![]() ![]() ![]() He had come looking for support for the journal Enquiry, which he and some Marxist scholars were planning to issue. I met him, first not in Delhi, but at Aligarh, in 1959. He established contact with Communists there, and, caught in the net cast under Senator Mc Carthy’s anti-Communist crusade, he was deported to India.īack in Delhi in the early 1950s, Bipan Chandra was appointed lecturer in History at the Hindu College, Delhi. Thereafter he went to the United States where he studied at the Stanford University (California), presumably for his master’s degree. He graduated from Forman Christian College, Lahore, which the Partition forced him to leave. ![]() As used to be the case in old Punjab, his early education was in Urdu, and, as he once told me, he was best at home in his early years with an Urdu novel by his side. This is how, indeed, it should have been because Bipan Chandra’s death has been a great loss not only to the academic community but to the thinking part of our nation.īipan Chandra was born at Kangra (now in Himachal Pradesh) in 1928. ![]() His death was widely reported both in the newspapers and the electronic media, where there were also a spate of obituaries and commemorative commentaries. BIPAN Chandra, one of India’s leading historians and an uncompromising defender of secularism and the scientific spirit, passed away in the early hours of August 30, 2014. ![]()
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![]() Little boys are constantly praised for having penises and being able to urinate standing up girls' urination is ignored or mocked. ![]() As Anneli and her playmates become older, Grabrucker notices even more disturbing trends. Her children's books focus on the adventures of boys women in the books are always depicted as wives or mothers, while professions are for men (farmers and farmers' wives doctors and doctors' wives). Anneli is encouraged to be pretty and rewarded for wearing dresses. ![]() Gender norms are constantly reinforced by strangers, grandparents, parents of other children. People speak tenderly and playfully to Anneli briskly and impersonally to her male playmates. Anneli's earliest perceptions of gender from the world around her are 'woman nothing on' and 'man talk'. ![]() It builds up a textured portrait of how gender socialisation is accomplished. It is an extremely detailed account of the small daily incidents that shape Anneli's emerging consciousness of herself as female. Originally published in German in 1983, this is a diary of the first three years of a girl's life, kept by her mother from the point at which she discovered that her four-month old foetus was female. ![]() ![]() While they grieve Cameron’s loss, suspicion starts to take hold, and Nathan is forced to examine secrets the family would rather leave in the past. Nathan, Bub and Nathan’s son return to Cameron’s ranch and to those left behind by his passing: his wife, his daughters, and his mother, as well as their long-time employee and two recently hired seasonal workers. ![]() But something made him head out alone under the unrelenting sun. Cameron was the middle child, the one who ran the family homestead. In an isolated belt of Australia, their homes a three-hour drive apart, the brothers were one another’s nearest neighbors. Their third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet. ![]() Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from Jane Harperīrothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. "I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries." -Stephen King ![]() ![]() ![]() She enjoys the work of Milan Kundera, Caitlin R Kiernan, Bret Easton Ellis, Richard Linklater, and the late, great Michael Jackson, I mean, come on, he gave us Thriller. ![]() That might be just an excuse, though, as she is pretty bad at learning foreign languages. ![]() She was born in July (for those of you doing book reports) in Seoul, South Korea, but doesn’t speak a lick of Korean, as she was packed off at a very early age to her adoptive parents in the United States. Her work is sort of dark, always violent, and features passages describing food from when she writes while hungry. Kendare Blake is the author of several novels and short stories, most of which you can find information about via the links above. Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, Imprint for Tor Teen ![]() ![]() ![]() Henry Winkler at First Parish Church (11/2).Andrew Leland at Harvard Book Store (7/27).Shastri Akella at Harvard Book Store (7/24). ![]() Colson Whitehead at Memorial Church (7/19).Ann Beattie at Harvard Book Store (7/18).Nicole Flattery at Harvard Book Store (7/14).Adrienne Brodeur at the Brattle Theatre (7/12).Kate Storey at Harvard Book Store (7/7).Leah Elson at Harvard Book Store (6/29).Artem Mozgovoy at Harvard Book Store (6/28).Garrett Neiman at Harvard Book Store (6/27).Haley Jakobson at Harvard Book Store (6/26).Nash Jenkins at Harvard Book Store (6/22).Sarah Viren at Harvard Book Store (6/21).Mattie Kahn at Harvard Book Store (6/20).Leah and Richard Rothstein at the Brattle Theatre (6/15).Ali Hazelwood at the Brattle Theatre (6/14).Ocean Vuong at First Parish Church (6/12).Stephanie Crease at Harvard Book Store (6/5). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In general, I find Bester’s prose difficult to get into. The ideas are great, but the execution is a distaster. But as with Bester’s other work, those moments of beinga ble to follow what was going on were not as extended as I would have liked them to be. When I could follow the plot, it was indeed exciting and tense. ![]() Bester has clearly thought long and hard about the way these abilities would change law enforcement, and how they might conceivably alter society as a whole. A considerable amount of thought has gone into the espers ( Extra Sensory Perception-ers) who make up the police force. To give Bester credit, the ideas in this book are great. Though The Demolished Man came out well beforehand, there are shades of Minority Report in that summary, and I was intrigued. And then there’s the premise of the book, which promises a fraught battle of wits between a would-be murderer and the telepathic police force determined to stop him. That sort of reputation is enough to make me sit up and take notice. As this SF Masterwork edition proudly boasts, it was the first novel to win a Hugo Award, which even now is one of the most coveted literary awards in the science fiction community. The Demolished Man holds a special place in the science fiction canon. But death always finds a way, and one man’s journey into violence could spell disaster for all involved. With telepathic law enforcement, violent crime should be impossible. Reprinted under the Gollancz SF Masterworks banner. ![]() ![]() There was a point where I was deleting emails out of my email inbox and I found these old love emails I used to send to my first girlfriend, and there was just something so sweet and genuine about those emails… the length of them, just unapologetic, sentimental. I just didn't know how I would make all of that work. I'd been really wanting to do a teen character of some kind, and I knew I also wanted to do a pizza delivery novel. JEAN KYOUONG FRAZIER: I was a lot of short stories similar topics - young parenthood, addiction, sexuality, Americanization. ![]() SARAH NEILSON: What inspired this character? ![]() Shondaland sat down with Frazier to discuss art, love emails, complicated queer characters, and what it means to celebrate pride. Pizza Girl is a singular novel, complex and gripping, a short but sweeping story of a truly compelling character. ![]() Her fixation on, and relationship with, an older woman reveals new backroads into her psyche and her needs, while the drab, and, at time, bright landmarks of her life not only draw the reader deep into her character, but propel the story to surprising places.Īs we enter Pride month, in a year where a pandemic has changed much of how we come together, it’s especially vital to think about, read, and uplift queer stories that go beyond the typical narratives of white cisgender men and coming out narratives. Her narrator’s interiority is a map of all the pain, desire, and boredom that make a life. ![]() Frazier delivers a novel that is as breezy to read as it is hard-hitting. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author, Peter May, knows his turf, or peat, or sod, whatever. Suspects? Apparently the entire population of the Isle, presumably minus Fin Macleod, although the detective himself was no fan of Angel when growing up. The murder victim? The widely and long-despised Angel Macritchie. ![]() ![]() (The idea that a grieving father, whose marriage is also unraveling, is up to the task after only a month is a tad unbelievable.) As for the Isle of Lewis constabulary, other than some sympathetic underlings who take to the returning native son, they aren’t too thrilled to have an Edinburgh hotshot second-guessing them. Indeed, the detective’s assignment is an obvious ploy by his rather unsympathetic superiors to get his mind back on cop work. But police work soon takes a back seat to the flood of memories, some long-suppressed, that bedevil Fin, who is reeling from the tragic death of his eight-year-old child only a month earlier. ![]() True, the book’s protagonist, Fin Macleod, is an Edinburgh detective sent to investigate a brutal killing on the Isle of Lewis, the close-knit and hardscrabble Scottish community where he happened to be born. That’s not a fatal flaw, although it may present a problem for readers expecting either of those genres, and who may even feel misled by the publisher’s promotional material suggesting that The Black House is a police procedural. What The Black House isn’t: a true thriller or mystery. What The Black House is: well written, educational, innovative and character-driven. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other accolades include the Grand Rapids Bar Association’s President’s Award, the Grand Rapids Young Lawyers Section Service and Mentoring Award, and the Distinguished Service Award from Kalamazoo College, where he earned his undergraduate degree. Janet Welch, executive director of the State Bar, observed “Jon Muth’s simultaneous service as both president and executive director makes him a unique figure in the history of the State Bar of Michigan, but in truth his powerful legal skills and exemplary integrity would have left a lasting mark on the Michigan bar even if the State Bar had not been fortunate enough to have him at the helm at a crucial time in the bar’s history.”Ī 1971 graduate of Wayne State University Law School, Muth received recognition throughout his career, including the State Bar’s highest honor, the Roberts P. While president, Muth also served as acting executive director of the State Bar of Michigan following the death of Michael Franck and headed the executive director search committee while in that position. ![]() ![]() Muth holds the distinction of being the longest-serving president of the State Bar of Michigan, assuming the presidency six months earlier than expected when, in 1994, his predecessor Michael Hayes Dettmer was appointed United States attorney for the Western District of Michigan. The State Bar of Michigan mourns the loss of its 60th president, Jon R. Muth, who died January 29, at age 75. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are a more sensitive (or adventurous) reader, the Konrath scale rates specific categories from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest) to give you some idea if this is your kind of book.Ĭrossovers - Contains characters from the Jack Daniels and Associates series, the Timecaster series, and the Konrath Dark Thriller Collective series. ![]() He also holds his own short story contests every few months. ![]() Join Jack, her partner Herb, and her nemesis Harry McGlade, for her fourth, and greatest, case so far. Dirty Martini: A Jacqueline Jack Daniels Mystery by Konrath J.A. A Publishers Weekly contributor referred to Dirty Martini as 'a particularly potent mix of equal parts mirth and mayhem.' In addition to his own writing, Konrath teaches courses in both creative writing and the marketing aspects of a writer's life. Can she stop him - and decide whether to accept boyfriend Latham's surprise proposal - without destroying both her reputation and her sanity? ![]() But that's just the start of what he has planned, because he's aiming to kill fifty thousand people in the single biggest act of terrorism the US has ever seen. Whiskey Sour (2004) Bloody Mary (2005) Rusty Nail (2006) Dirty Martini. In Rusty Nail, it was a serial killer with a doozy of a family tree.Īnd now, in Dirty Martini, Jack faces her toughest adversary yet: a sicko who's poisoning the city's food supply. Joseph Andrew Konrath is an American fiction writer working in the mystery, thriller. In Bloody Mary, she busted a psychopath with a penchant for dismemberment. In Whiskey Sour, Chicago police Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels hunted down a killer dubbed "The Gingerbread Man." ![]() |