![]() ![]() Amazons feature in almost every account of ancient war, both mythical and historical, from the plains of Troy to the Athenian Areopagus, from the Trojan Aeneas’s struggle to conquer Italy and found Rome to Alexander the Great’s farthest eastern campaigns. Scarcely a classical temple did not feature a sculpted scene of battling Amazons, dressed in patterned leggings and felt caps with ear-flaps. These mythological warrior women were also among the most omnipresent figures in the art and literature of the ancient Greeks and Romans. As a warrior woman, skilled in archery and equestrianism, who rejects patriarchy and lives free from male control, the Amazonian archetype has inspired and provided a point of comparison with countless powerful or unconventional females, from Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great to Wonder Woman and Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games. The Amazon of classical mythology retains a powerful presence in contemporary culture. Princeton University Press, 536pp, £19.95 The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World ![]()
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![]() ![]() Mel calls Ed ‘dangerous’ but Terri still has sympathy for him, though she concedes how Ed made Mel’s life very difficult with his constant threats. Mel says how Terri stayed up with Ed in the hospital beside his deathbed. Even this fatal attempt proved flimsy as Ed did not die immediately, suffering for some days before succumbing to his injury. And then one day Ed shot himself in the head. Unsuccessful at this suicide attempt, Ed took to threatening Mel. For one, Ed drank rat poison when Terri left him. Mel then goes on to enumerate the ways Ed caused problems in Terri’s and his lives. At this point in the story, it becomes clear how dearly Nick and Laura love each other. ![]() Also, Nick and Laura hold that the definition of love cannot be absolute. Nick and Laura both reply that it is hard for them to pronounce any sort of judgments regarding this matter since they know very little about the incidents, and more importantly, they have not lived in Ed’s or Terri’s, and Mel’s shoes. Mel and Terri debate this point for a while and then ask Nick and Laura for their perspectives. However, Terri insists that Ed loved her in ‘his own way’. Terri asks, sincerely, “What do you do with love like that?” Mel, however, replies, “My God, don’t be silly. Terri says how Ed beat her up one night, dragging her around the living room by her ankles, saying how he loved her. Mel is a cardiologist whose second wife, Terri, was in an abusive relationship with a man named Ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() One thing I do have in common with Kabi is that I have some depression and anxiety, something which can be remarkably hard to figure out! My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is the best “this is how depression and anxiety can make you feel” story I’ve ever seen. Rather, it was coming to understand her sexuality that helped Kabi sort out other pieces of her life, things and mindsets that felt perfectly normal and fine but in hindsight were not, and this ties her autobiographical story into the rare, natural-feeling character arc. Nagata Kabi’s life is many things and while her lesbian identity is an important aspect of that, it is not the only aspect of her life and I hope that people don’t see this title and walk away because they aren’t lesbians. ![]() Helen: I am neither a lesbian nor afraid of my loneliness, but My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness still described me better than many others have tried. ![]() ![]() In these hazardous times, America will need strong guidance. America's usual ally against aggression, Europe, is weakened by economic decline the U.S is facing this new threat without backup. Extremists move from random attacks of violence to plots to take control of positions of political influence. Setting the Stage: The border of India and Pakistan has long been one of the planet's most precarious ticking time bombs waiting to explode, and when a scheme to agitate the tensions in that region is successful, it paves the way for powerful men to begin consolidating authority and start building an Islamic Caliphate. They have the most up-to-date technological innovations ready for battle: railguns, unmanned drone tank vehicles, exoskeleton suits, and cyber warfare. ![]() In the wake of this power vacuum, China and Russia begin to flex their military muscles and expand their dominance in the world. With the military cut to a barebones level and American leaders focused solely on the nation's internal struggles, the door will open for new powers to emerge on the world stage. ![]() ![]() In the not-too-distant future, the United States loses its status as a world Superpower. ![]() ![]() Morton begins to doubt Drake and withholds funding for NERF. Drake is obsessed with promoting the theory of global warming as a catastrophe, in part to bolster the case. ![]() ![]() Drake and his team are preparing for a lawsuit filed by the Pacific island Vanutu against the United States, who it charges as responsible for the global warming causing rising sea levels that threaten the nation. These include the philanthropist Morton, his lawyer Peter Evans, and NERF’s director Nicholas Drake. Researchers John Kenner and Sanjong Thapa, while tracking ELF, cross paths with associates of the National Environmental Research Fund (NERF). Later, these events all prove to be connected to the eco-terrorist group, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). ![]() Part 1, “Akamai,” opens by describing seemingly unrelated events: the mysterious death of a researcher in Paris named Jonathan Marshall, and the purchase of industrial equipment in Malaysia. ![]() ![]() ![]() As they grow closer, he discovers that convincing K.C. back into his life-except what he thought was a great twist of luck turns out to be too close for comfort. She was the one girl who wouldn’t give him the time of day and the only one to ever say no. was supposed to stay away from in high school. Jaxon Trent is the worst kind of temptation and exactly what K.C. Now she’s stuck in her small hometown for the summer to complete her court-ordered community service, and to make matters worse, trouble is living right next door. Carter has always followed the rules-until this year, when a mistake leaves her the talk of her college campus and her carefully arranged life comes crashing to a halt. Jaxon is the guy she’s supposed to avoid. ![]() ![]() Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books ![]() ![]() ![]() The strip debuted in The Diamondback under editor Jayson Blair on December 3, 1996, paying McGruder $30 per strip-$17 more than other cartoonists. The Boondocks animated TV series premiered on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming November 6, 2005. McGruder sold the television and film rights for the strip to Sony Pictures Entertainment. ![]() McGruder's syndicate said it was among the biggest launches the company ever had. A popular and controversial strip, The Boondocks satirizes African American culture and American politics as seen through the eyes of young, black radical Huey Freeman. As it gained popularity, the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate and made its national debut on April 19, 1999. Created by McGruder in 1996 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, the strip moved from the college pages and was printed in the monthly hip hop magazine The Source in 1997. The Boondocks was a daily syndicated comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder that ran from 1996 to 2006. ![]() Clockwise from top: Huey Freeman, Michael Caesar, Hiro Otomo, Riley Freeman, Cindy McPherson ![]() ![]() ![]() In the tradition of Alice Munro and William Trevor, these exquisitely rendered fictions encompass whole lives in a brief space. And in "The Littoral Zone," two marine biologists wonder whether their life-altering affair finally was worth it. In "The English Pupil," Linnaeus, in old age, watches as the world he organized within his head slowly drifts beyond his reach. In "Ship Fever," the title novella, a young Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history's most tragic epidemics. ![]() Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. "The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Due to the use of white cloth and white paper for the jacket the book is rarely found this clean and bright. 8vo, publisher s white cloth lettered in gilt, in the original dustjacket. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Housewives whose criminal knowledge comes from street smarts and crime shows make for interesting criminals. And then another woman asks for similar help. But she’s “eating her own salt” and free.Īll is just fine until a woman within the same loan group, one whose face bears the same marks Geeta’s once did, approaches and asks her to “remove my nose ring.” Farah thinks Geeta has already killed one man, so what’s another? When Farah’s husband puts Geeta’s livelihood at risk, she agrees to help. Now, she has no husband and despite being in Saloni’s loan group, she has no friends. Before he’d left, he’d alienated her from her family and her closest friend, Saloni. His leaving was the greatest gift he’d ever given her. She removed her nose ring, lived alone as a widow, making jewelry and saving her money for a refrigerator. ![]() Geeta’s no-good husband disappeared a few years ago, and rumors flew she killed him. This novel was on my radar before making the Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist, and it’s hilarious. Take “Goodbye Earl” (or, more recently, Taylor Swift’s take on the same theme with “No Body, No Crime”), set it in India and change Mary Ann and Wanda to Geeta and Saloni and you’ve got Parini Shroff’s debut The Bandit Queens (Ballantine Books 2022). “If she was this lonely, Geeta berated herself, she should get a damn dog.” “She’d first eaten her father’s salt, then her husband’s it was time to eat her own.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Young John, who was also implicated in the assassination plot, subsequently became the most wanted man in America. The son of co-conspirator Mary Surratt, who was hanged for her role in the plot to assassinate Lincoln, young Surratt was on a mission in Elmira, N.Y., on the night the Lincolns attended Ford’s Theatre. John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth’s most elusive accomplice, was serving as a courier and agent for the Confederate government when he also became an intermediary for Booth in December 1864. Jampoler, and Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, by James L. Two standouts among them are The Last Lincoln Conspirator: John Surratt’s Flight From the Gallows, by Andrew C.A. In addition to all the books about Abraham Lincoln being published this year to honor his bicentennial, many others explore the people in his life and his tragic death. CWT Book Reviews: The Last Lincoln Conspirator and Chasing Lincoln’s Killer Close ![]() |