![]() Photos that could stop wars.” He has shot “the government minister who looked on while the savages of ’83 torched Tamil homes and slaughtered the occupants”, and taken “portraits of disappeared journalists and vanished activists, bound and gagged and dead in custody”. Working for newspapers and magazines, his ambition is to take photographs “that will bring down governments. Maali is a witness to the brutality of the insurrections in Sri Lanka. The novel also depicts the victims of Marxist group the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, or People’s Liberation party, who similarly waged an insurrection against the Sri Lankan government, and killed many leftwing and working-class civilians who got in their way. ![]() ![]() Many of the people he meets in this bleakly quotidian landscape are victims of the violence that plagued Sri Lanka in the 80s, including a Tamil university lecturer who was gunned down for criticising militant separatist group the Tamil Tigers. Other souls surround him, with dismembered limbs and blood-stained clothes and they are incapable of forming an orderly queue to get their forms filled in. ![]() It’s no Miltonian pandemonium for him, “the afterlife is a tax office and everyone wants their rebate”. ![]() But no: he really is dead, and seemingly locked in an underworld. He thinks he has swallowed “silly pills” given to him by a friend and is hallucinating. ![]()
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne – A free audiobookĪround the World in Eight Days is one of the most beloved adventure novels by French author Jules Verne. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Aleph is the second narrative summit of Borges and, together with Ficciones, one of his paradigmatic books. ![]() ![]() Since the friendship between them was diluted in 1956 it is difficult to find dedicated books from Borges to Martinez estrada. (Despite this, after his death, Borges could not ignore the quality of writing and intelligence of Martinez Estrada, and commented his book of poems with these lines, although not very generous, fairly fair: "This volume is inconceivable without the previous work of Lugones and Darío, but there are many pieces that match or surpass their models, at this moment I remember the poems dedicated to Whitman, Emerson and Poe "). Martinez estrada like almost all the components of the intellectual elite, he maintained a closed anti-Peronism between 19, but after that date he reacted with dignity to the first persecutory measures of the so-called Liberation Revolution, and began to collaborate with magazines and publications on the left, especially With Propositos", Leonidas Barletta's weekly newspaper, Jorge Luis Borges, came up with this kind of statements, and since then a hard controversy and other differences have been set up that separated them forever. "A Ezequiel Martinez Estrada, con la admiracion de su amigo. Inscribed, dated and signed by the author. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was wearing a maroon cashmere muffler which had hiked up on his neck, giving him next to no protection against the cold. For ten minutes or more, he had deliberately been standing just out of conversation range of the other boys, his back against the free Christian Science literature rack, his ungloved hands in his coat pockets. Or, rather, he was and he wasn’t one of them. ![]() Lane Coutell, in a Burberry raincoat that apparently had a wool liner buttoned into it, was one of the six or seven boys out on the open platform. The rest were standing around in hatless, smoky little groups of twos and threes and fours inside the heated waiting room, talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the outside, non-matriculating world had been bungling, provocatively or not, for centuries. Of the twenty-some young men who were waiting at the station for their dates to arrive on the ten-fifty-two, no more than six or seven were out on the cold, open platform. T HOUGH brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone had hoped it would stay for the big weekend-the weekend of the Yale game. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read it in one sitting and already revving towards rereading it again. The world building, the storyline, the protagonists, it was fresh, it was unique and it was just so damn enthralling. ![]() OMG!!!! □ How much I loved this book!!! □ This is my second hair tentacles book and it sure was freaking glorious! Who knew hairs could be so sexy? □□ But no, this book is so much more than kinky hair tentacles. Carriger) brings you a light-hearted romantic cozy mystery featuring an adorable lavender alien and his human crush. New York Times best-selling author Gail Carriger (writing as G.L. 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I’d made a name for myself as a renowned supernatural bounty hunter, holding the record for most harpies slayed. ![]() ![]() Genre: NA/Adult Fantasy, Steampunk, Romance ![]() ![]() ![]() This has been a truly remarkable decade for movement-building, social change and deep shifts in ideas, perspective and frameworks for large parts of the population (and, of course, backlashes against all those things). It means facing them and addressing them by remembering what else the 21st century has brought, including the movements, heroes and shifts in consciousness that address these things now. Hope doesn’t mean denying these realities. Worse than these is the arrival of climate change, faster, harder and more devastating than scientists anticipated. The attack on civil liberties, including the right to privacy, continues long after its “global war on terror” justifications have faded away. ![]() The 21st century has seen the rise of hideous economic inequality, perhaps due to amnesia both of the working people who countenance declines in wages, working conditions and social services, and the elites who forgot that they conceded to some of these things in the hope of avoiding revolution. Full engagement requires the ability to perceive both. ![]() This is an extraordinary time full of vital, transformative movements that could not be foreseen. And the changes we have undergone, both wonderful and terrible, are astonishing. Popular power has continued to be a profound force for change. Progressive, populist and grassroots constituencies have had many victories. ![]() Coming back to the text more than a dozen tumultuous years later, I believe its premises hold up. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel’s arguments come to rather glorious light through that process of struggle. There is hope, though, and a fight to be fought. Newitz balances the terrors of living as a woman under patriarchy with the blistering, relentless, revolutionary possibilities of collective action. The portions of the novel set at the Chicago Midway in 1893 are some of the most vibrant in their grappling with the problems of activism. Gender, class, race, ethnicity, and ability are all influences on a given individual’s approach and understanding. The Future of Another Timeline is multifaceted and unbelievably thorough in representing resistance. Newitz’s comprehensively intersectional engagements with feminist activism are made real. The book is a good book, in terms of craft and execution, but it’s also a fucking important book-an urgent book, a clear-seeing book, a book with ethics to argue as well as the passion to do so. The Future of Another Timeline is an absolute tour de force that wholeheartedly embraces the radical potential science fiction holds as a political genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Juxtaposing images of elite government, media, and labor officials with photographs of counterculture activists, writers and artists, and ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it explores five-decades of politics and power by one of America’s best-known portrait photographers. He photographed the faces of politics throughout his career, and this book brings together his political portraits for the first time. ![]() Richard Avedon was amazingly prolific during his 50-plus years as a photographer, jumping from high-fashion shoots to his own brand of civil rights photojournalism and support for yippies and members of the counterculture. ![]() |