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In The Long Crisis: New York and the Path to Neoliberalism, Benjamin Holtzman does an in-depth examination of the 50-year shift to neoliberal governance in America's largest city. Glyn Robbins writes that the book's detailed and…

Lars Eighner, who vividly recounted his experiences of homelessness in "Travels With Lizbeth," a book widely considered one of the best memoirs of decades, died Dec. 23 in Austin, Texas. He was 73 years old.Dori Weintraub, vice president…

The This by Adam Roberts (Gollancz, £16.99)Imagine a social media app implanted in the roof of the mouth for more immersive connectivity. This small step turns out to be a giant leap in human evolution, a kind of telepathy that brings…

Breadcrumb Links News Local News Publication date : January 14, 2022 • 21 minutes ago • 4 minute read • Join the conversation A photo of the actual "gang" depicted in the novel. SUBMITTED…

I first read the "Perfect Novel" ten years ago. I say the perfect novel because that's what John Williams' Stoner is called.When you read this, it will be Boxing Day and I'll be rereading the novel. That's what I do every Christmas, I…

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Shaken by the arrival of abstract art in the 20th century and threatened with being made irrelevant by much of contemporary art, figurative artists have long been used to having to fight. In recent years, however, the growing importance of…

TEHRAN - A book presenting joint studies by Iranian scholar Amir-Hossein Ramezani and American music critic and author David Hurwitz has been published. Ramezani and a large number of academics and musicians, including Nader…

Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize for his portrayal of a white South African family sailing towards the end of apartheid. The judges hailed The Promise as "a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think again", and…

HOrr fiction, says author Stephen Graham Jones, is booming right now. “It blooms, it blooms. I mean, nocturnal flowers, of course, with a bloody center. Probably flies crawling on these petals.Jones, a Blackfeet Native…

On the bookshelf Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane By Paul AusterHenry Holt: 800 pages, $ 35If you purchase related books from our site, The Times may earn a commission from…

A Redwater High School graduate and former Houston middle school teacher will have her story about a big-hearted pig and the boy who befriends published later this month. Released October 26 via Little, Brown and Company's Young…

Vancouver, British Columbia - (Newsfile Corp. - September 28, 2021) - Millennial Lithium Corp. (TSXV: ML) (FSE: A3N2) (OTCQX: MLNLF) ("Millennium"or the"Society") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Definitive Arrangement…

A mix of young and old, students and locals, families and pets gathered on the Southern Brewing Company…

Decades ago Mobile Suit Gundam helped fans around the world imagine a world far away in space. The game-changing anime not only revolutionized the mech genre, but its approach to space exploration and colonization…

On the bookshelf Once upon a time there were wolves By Charlotte McConaghyIron: 272 pages, $ 28If you buy related books from our site, The Times may earn a commission of Librairie.org, whose…

Whatever she wore, by Tiya Miles (Random House). This powerful story of women and slavery revolves around a 19th-century cotton bag found at a flea market in 2007, now on display at the Smithsonian. A slave woman named Rose gave it to…

Horror films take viewers on a whirlwind of stomach-knotting excursions. The suspense and fear breed an internal angst that forbids release until we reach that last moment and its only survivor - the last daughter. For the most part,…

July 10, 2021WASHINGTON DCPARENTS ARE scandalized by a new program. Politicians fear educators will indoctrinate students with a non-American revisionist history. Progressives argue that this updated version of the program reflects an…

Dilip Kumar and Ashokamitran could have met in Gemini studios and developed a friendship, which perhaps led the author to write "Manasarovar". The novel published in 1989 could easily have been based on the great actor In…

Meow, sir! French felines in New Orleans is a memorial of a son to his father, said the New Orleans author and a native of Alexandria Jim Gabour. During the last five months of Jimmie Gabour's life, his son amused him with different…

National Director of Recruitment Rivals Adam gorney and recruitment analyst Adam friedman in the same way Joseph hastings from BuckeyeGrove.com and Mike Singer from BlueandGold.com discuss three recruiting topics and determine whether or…

National Director of Recruitment Rivals Adam gorney and recruitment analyst Sam spiegelman in the same way Andrew Bone from BamaInsider.com and Matt Moreno from GoAZCats.com tackle three topics in recruiting and determine whether or not…