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Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present. ![]() ![]() The Far Field does both."-Anthony Marra, author of The Tzar of Love and TechnoĪn elegant, epic debut novel-"equal parts love story, war story, and family intrigue" (Ben Fountain)-from an exciting new talent and Pushcart Prize-winner that follows one young woman's search for a lost figure from her childhood, a journey that takes her from Southern India to Kashmir and to the brink of a devastating political and personal reckoning Few novels generate enough power to transform their characters, fewer still their readers. Madhuri Vijay traces the fault lines of history, love, and obligation running through a fractured family and country. 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Mornings in the SoCal apartment he shares with his best bud are all starting off the same way: Cam wakes up and discovers a new ink breakout somewhere on his body. ![]() ![]() “Recording the Theatre in Photographs,” Educational Theatre Journal, 28, 3 (1976), 376-388. “Academic Theatre,” Educational Theatre Journal, XXVI, 3 (1974), 387-388. “Dramatic Multitude and Mystical Experience: W. “Ecstasy and Insight in Yeats,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 11, 3 (1971), 257-267. “ Oedipus as an Exorcism,” Educational Theatre Journal, XXII, 3 (1970), 249-255. “Impassioned Art: An Interpretation of Tonight We Improvise by Luigi Pirandello,” Western Speech, XXXIII, 3 (1969), 184-191. Nelson (University of Chicago Press, 1972), 292-315. Parts I and II reprinted in abridged form in Medieval English Drama: Essays Critical and Contextual, ed. “Was There a Medieval Theatre in the Round? A Re-examination of the Evidence,” Part II, Theatre Notebook, XXIV, 1 (1969), 18-25. “Was There a Medieval Theatre in the Round?: A re-examination of the Evidence,” Part 1, Theatre Notebook, XXIII, 4 (1969), 130-142. Actors and Onlookers: Theater and Twentieth-Century Scientific Views of Nature (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern UP, 1990).īefriending the Commedia Dell’Arte of Flaminio Scala: The Comic Scenarios, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014). ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Granuaile is desperate to free herself of the Norse god Loki's mark and elude his powers of divination-a quest that will bring her face-to-face with several Slavic nightmares.Īs Atticus globetrots to stop his nemesis Theophilus, the journey leads to Rome. Ornery archdruid Owen Kennedy is having a wee bit of troll trouble: Turns out when you stiff a troll, it's not water under the bridge. But his allies have problems of their own. It's time to make a stand.Īs always, Atticus wouldn't mind a little backup. 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In 1940, his political convictions led to a less honorable enterprise when he spearheaded an assault on the home of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky as he and his family slept in their beds. Trotsky’s guidelines for the new art of the Soviet Republic were broad and tolerant ('Art cannot live and cannot develop without a flexible atmosphere of sympathy around it'). Over the next several decades, he would revolutionize the theory and practice of muralism in Mexico and abroad, largely inspired by his radical politics. Trotsky’s writings on art constitute a part of his struggle against Stalinism and for socialism. A diehard Communist, David Alfaro Siqueiros fought in the Mexican Revolution in the mid-1910s. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Herland, a trio of men set out to discover an all-female community rumoured to be hidden deep in the jungle. This chilling story is based on the author’s own experience of depression. This edition is introduced by journalist and author Lucy Mangan.Ĭonfined to her attic bedroom and isolated from her newborn baby, the nameless narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper keeps a secret diary in which she records the sprawling and shifting patterns of the room’s lurid yellow wallpaper as she slowly sinks into madness. ![]() These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. ![]() The Yellow Wallpaper skillfully charts one woman's struggle with depression whilst Herland is an entertaining imagining of an all female utopia. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s progressive views on feminism and mental health are powerfully showcased in her two most famous stories. ![]() ![]() From the locations, to events (which I had a difficult time to discern which ones are fictional and which ones are made up), to tactics. ![]() The amount of research done in this book is certainly impressive. Unlike movie spies, who stand out everywhere they go. People with extraordinary skills who don’t stand out in a crowd. ![]() The author built his cast as gray people who can mix anywhere. They are interesting, as well as intelligent. The stars of this book are the characters, which I feel I can say for the whole series. I didn’t care for the repetitiveness, and while the plot was complex, it wasn’t convoluted and really didn’t demand much from the reader. Silva did think it was too complex because he kept repeating himself a lot. The book has a thrilling and complex plot, not too complex to follow though. I did, however, remember all the characters who, like old friends, I never get tired of. I all fairness, it has been a long time since I read it, so I had to go back and read a quick synopsis on it. The Defector by Daniel Silva picks up from where the previous book, Moscow Rules, ended. ![]() All of my favorite characters are back, and are growing, as well as facing challenges across the globe. It has been a while since I read a Gabriel Allon book, and I was glad to be back. This is the ninth novel is this series, full of international travel and suspense. The Defector by Daniel Silva follows the adventures of Israeli agent/art restorer Gabriel Allon and his team. ![]() |