , is the first in a wordless trilogy which also includes Quest and Return. Red marker in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon, and a flying carpet that carry her on a spectacular journey toward an uncertain destiny. ![]() The story, described as being in the vein of The Chronicles of Narnia and Alice in Wonderland, centers on a lonely girl who draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world where wonder, adventure, and danger abound. Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are producing for Temple Hill with Jaclyn Huntling. Producers are still working to package the project before taking out to buyers. Temple Hill Entertainment has acquired the film rights to acclaimed 2013 picture book JOURNEY by Aaron Becker and has attached Monster House screenwriter Pamela Pettler to adapt the script. ![]() ![]() 〉 Journey is the first book in a trilogy that also includes Quest and Return. ![]() ![]() His brother, Gerry Lehane, who is two and a half years older than Dennis, trained at the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence and became an actor in New York in 1990. Lehane is a graduate of Eckerd College in St. ![]() ![]() Both of his parents emigrated from Ireland. His father was a foreman for Sears & Roebuck, and his mother worked in a Boston public school cafeteria. He spent summers on Fieldston Beach in Marshfield. He lived in the Boston area most of his life, where he sets most of his books, but now lives in southern California. Lehane was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Four of his novels were adapted as films of the same names: Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010), and Gone Baby Gone (2007) and Live by Night (2016), both directed by Ben Affleck. He has published more than a dozen novels the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War. ![]() Lehane at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festivalĭennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author. ![]() ![]() ![]() It went on to become a New York Times bestseller and was even chosen for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. She’s on the cusp of a breakthrough when she finds out the son she never told her husband about is heading to Paris to find her - upending her carefully managed world and threatening to destroy a vulnerable marriage.Īlka Joshi enchanted readers with her debut, The Henna Artist, a vivid and compelling debut novel that explored one woman’s struggle for fulfilment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern. Tasked with her first major project, Radha travels to India where she enlists the help of her sister, Lakshmi, and the courtesans of Agra - women who use the power of fragrance to seduce, tease, and entice. She feels his frustration, but she can’t give up this thing that drives her. She only wishes Pierre could understand her need to work. Now, ten years later, she’s working for a master perfumer, helping to design completely new fragrances for clients and building her career one scent at a time. When her friend’s grandfather offered her a job at his parfumerie, she quickly discovered she had a talent - she could find the perfect fragrance for any customer who walked in the door. She still grieves for the baby boy she gave up when she was only a child herself, but she loves being a mother to her daughters, and she’s finally found her passion - the treasure trove of scents. Radha is now thirty-two and living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two daughters. ![]() ![]() ![]() If in the politically correct Plutus Aristophanes “became the most productive and adaptable personality of the classical and recent Greek heritage”, in the unorthodox Lysistrata –in which profanity, contemporary political satire, and gender relations and reversals abound– the comic poet tested the adaptability and resilience of his specific idiom in different historical and theatrical settings, inviting artists from every age to give their own answers –well-grounded or not, but always dynamic– to the challenging questions that recur in the treatment of his work and of its component parts. The play in question is Lysistrata of 411 BC, a typical “political comedy” of the classical era largely neglected in the scriptorial, publishing and theatrical tradition, but also the one which has enjoyed the widest –and continuously increasing– international appeal since the beginning of the 20 th century, as women’s emancipation has been constantly gaining ground in a world still ravaged by wars, civil or otherwise. ![]() |