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Children will delight in two books that celebrate creativity and imagination, and one that shows a new way of seeing the world through maps.
“What Comes from the Night’ testifies to John Taylor’s complex bond with nature, a generous alliance that includes moments of introspection and melancholy.
Yiddish writer Celia Dropkin wrote not only of romantic love – a topic deemed quite suitable to women writers – but also of lust, anger, abasement, and violence.
It’s hard to imagine anyone connected with the movie world who is not appreciative of Phillip Lopate for the grace and intelligence and knowledge he has brought to film criticism.
We should be grateful to Rus Bradburd for giving us an opportunity to laugh as the forces of marketing and ignorance steamroll — ominously and without sufficient kickback — across the academic landscape.
In “Feh,” Shalom Auslander confronts being middle-aged, a time of life that, given his external circumstances, you would think he would be celebrating. But, instead of kvelling, he’s sunk, hilariously, in the depths of despair.
Now 78, Cher has written a compellingly candid chronicle of her early life and showbiz career, up until her move into the movies, which will be told in Part Two.
In a time when qualities such as empathy and caring for others are more important than ever, these books can help children better understand the lives of others.
There was, after all, something Faustian in the prospect of an elixir that promised to reveal glimpses of the divine while simultaneously burning pits of fire in the seeker’s brain.
Book Commentary: “Taming Silicon Valley” — Man Over AI
The kinds of regulations Gary Marcus proposes, however well-intentioned they may be, would — in practice — only end up further disenfranchising the masses.
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