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Posted about my SAB listing a few weeks ago about not showing up in search only when you entered the exact name. Widow Basquiat is an exploration of the artist as seen through the eyes of his muse, Suzanne. Unable to deal with the demands that his new fame brought, in 1988, at the age of twenty-seven Basquiat, the most successful black visual artist in history, died from a heroin overdose. ![]() ![]() But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. ![]() ![]() But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t believe there is a finer stylist in the history of American letters, and yet the legacy left in the minds of most Americans is that of a preening, flamboyant gay man high on drugs and liquor and the social-climbing obsession of the rich and famous.Ĭapote was openly and extravagantly gay, a caricature of himself driven to a fame and notoriety that was forever threatening his work as a writer. In the winter of 2004, I returned to the works of Truman Capote, reading through his entire corpus for the first time in 25 years. Someone forwarded the following essay to me, and I thought – in light of Norman Mailer’s recent death – that it was of great interest, especially considering my personal love of the book, ‘In Cold Blood’… AN INTERESTING SLANT ON THE TRUMAN CAPOTE/HARPER LEE RELATIONSHIP BY NORMAN MAILER… (Originally published Dec. ![]() ![]() ![]() Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard – or purged them altogether. ![]() A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet – and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children – among them Petra and her family – have been chosen to journey to a new planet. ![]() There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita.īut Petra's world is ending. ★ "A strong, heroic character, fighting incredible odds to survive and protect others."- School Library Journal (starred) ★ "Gripping, euphonious, and full of storytelling magic."- Publishers Weekly (starred) wonderfully subversive."- The Wall Street Journal "Gripping in its twists and turns, and moving in its themes – truly a beautiful cuento."- New York Times School Library Journal's Best of the YearĬhicago Public Library's Best of the Bestįrom Pura Belpré Award winner and Newbery Medalist, Donna Barba Higuera-a brilliant journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human. Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() Coralee’s are catching up with her, and what she’s hiding might be putting both their lives at risk. Coralee may be just the friend Ethan needs, except Ethan isn’t the only one with secrets. 'Theres always going to be a grain or two left. Twelve-year-old Ethan Truitt blames himself. Like Trying to destroy hope is like trying to clean sand out of your beach bag,' she said. It’s also home to Coralee, a girl with a big personality and even bigger stories. Debut author Standish boldly tackles themes of death, guilt, and forgiveness in this tender coming-of-age story. Before his family moved from Boston to the small town of Palm Knot, Georgia.Palm Knot may be tiny, but it’s the home of possibility and second chances. ![]() ![]() Before the accident that took Kacey from him. He was always ready for adventure and always willing to accept a dare, especially from his best friend, Kacey. A poignant middle grade novel of friendship and forgiveness, this is a classic in the making.Ethan had been many things. “Readers will be riveted.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) The Ethan I Was Before is an award-winning story of love and loss, wonder and adventure, and ultimately of hope.Lost in the Sun meets The Thing About Jellyfish in Ali Standish’s breathtaking debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Imagine the average British public’s reception of it. The piece is written in French–half Biblical, half pornographic–by Oscar Wilde himself. of a 1 act piece … written by Oscar Wilde! It is a miracle of impudence … love turns to fury because John will not let her kiss him in the mouth – and in the last scene, where she brings in his head–if you please–on a ‘charger’– she does kiss his mouth, in a paroxysm of sexual despair. I must send you, for your private edification and amusement, this MS. ![]() Official reason: presentation of Biblical characters on stage (16 th-century law), but privately the censor Edward Pigott writes to a friend, Spencer Posonby, about his real motivations: Petra Dierkes-Thrun, Stanford University Oscar Wilde’s Salomé: Contextġ892 The English theatrical censor bans the play from public performance as rehearsals were in full swing with Sarah Bernhardt in London in June of 1892. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Levin ( The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left, 2013, etc.), founder of the journal National Affairs and a distinguished student of Edmund Burke, understands that a middle lies between left and right. You won’t hear many liberals saying that conservative voices make for healthy political balance, or vice versa. A voice of both reason and establishment conservatism offers a prescription for renewed political discourse and bipartisan action. ![]() ![]() It then took many years to come up with an answer, and the confidence to tell the story, but what a story it is. Why, I asked myself, what could possibly be the reason?’ ‘I read a newspaper account of a man who had served a long prison sentence, but escaped the day before he was due to be released. Robotham’s renowned for taking a snippet from real life and building his novels around the ‘what if’ questions that tweak his interest, and he does so again in Life or Death: ![]() More importantly, it’s the book that I was meant to write.’ It’s a love story and a prison story and a heart-stopping account of one man’s refusal to surrender. That’s why I’m so excited about Life or Death. ‘It took me years to come up with an answer and even longer before I felt I had the skills to tell the story properly. Michael Robotham’s latest novel, published ten years after his first, was more than 20 years in the making. ![]() ![]() One of Australia’s great storytellers: Michael Robotham’s crime fiction and the tantalising premise of his new novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I didn’t have any peers,” Hawk said, looking back at that time. He’s also played a crucial role in mainstreaming the sport, via video games and creating skateparks across the country. The revelation may come as a surprise to cursory fans of Hawk, considering the skating legend-now 53, still shredding-has gone on to become the greatest skateboarder of all time. It’s a period of his life that’s rarely discussed, in which the then teenager, only a few years into his career, almost walked away from professional skateboarding for good. “I felt like I was losing myself,” Hawk says in the newly released HBO documentary Until the Wheels Fall Off, directed by Sam Jones. There was just one slight problem: Hawk was miserable. It got to the point where other skaters could only dream of placing second, because Hawk’s win was a foregone conclusion. ![]() After years of obsessive training, he had become the one to beat on the continental circuit-taking the top spot at skateboarding competitions across California, in Chicago, in Vancouver, setting records and winning thousands of dollars along the way. It was the mid-1980s, and Tony Hawk, the gangly runt of skateboarding team the Bones Brigade, had finally come into his own as a professional skater. ![]() |