The late 20th century & the turn of the millenniumĨ Towards a new heaven & a new earth. Romanticism, imaginative genius & cosmic epiphany Spiritual epiphanies & the emergence of new religions Social & political rebellions & awakeningsħ Awakenings of spirit & soul. Moral courage, facing the shadow & the tension of oppositesĦ Cycles of creativity & expansion. Historical determinism, realpolitik & apocalypse Religious rebellion & erotic emancipationĥ Cycles of crisis & contraction. Synchronic & diachronic patterns in history The evolving traditionĪrchetypal coherence & concrete diversityĤ Epochs of revolution. Two suitors: a parableģ Through the archetypal telescope. The birth of the modern selfįorging the self, disenchanting the worldĢ In search of a deeper order. importance.ġ The transformation of the cosmos. Whether read as astrology updated for the quantum age or as a contemporary classic of spirituality, Cosmos & Psyche is an important work of sophistication & learning. Drawing on years of research & on thinkers from Plato to Jung, Tarnas explores the planetary correlations of epochal events like the French Revolution, the world wars & 9/11. From a philosopher whose history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell & Huston Smith comes a book tracing the connection between cosmic cycles & archetypal patterns of experience.
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I felt similarly when I read Acevedo’s previous two novels: The National Book Award-winning The Poet X, a coming-of-age novel-in-verse about a teen growing up in Harlem, and her follow-up With the Fire on High, a magical realist story of a teenage single mom who dreams of becoming a chef.īut unlike many of the YA novels I read myself as a teenager, I actually saw pieces of my own journey reflected in each of Acevedo's protagonists. Satisfied by the book’s lyrical prose-in-verse, as well as its hopeful ending melancholy because the tale of two teenage sisters in New York and the Dominican Republic was so good, I mourned the fact that my preteen self didn’t have a book just like it. When I closed Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo earlier this summer, I felt both satisfied and melancholy. Originally titled "Heaven," "Fairy-Land" was written while Poe was at the United States Military Academy at West Point. See also the humorous tale " A Predicament". The poem is one of the few works by Poe to be written in the voice of a woman. Aldous Huxley made the same observation, calling the rhyme "ludicrous" and "horribly vulgar". He is referring to the name of the bride's dead lover, "D'Elormie", which he calls "patently a forced rhyme" for "o'er me" and "before me" in the previous lines. Poe biographer Daniel Hoffman says that "Bridal Ballad" is guilty of "one of the most unfortunate rhymes in American poetry this side of Thomas Holley Chivers". In marrying, she has broken her vow to this previous lover to love him eternally. Despite her reassurances that she is "happy," the poem has a somber tone as it recounts a previous love who has died. The poem is unusual for Poe because it is written in the voice of a woman, specifically a recently married bride. First published simply as "Ballad" in the January 1837 edition of the Southern Literary Messenger, it was later retitled as "Bridal Ballad" when it was printed in the Jedition of the Saturday Evening Post. He narrates three journeys: a hiking trip in Glacier National Park, full of stunning scenery and ruminations on the dispossession of Native Americans visits to an organic sheep farm in England in 2019, where he repaired stone walls and rails against agribusiness that use “chemicals and machinery” and a recent road trip from California to Illinois, during which he shuddered at unmasked diners and campers whose Trump flags brought to mind “a Klan hood.” Offerman extols the virtues of manual labor and communion with nature while denouncing “the dominant, white culture that. Parks and Recreation star and woodworker Offerman ( Gumption) ponders the goodness of the land and the corruptions of white, capitalist Trumpistan in this painfully woke and often misfiring memoir. So many of us have read Atomic Habits, and it’s so good.īG: But in this episode, we’re going to get to meet the man behind the book. This is part one of a two-part series that Brené is doing with James Clear on habits and his book, Atomic Habits, which has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 50 languages. More to come, I think we’re going to talk more about the book on the podcast in the upcoming weeks, but I did get to sneak away so that I could introduce the podcast for you this week. It’s really a culmination of Brené’s work over the last 25 years. Bryan and Cookie have been here trucking boxes up and down the stairs, getting ready for launch, and we could not be more excited about this book, y’all. We got four pallets full of our new book, Atlas of the Heart, that comes out November 30th. We’re still not fully back, but there are a few of us here from time to time, and this week we got the most special delivery. I’m up here at the office, I was just going to start with a little sneak peak into what’s been going on with us this week. Barrett Guillen: Hi everyone, I’m Barrett Guillen, and this is Dare to Lead. It's quite a strange collection, with the quality ranging from good to bad to just plain distasteful.ĭespite Otomo's film adaptation being of the same name as this collection, there is little relation as far as I can gather. Really glad to have gotten a hold of this - though it's not what I expected. Y además, se mutuoinfluenció con Mœbius, cosa que se nota, para bien, en muchos de los trabajos de ambos. Y si bien Otomo tiene varias virtudes compartidas con muchos de sus colegas mangakas (precioso dibujo, excelente narrativa, mucha expresividad facilidad para crear mundos de la nada, para inventar poderes bolaceros, para mezclar comedia y tragedia, etc.), también tiene buen ojo para temas no tan explorados entre la mayoría de los mangakas (los traducidos, al menos) como es la crítica social. Otomo no sólo sabe despacharse con obras geniales de más de dos mil páginas como Akira sino que también le pone magia a esas joyitas de historias cortas, tengan 50, 20 o 5 páginas. Esta antología incluye las historias Flor (a precioso color), Memories, El sonido de la arena, Adiós a las armas, Hair, La tierra de los pájaros eléctricos, Swing menor, Crónica(s) del Planeta Pulpo, Bola de fuego (una de las semillitas de Akira), La lámpara de Aladino, El arca de Noé, El viejo y el mar y Los caballeros de la mesa redonda.īásicamente: Putas. He emphasized Murdock’s Catholicism, because “only a Catholic could be a vigilante and an attorney at the same time.” But renowned scribe Frank Miller, known for his revolutionary reinterpretation of Batman in The Dark Knight Rises and comics like 300 and Sin City, held the pen for Daredevil in the ‘80s and dwelled on blindness as a theme. Turns out the blind community were fine and loved Daredevil. Is this some sort of a parody?’ I was nervous about it.” “I felt they would feel, ‘What’s this guy trying to do? We can’t do things like that. Imperfect heroes were the rage at Marvel at the time, but Lee saw blindness as the flaw he was looking for. In The Men Without Fear, a documentary included in the DVD of the 2003 Daredevil starring Ben Affleck, Stan Lee explained he only wanted to make another flawed superhero. However, when people think about Daredevil and Catholicism, they think Frank Miller. The dramatic story of Long-Term’s fall is now a chilling harbinger of the crisis that would strike all of Wall Street, from Lehman Brothers to AIG, a decade later. But after four years in which the firm dazzled Wall Street as a $100 billion moneymaking juggernaut, it suddenly suffered catastrophic losses that jeopardized not only the biggest banks on Wall Street but the stability of the financial system itself. When it was founded in 1993, Long-Term was hailed as the most impressive hedge fund in history. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein explains not just how the fund made and lost its money but also how the personalities of Long-Term’s partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the culture of Wall Street itself contributed to both their rise and their fall. In this business classic-now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis-Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride of Long-Term Capital Management. Collects Batman issues #655-658, #663-669 and #672-675. Most of his Rogues have been locked up, the Bat Family is at its fullest, and it seems there’s little left to challenge the Caped Crusader: enter fatherhood. Williams III ( Batwoman), the ripple effects of this graphic novel are still felt in DC's storytelling today. Jesse Delperdang (artist), Grant Morrison (author), Andy Kubert (author). Featuring art from two of the industry's most transcendent stars, Andy Kubert ( Flashpoint) and J.H. the hunt for his parents' killer!Ĭonsidered two of the most memorable and defining stories in creative powerhouse author Grant Morrison's celebrated run on the Dark Knight, Batman: Batman and Son is a tour de force of graphic storytelling. But after failing in his pursuit and being captured, Batman falls into a coma and his mind flashes back to a defining adventure in the life of a young Bruce Wayne. One of these imposters begins to kill cops, working his way towards Police Commissioner Jim Gordon. Meanwhile, mysterious Batman imposters begin to appear on the streets of Gotham. Batman receives the shock of his life when he discovers that he has a son, Damian Wayne! Trained by the League of Assassins, this offspring of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul isn't just the deadliest 10-year-old in the world-he's also intensely focused on being Batman's new sidekick. He has his own business where he has put his other talent of being able to fix all sorts of things to use. All heartbreaking, but some more than others. I liked that the story had a lot more going on and didn't just focus on the killing's. But I don't want to say much more because it would give too much away. August having the gift for finding is unfortunately the one who gets the first glimpse at them all. They are all around his age and are always found naked and strangled. They all have his brown hair and hazel eyes. We have a serial killer on the loose killing young gay men who just happen to resemble Augie. I didn't want to put it down and come up for air. There is lot happening in this book and it completely swallowed me whole. I love them even more when the psychic is evolved in helping a hot detective like, Luke. It's been nine years since he came into his gift at the young age of 16 and is now a volunteer consultant for the police department using his gift to help. He unfortunately finds more of the dead than the living. He finds victims of murder, rape, kidnappings, suicide, and people who are lost or have been in accidents. The blurb completely drew me at the mention of August having a psychic gift of finding people. |