![]() ![]() ![]() "The female libido, when measured correctly, is every bit as strong as the male. "What we've been taught about female sexuality is untrue," she says of the commonly held assumptions she hopes her book will disprove. Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free (Little, Brown Spark, out September 18) digs into the latest research on female desire and includes interviews with experts on "consensual non-monogamy," as well as women who cheat. "I make no secret of the fact that I was very unsuccessful at monogamy in my 20s," Martin, now 52, tells Newsweek. Faulted for superficiality, the author approached her latest topic-female infidelity-with more rigor, while still making it personal. Author and cultural critic Wednesday Martin made her name with the splashy and controversial 2015 best-seller Primates of Park Avenue, which had Martin infiltrating New York's Upper East Side wife-and-mommy set. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Wisława Szymborska (Polish pronunciation:, born Jin Kórnik, Poland) is a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. ![]() Map is the first English publication of Szymborska’s work since the acclaimed Here, and it offers her devoted readers a welcome return to her “ironic elegance” ( The New Yorker ). Of the approximately two hundred and fifty poems included here, nearly forty are newly translated thirteen represent the entirety of the poet’s last Polish collection, Enough, never before published in English. “If you want the world in a nutshell,” a Polish critic remarks, “try Szymborska.” But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew.Ĭarefully edited by her longtime, award-winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, the poems in Map trace Szymborska’s work until her death in 2012. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. Nobel Prize–winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. One of Europe’s greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. A new collected volume from the Nobel Prize–winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collection ![]() ![]() ![]() Other powerhouse heroes like Doc Green, She-Hulk, and Pod arrived to Earth-1610 and burst through the Triskelion, destroying it and killing Nick Fury and Hawkeye in the process. The Iron Man from Earth-1610 deployed the Iron Man Six weapon, but the tide of the battle is turned in favor of the heroes of the Marvel Universe when the Guardians of the Galaxy and Cyclops' Sentinels arrived to help. ![]() ![]() Numerous heroes tried to fend off the attackers.Īt the Baxter Building, Mister Fantastic was finishing getting ready the "lifeboat" to be used to save a small portion of humanity. The fleet arrived to the incursion point, the Manhattan of Earth-616 and started firing at it. Meanwhile, on Earth-1610, Nick Fury was making the final arrangements for the upcoming and final incursion, and soon after sent all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fleet towards Earth-616. They demanded to know who dared stand before them, and he presented himself. On one side of the Multiverse, Doctor Doom was confronting the Beyonders. ![]() ![]() The French fought valiantly in defence of their line, but they could not match the discipline and skills in the British sailors. The captains acted with zeal and good sense. The Battle of the Nile exemplified all that was best about the Royal Navy. In his lengthy work on the history of the British Royal Navy, Wilson writes that The victory marked “the establishment of British naval supremacy in the Mediterranean, never again to be lost” (Mostert, 2007: 276). The British victory ensured the French presence in Egypt would soon expire, and ended any future threat to India in one stroke, a possibility Nelson had always taken seriously (Strathern, 2007: 170). ![]() ![]() Even with the advantage of surprise, can Nelson and his captains find a way to overcome Brueys’ powerful flagship, L’Orient? ![]() Horatio Nelson versus Paul-François Brueys: A British fleet under Nelson surprises a French fleet under Brueys at anchor. ![]() ![]() Wrath was the outlier among the seven demon brethren, always choosing duty over pleasure. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find out who did this, and to punish them. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin…desecrated beyond belief. One night, Victoria never shows up for dinner service at the family’s renowned Sicilian restaurant. ![]() Intrigued? Here’s the description of the series’ first book:Įmilia and her twin sister Victoria are strega-witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. But Maniscalco’s talent for weaving haunting mysteries and smoldering romances into her writing carries across genres, and Kingdom of the Wicked is proof. ![]() ![]() The YA saga marks the bestselling author’s first foray into the fantasy genre, as she’s known for her historical Stalking Jack the Ripper series. Witches and demons roam 19th-century Italy in Kingdom of the Wicked, an enthralling new series from Kerri Maniscalco. ![]() ![]() "In Mallard, nobody married dark," Bennett writes starkly. Spanning nearly half a century, from the 1940s to the 1990s, the novel focuses on twin sisters, Desiree and Stella Vignes, who were raised in Mallard, Louisiana, a (fictional) small town conceived of by their great-great-great grandfather - after being freed by the father who once owned him - as an exclusive place for light-skinned blacks like him. It's also a great read that will transport you out of your current circumstances, whatever they are. It's an even better book, more expansive yet also deeper, a multi-generational family saga that tackles prickly issues of racial identity and bigotry and conveys the corrosive effects of secrets and dissembling. Four years later, her second, The Vanishing Half, more than lives up to her early promise. How?īrit Bennett's first novel, The Mothers, was the sort of smashingly successful debut that can make but also possibly break a young writer by raising expectations and pressure. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Vanishing Half Author Brit Bennett ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel was adapted into a 1940 film starring Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick, is a New York Times Critics’ Pick, and is included in the New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made. Digging into workers’ rights, social change, and the relationship between labor and capitalism, the struggles of the novel’s trifecta of protagonistspolitically minded miner. Digging into workers’ rights, social change, and the relationship between labor and capitalism, the struggles of the novel’s trifecta of protagonists-politically minded miner David Fenwick, ambitious drifter Joe Gowlan, and frustrated yet meek mining-baron’s son Arthur Barras-remain compelling and relevant to readers in the twenty-first century.ĪJ Cronin’s tale is one of many of the hardships of coal-mining communities during the industrial pre-war, World War I, and interwar periods in Britain, but stands out for its unflinching prose, universal themes, and keen storytelling. First published in 1935, The Stars Look Down tells the story of a North Country mining town as its inhabitants make their way through social and political upheaval. ![]() This thought-provoking novel of the challenges a coal mining community faces in the early twentieth century is “the finest work Cronin has given his public” ( Kirkus Reviews).įirst published in 1935, The Stars Look Down tells the story of a North Country mining town as its inhabitants make their way through social and political upheaval. ![]() ![]() ![]() Plus, an economy is not about one single need, picked by foresighted decision makers, in periods other than war time. It is easy to talk of “missions” and “directionality” but it is often quite controversial which mission should be undertaken – and with what kind of resources. That policy decisions other than pouring money at it can affect the production process is uncontemplated. People talk about the making and producing of such vaccines as something which should be “expected”, somehow from Big Pharma, like Santa delivers presents on Christmas. ![]() There is a little bit of that in the contemporary discussion over Covid-19 vaccines (at least in Europe). The processes by which things are produced and marketed are seen as the reflection of easily identifiable and relatively simple decisions by those on top. What always astonishes me about her (and similarly, other industrial policy advocate types’) views is how highly complex processes are sketched into very simple drawings. There is not much new in Mazzucato’s new book compared to her previous ones. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruth Franklin’s new biography of the author, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, reports Jackson’s claim that ‘only 13 were kind’. Jackson and the New Yorker received hundreds of letters about the tale, many of them antagonistic. Published three years after the end of the Second World War, just before McCarthyism gripped America and the witch-hunt for communists got under way, ‘The Lottery’ found a febrile readership. ![]() Set in a village of three hundred people, it tells, in Jackson’s simple, economical style, of a ritual sacrifice in which one villager is chosen by lot to be stoned to death: ‘“It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.’ When Shirley Jackson’s short story ‘The Lottery’ was published in the New Yorker in June 1948, some of its readers, incredibly, believed it to be fact. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harry Rex is a corrupt divorce lawyer and one of Jake Brigance's best friends. Lucien uses his money, influence, and encyclopedic law knowledge to help Jake win the case. Jake's palatial office is Lucien's old office, given to him for the small price of $400 a month. Lucien is the last surviving member of the Wilbanks family, a legendary law family in Ford County, Mississippi. Wilbanks is a disbarred attorney and a mentor to Jake. Roark is the daughter of famous defense lawyer Sheldon Roark and is a member of the ACLU, like Lucien. Ellen RoarkĪ third-year law student at Ole Miss who offers her services as a clerk, for free, in the wake of the trial. He has a young daughter himself, and he successfully defends Carl Lee. Jake BriganceĪ young, white lawyer who is friends with the Hailey family from his previous successful defense of Lester Hailey. ![]() ![]() As a Black man in a predominantly white town in Mississippi, Carl Lee's trial highlights the deep and persistent structural and institutional racism present in the American South. Enraged by the attack on his daughter, he kills her two rapists with an M-16 and is charged with murder. The novel tracks her long healing process, both on a physical and psychological level. The attack on Tonya is the inciting incident of the novel. ![]() Cobb and Willard rape her and attempt to murder her. She is kidnapped by Billy Ray Cobb and Willard on her way home from the grocery store. Tonya Hailey is the ten-year-old daughter of Carl Lee and Gwen Hailey. ![]() |