Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, died three days after being severely beaten by five Memphis Police Department officers during a traffic stop on January 7, 2023. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 27: A demonstrator participates in a protest against the police killing of Tyre Nichols on Januin Washington, DC. Memphis and cities across the country are bracing for potential unrest when the city releases video footage from the beating to the public later this evening. WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 27: A demonstrator participates in a protest against the police killing of Tyre Nichols on Januin Washington, DC.
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In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is life worth living? If human existence holds no significance, what can keep us from suicide? As Camus argues, if there is no God to give meaning to our lives, humans must take on that purpose themselves. The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in Penguin Classics. Introduction: Literature and the Political Problem 1. As she did in her groundbreaking documentary novel COUNTDOWN, award-winning author Deborah Wiles uses stories and images to tell the riveting story of a certain time and place - and of kids who, in a world where everyone is choosing sides, must figure out how to stand up for themselves and fight for what's right. 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JUST BEFORE THE death of Jerome David “J. “I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.” Typeface: Seb Lester How a young woman’s spiritual crisis is redeemed by the power of familial love They insist, for example, that she wear a helmet when riding her bike. They are always worried about her getting hurt. Her family relocates to Los Alamos after her father's death. The main character is a teen-aged girl named Davey. That explains why she was able to write, with great accuracy, about Los Alamos. I learned that in 1976, Judy Blume moved to Los Alamos and lived there for a few years. Oppenheimer oversaw the development of atomic weapons and the site of a national laboratory, it is an unusual place.Īfter reading Tiger Eyes, I did a bit of research. Due to its history as the place where Robert J. I got to know some of those scientists and their kids. There were barbecues at homes of my dad's colleagues, too. He won international engineering awards for cameras he designed and built at the lab. My dad worked at Los Alamos National Lab as an electrical engineer. Nambe Pueblo is about 25 miles from Los Alamos. I graduated from Pojoaque High School in 1977, so I doubt that I'd read it until now.Īs I read Blume's coming-of-age novel, I remembered the places she describes. I got a copy of the book and started reading. My first thought was "did I read Tiger Eyes" when I was in high school? Now, he goes on, that part of his family lives in a pueblo 30 miles away. In the clip, "Wolf" tells "Tiger" that Tewa people, his ancestors, lived in the caves 800 years ago. Being tribally enrolled at Nambe Pueblo and having grown up there means that I immediately recognized the setting. Initially he proceeds with optimism and reason, but as he suffers repeated setbacks he becomes more willing to manipulate and deceive people to achieve his ends. He ventures into the miles-wide, miles-tall tower in search of help, only to find most people indifferent to his plight and out to rob or enslave him. Senlin Ascends is the story of a man who visits the Tower of Babel - which may or may not be "our" mythological tower - on honeymoon only to lose his wife. It's quite possibly the most striking debut work of speculative fiction published in the last decade. It's what you'd get if China Mieville and Christopher Priest collaborated on a novel and both brought their A-game, and it was then adapted for film by Studio Ghibli. It's a black comedy of manners, a dashing adventure, and a devastating deconstruction of people, places and tropes. It's a science fiction novel set inside a Big Dumb Object created by peoples unknown for scientific purposes (.perhaps?). It's a character-focused slice of the New Weird. It's a steampunk romance with airships and sky-pirates. This is fantasy, but not quite as you may know it. Senlin Ascends is the first novel in a trilogy called The Books of Babel, followed by Arm of the Sphinx (out now) and The Hod King (working title, due next year). The author delves into Napoleon's personal life as well, with a discussion of the future emperor's early amorous adventures and some speculation on his sexual initiation. Ellis emphasizes Napoleon's Corsican roots and stresses that this Corsican heritage played an important part in the development of Napoleon's character (pp. Although Ellis is successful in several of the areas which he explores with his work, the book does contain some serious weaknesses which undermine the overall quality of his tome.Įllis displays a solid grasp of his subject and an understanding of Napoleon Bonaparte as a man and as an emperor. His goal is to provide a useful text for survey courses on Modern European History or specialized courses on the Napoleonic era. In his new work Napoleon, author Geoffrey Ellis attempts to provide a book that is both a biography of the French emperor as well as a general history of the Napoleonic era. |