5/13/2023 0 Comments The Beloved by Alison RattleThere’s no need to, the media will do that for you.’ Chingonyi goes one better, using his lyric panache to honour pop references and cultural experiences of personal and communal significance while also turning the tables, casting a wry and intelligent eye on our wider attitudes. In his review for the Guardian, Ben Wilkinson called Kumukanda “an authentic and convincing book of poems in its many nuanced portrayals and unflinching reflections … As Valerie Mason-John once dryly observed: ‘Don’t categorise yourself as a black or ethnic poet. I have a book of poems in my rucksack, / blank pad, two pens, tattered A-Z, headphones / that know Prokofiev as well as Prince Paul.” 'Hey Jude' is an English football chant, beloved by massive crowds at sporting events, and part of a long and emotional tradition of singing along. In Casting, he writes: “Three years RADA, two years rep and I’m sick / of playing lean dark men who may have guns. More:Ĭhingonyi, who was born in Zambia and moved to the UK aged six, writes in the poem Self-Portrait as a Garage Emcee of how, “In time, I could rattle off The Slim Shady LP line for line / though no amount of practice could conjure the pale skin / and blue eyes that made Marshall a poet and me / just another brother who could rhyme”. "The Swansea University International Dylan Thomas prize is awarded each year for the best literary work by an author aged 39 or under – the age the beloved Welsh poet was when he died," reports Alison Flood for The Guardian. Zambian-British poet Kayo Chingonyi has won the UK's £30,000 Dylan Thomas award for his collection Kumukanda(Chatto & Windus/Penguin, 2017).
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Case against empathyFor example, in a study by Daniel Batson and colleagues, participants who were induced to feel concern for a terminally ill child were more likely to put her above other children on a waiting list for receiving care than participants who were told to take an objective perspective toward the child. He outlines several research studies that show empathy can lead to bad outcomes. This disconnect between our emotional responses to unusual events versus everyday violence may lead us to make wrong-headed suggestions for how to cope with gun violence, says Bloom. What’s wrong with empathy?Įmpathy is biased-we care more about certain people who are close to us, both proximally and emotionally, says Bloom-and it leads us to seek short-sighted rather than long-term solutions to problems.Ĭompare the public’s reaction to the Sandy Hook massacre, where many empathized with the parents of the dead children, to the public’s reaction to everyday murders in Chicago and other urban settings, which often pass with barely a nod. But the book falls short in its case against empathy. His book makes for an engaging, and somewhat enlightening, tour of the research in this area. From the GGSC to your bookshelf: 30 science-backed tools for well-being. 5/13/2023 0 Comments From my life with the chimpanzeesYou can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The unwanteds series in orderInstead of death, they meet the lush and magical world of Artime, kept secret from Justine by mage Marcus Today. Without a good-bye from his Wanted identical brother Aaron, Alex Stowe and the other Unwanteds travel to the Death Farm. On the day of Purge in totalitarian Quill, which is run by the High Priest Justine, 13-year-olds learn if they are deemed Wanted to attend the university, Necessary to tend the land or Unwanted and purged by execution. Every year in Quill, thirteen-year-olds are sorted into Review Quotes The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter in this middle-grade departure from McManns string of paranormal mysteries with romance for young adults. Book Synopsis A riveting middlegrade dystopian novel from New York Times bestselling Wake author Lisa McMann that Kirkus Reviews calls The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter. About the Book In a society that purges 13-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic. 5/12/2023 0 Comments The geisha bookI was surprised enough to find that it took them just shy of a year to get this sequel enough, but this is hardly anything like "Diary of a Mad Black Woman", partly because geishas try to make themselves as white as possible, and largely because this film is actually good melodrama. Seriously though, this film is a fairly different project for Marshall, although, more than that, it is way different from its predecessor. Between the American jazz dancers of "Chicago" and the Italian crooners of "Nine", Rob Marshall paid a visit to Japan, and even there, all he did was see about their dancing industry, so he really is a "gaysha". Trippy how a Chinese woman is playing Japanese, but hey, Zhang Ziyi, that kind of profiling is what you get when you have Americans make a film like this. Rating: PG-13 (Some Sexual Content|Mature Subject Matter) Life is good for Sayuri, but World War II is about to disrupt the peace. After rigorous years of training, Chiyo becomes Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang), a geisha of incredible beauty and influence. There, she is forced into servitude, receiving nothing in return until the house's ruling hierarchy determines if she is of high enough quality to service the clientele - men who visit and pay for conversation, dance and song. In the 1920s, 9-year-old Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo) gets sold to a geisha house. I am the author of epic fantasy series The Faithful and the Fallen, Of Blood and Bone and The Bloodsworn Saga. They would be wise to seek out both, for if the Black Sun gains ascendancy, mankind’s hopes and dreams will fall to dust. But prophesy indicates darkness and light will demand two champions, the Black Sun and the Bright Star. Some are skeptical, fighting their own border skirmishes against pirates and giants. High King Aquilus summons his fellow kings to council, seeking an alliance in this time of need. Then there will be a war to end all wars. Sorrow will darken the world, as angels and demons make it their battlefield. Those who can still read the signs see a threat far greater than the ancient wars. But now giants stir anew, the very stones weep blood and there are sightings of giant wyrms. Although the giant-clans were broken in ages past, their ruined fortresses still scar the land. The Banished Lands has a violent past where armies of men and giants clashed shields in battle, the earth running dark with their heartsblood. Only when he loses those he loves will he learn the true price of courage. He yearns to wield his sword and spear to protect his king’s realm. Young Corban watches enviously as boys become warriors under King Brenin’s rule, learning the art of war. I joined a literary translation club and we worked on a play together as a group. I think I always had an interest in literary translation but was able to put it to practice in college when I spent a semester of my junior year at Seoul National University. He is a poet and introduced me to some living poets I had never encountered before, such as Li-Young Lee, and inspired me to continue pursuing poetry. I loved writing for as long as I could remember, but I became very immersed in poetry in high school thanks to my creative writing teacher, Terence Young. How did you get started as a poet, writer, and translator? dissertation on contemporary Korean and Korean American women’s poetry. in Korean literature at the University of Chicago, and am working on a Ph.D. I serve as the Poetry Editor for The Margins, the digital magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. I am the editor and translator of a chapbook anthology called Against Healing: Nine Korean Poets. As a poet, I published A Cruelty Special to Our Species, a full-length collection, and Ordinary Misfortunes, a chapbook. I grew up in Korea and Canada and currently live in Honolulu, HI. Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Chicken soup with rice sendakThanks, dear Julie, for steering me toward this late-night book delight. Now, of course, I must buy the book and the song. It took me to a happy place-it’s just uplifting. This will take all of five minutes to listen to. I don’t dare try to sing it myself, even though it’s a catchy tune my cat Mr. In the video below, you get to see the fabulous book illustrations as King sings and you read. This little book in verse also comes in the form of a song by Carole King. I know for a fact that this chicken soup book would have been a scrumptious added treat for the kids. Now this! Now this! Julie (Grippo) leads me to the coolest reads, like this gem. Man, I wish had known about this book when my kids were young! I love Maurice Sendak and so do the kids-his Where the Wild Things Are was a favorite bedtime read (oh the pictures are just so beauteous). 5/12/2023 0 Comments Bon Jovi by Jon Bon JoviBut once inside, I can see nothing but a nondescript man in a chair. I'd expected to be confronted by oodles of barely suppressed tension and leather-clad, pouty-mouthed, large-haired sexiness the visual shorthand of rock gods in general, and Jon Bon Jovi in particular. I have been ushered into the long, anonymous, overly air-conditioned room, past swathes of security guards dressed in seven shades of stern it's all quite portentous. It's early October, the night before Bon Jovi – the band Jon named, fronts and owns in any meaningful sense – will perform a sell-out stadium gig for 60,000 Brazilian fans. I meet him in the conference room of an expensive chain hotel located in the midst of São Paulo's endless urban sprawl. This is lucky, because from where I'm standing, the rest of him looks a bit like a crumpled middle-aged man in a lumberjack shirt. He'll unleash them on you with no warning smiling suddenly and broadly (maybe with irony, maybe flirtatiously, maybe just because he's tickled by something), and you'll find yourself mesmerised by the beauty of the man's gnashers. Jon Bon Jovi deploys them (quite knowingly, I am sure) to amazing effect. They are semi-threatening when bared, but blindingly, staggeringly glamorous otherwise. They are white and they are straight and there are lots and lots and lots of them. Jon Bon Jovi – long-serving rock god, philanthropist, ageing yet viable pin-up – has truly stupendous teeth. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Inglorious empire buyHe goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation.British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial 'gift' - from the railways to the rule of law - was designed in Britain's interests alone. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. An essential read' Financial TimesIn the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. India was Britains biggest cash cow, and Indians literally paid for their own oppression. laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. In Inglorious Empire, Shashi Tharoor tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britains rise was built upon its depredations in India. The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires. |