![]() ![]() Yet the desire to restrict speech, too, is a constant, and he explores how even its champions can be led down this path when the rise of new and contrarian voices challenge power and privilege of all stripes. ![]() Wells and modern-day digital activists-Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Through captivating stories of free speech’s many defenders-from the ancient Athenian orator Demosthenes and the ninth-century freethinker al-Rāzī, to the anti-lynching crusader Ida B. In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. “The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made.” - P.J. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Here, they share the rituals they use to resist self-doubt, grief, and depression in the face of sexism, slut shaming, racism, patriarchy, and other systems of oppression. What they have in common is that they’ve created personal rituals to summon their own power in a world that would prefer them powerless. Some identify as witches, others identify as writers, musicians, game developers, or artists. While bound by a thread of magic, these are inspiring feminist writings for readers of feminist literature, however identified.” - Library JournalĮdgy and often deeply personal, the twenty-one essays collected here come from a wide variety of writers. These writers make clear that as witches, femmes, and queers, they will use their own strength, ingenious rituals, beauty routines, and spells to rise above and beyond the limits of racism/classism and objectifications set by a male-dominated society. "A fierce and voluble refutation of the patriarchy and its soul-crushing oppression of female power. ![]() ![]() ![]() In May 2021, the series was renewed for a third season, subtitled Frenemies which premiered on August 31, 2022. In July 2020, the series was renewed for a second season, subtitled Summer School which premiered on August 10, 2021, exclusively on The CW. ![]() Stargirl premiered on DC Universe on the season consists of 13 episodes and also aired the following day on the broadcast network The CW. Filming for the series began in March 2019 in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Brec Bassinger was cast as Courtney Whitmore that September, with additional castings for her family members, the Justice Society of America, and the Injustice Society of America through February 2019. The series follows high school student Courtney Whitmore who discovers the cosmic staff originally wielded by Starman and becomes the inspiration for a new generation of superheroes who become the new incarnation of the Justice Society of America.ĭC Universe ordered the series in July 2018. It is based on the DC Comics superhero Courtney Whitmore, created by Johns and Lee Moder. DC's Stargirl, or simply Stargirl, is an American superhero television series created by Geoff Johns that premiered on streaming service DC Universe. ![]() ![]() In 1990 the 10 issues of DC material (reprint and original) were compiled into both a hardcover and trade paperback (TPB) collection. Lloyd contributed new covers and section dividers. Importantly, the entire comic was published in colour, including the older black and white material. V for Vendetta was bought by US major DC and from September 1988 they not only reprinted the original material in V for Vendetta #1–7, but Moore and Lloyd completed the series with new material published in issues #7–10 (finishing in May 1989). ![]() ![]() A deal was made with independent US company Pacific in 1984 to reprint all the Warrior strips, but they themselves collapsed and went into liquidation. ![]() V for Vendetta was serialized in all 26 issues of Warrior, but remained incomplete when the title folded, ending abruptly two episodes before the end of the second book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Amanda and Clay don’t know what to believe, and Alam’s writing palpably captures their uneasiness, vulnerability, and fear for their children, with the narrative at turns riveting and disconcerting but in the best way. Electricity is on at the rental home, and all seems well, but there is no phone signal or internet access. Their vacation bubble is abruptly burst when Ruth and G.H., the homeowners, unexpectedly come knocking late one night, bringing news of a major blackout in New York City. Initially, the book seems to be about a modern marriage and family, priorities and choices, and how one measures success in the 21st century, and it is. This latest from Alam ( That Kind of Mother) is so clever and so subtle that it draws readers into a false sense of security and understanding, much like that experienced by Amanda and Clay, who have brought their children to a lovely rental home on Long Island. ![]() ![]() ![]() A society of single men and prostitutes-among whom Eliza moves with the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en-California opens the door to a new life of freedom and independence for the young Chilean. As we follow her spirited heroine on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco and Northern California, we enter a world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever. So begins Isabel Allende’s enchanting novel Daughter of Fortune. Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of Northern California. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Int'l Women's Conference - México, 2013. ![]() Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony, 2017. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now they have something in common: they both want to take down manipulative Lady Gabriella Madison. Nina and Daphne have spent years competing for Prince Jefferson. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES The third book in the bestselling American Royals series is here, and a meeting of monarchs will test everyones loyalty to. Photo courtesy of Katharine McGee Pull out your fascinators and tiaras here’s your reason to have a royal summer. When she meets a glamorous foreign princess, she gets drawn into the inner circle…but at what cost? Rivals is the latest in Katharine McGees American Royals series. Is Sam destined to repeat her string of broken relationships…and this time will the broken heart be her own?īeatrice is representing America at the greatest convocation of kings and queens in the world. Princess Samantha is in love with Lord Marshall Davis-but the more serious they get, the more complicated things become. The third book in the New York Times bestselling American Royals series is here. The third book in the bestselling American Royals series is here, and a meeting of monarchs will test everyone's loyalty to the crown…and their own hearts.īeatrice is queen, and for the American royal family, everything is about to change. Buy a used copy of American Royals III: Rivals book by Katharine McGee. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gulea has done some changes to the original text and while they are not groundbreaking, they add more subtlety and actuality to Lungu's story. Emilia's memories are triggered by a conversation with her daughter who lives in Canada and has been building a successful life in a thoroughly capitalist country. ![]() Narrated in the first person by its protagonist, a pensioner whose glory days were happening before 1989, the apparently benign stories of her memories denote the inhumanity of an oppressive regime. Take the newest Romanian entry, for example: Sunt o babă comunistă is no less than a literary adaptation directed by no other than Stere Gulea, one of the most interesting directors this country has produced.ĭan Lungu's 2007 hit novel Sunt o babă comunistă!/I'm a Communist Biddy! is a pleasant and often amusing criticism of communist nostalgia. ![]() If there's one good thing about the end of summer it's that more grown-up films start hitting the cinemas.Īnd there's no moment to soon for that. ![]() ![]() ![]() The film’s biggest weakness is the way Gibney feints at a larger purpose without really carrying it out.įor viewers not already intimately informed on the Theranos scandal, The Inventor’s first act may seem like a frustrating pile-on of trivia without enough substance to tell the story it teases. ![]() But The Inventor doesn’t dig particularly far into that idea, or spend much time contextualizing Theranos in terms of other Silicon Valley startups that have soared or folded. It’s an inherently unstable model that sometimes works, and the rewards if it does can be tremendous. And it implies that the entire structure of the VC world encourages a “fake it ’til you make it” attitude toward technology, with people like Holmes pretending they’ve developed groundbreaking devices, then using the resulting investments to try to bootstrap the technology they claim they’ve already created. ![]() It hints that the Silicon Valley startup industry openly encourages companies to lie to investors, and that the lack of regulatory oversight makes it easy for charismatic liars to get away with outsized promises. There are hints, especially toward the end of The Inventor, that it’s going to explore a wider problem and find larger messages in the Theranos mess. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some books are so special that there is more than one hero to love, but only a single story is told. ![]() And Ned Blydon in Splendid by Julia Quinn.he makes me want to learn to waltz! I never thought living in a drafty castle would be much fun until Simon of Ravenswood in Master of Desire by Kinley MacGregor came along.Īnyway, I just wanted to let you know that these are my men - when do they get their stories Like Jake Linley, from Someone to Watch Over Me by Lisa Kleypas.that doctor could sit by my bedside if I ever got sick. Where are my heroes Whenever I'm reading a book by one of my favorite authors I find I'm falling for the wrong guy - not the hero, but the other man - and what I really want is for him to have his own story. ![]() |