![]() The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations-whether he's reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon). IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages The breathtaking tale of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game, Reamde is a new high-and a new world-for the remarkable Neal Stephenson. With Reamde, this visionary author whose mind-stretching fiction has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace-not to mention William Gibson and Michael Crichton-once again blazes new ground with a high-stakes thriller that will enthrall his loyal audience, science and science fiction, and espionage fiction fans equally. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling." ![]()
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![]() Defending his innocence against charges that are never explained to him, he watches his life dissolve into absurdity. He is subjected to hearings, questioning, and visits from officials. Thirty-year-old Josef K., a financial officer in a European city bank, is suddenly arrested. ![]() Now Kafka's enigmatic novel regains its humor and stylistic elegance in a new translation based on the restored original manuscript. Fortunately, Brod ignored his friend's wishes and published The Trial, which became the author's most famous work. If Max Brod had obeyed Franz Kafka's dying request, Kafka's unpublished manuscripts would have been burned, unread. ![]() ![]() Their efforts began before World War II and the Brown decision and persisted past the 1964 Civil Rights Act andanti-busing protests. Women like Nell Battle Lewis, Florence Sillers Ogden, Mary Dawson Cain, and Cornelia Dabney Tucker publicized threats to their Jim Crow world through political organizing, private correspondence, and journalism. Without these mundane, everyday acts, white supremacist politics could not have shaped local, regional, and national politics the wayit did or lasted as long as it has.With white women at the center of the story, the rise of postwar conservatism looks very different than the male-dominated narratives of the resistance to Civil Rights. ![]() They instilled beliefs in racial hierarchies in their children, built national networks, and experimented with a color-blind political discourse. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white women performed myriad duties that upheld white over black: censoring textbooks, denying marriage certificates, deciding on the racial identity of their neighbors, celebrating school choice, canvassing communities for votes,and lobbying elected officials. ![]() Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. ![]() Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the author of Fantasian, a novella from Badlands Unlimited. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The Paris Review Daily, the Nation, Dazed, and elsewhere. Larissa Pham is a writer and antiviolence advocate. A graduate of Brooklyn College MFA and Vassar College, she lives in Brooklyn, NY. Nandini Islam is the founder of Hi Wildflower, a fragrance and beauty house. Tanwi Nandini Islam is the author of Bright Lines (Penguin 2015), a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, and the inaugural selection of the First Lady of NYC's Gracie Book Club. ![]() ![]() His first book, "A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific," was published last year. He serves on the board of the Asian American Writers' Workshop. Hua Hsu teaches at Vassar College and contributes to the New Yorker. Please join Book Culture and Columbia University's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month on Friday, April 21st at 7pm for a reading with Hua Hsu, Tanwi Nandini Islam, Larissa Pham, and Tony Tulathimutte. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is currently based out of Southern Michigan with her dogs, where she spends most of her days chilling lakeside or on hiking trails with a camera in hand. 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![]() ![]() He does not grow more charitable or kind to his family or his peers. If anything, his various methods of self-discipline make him more irritable. He finds it difficult to maintain a state of saintly serenity. At times, he is gripped by a great, spiritual love for God and His Creation.īut before long, Stephen's old independence begins to reassert itself. ![]() He prays fervently, and attends mass every day. He forces different forms of unpleasantness on himself to punish each of his five senses. ![]() He sweeps away any doubts or misgivings he has with the idea that at a later stage of his spiritual development, all will be clear. Stephen becomes almost fanatically pious, devoting himself daily to prayer and contemplation of Catholic doctrines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung-fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes - whose considerable charms fall to Biff to sample, since Josh is forbidden the pleasures of the flesh. Meanwhile, Raziel will order pizza, watch the WWF on TV, and aspire to become Spider-Man. That's why the angel Raziel has resurrected Biff from the dust of Jerusalem and brought him to America to write a new gospel, one that tells the real, untold story. Ever since the day when he came upon six-year-old Joshua of Nazareth resurrecting lizards in the village square, Levi bar Alphaeus, called "Biff,"had the distinction of being the Messiah's best bud. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years - except Biff. The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. ![]() ![]() Felicity reveals her pregnancy to her husband and pleads with him to find a safer job if they escape, and he agrees. Fox triggers a fox trap caging himself along with his wife Felicity. ![]() The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score, losing both awards to Up. However, it underperformed at the box office, grossing just $46.5 million against a $40 million budget. ![]() ![]() Released in the United States on November 13, 2009, to critical acclaim, with praise for Anderson's direction, humor, and stop-motion animation. In 2007, Revolution and Selick left for other projects work on the film was moved to 20th Century Fox, where production began in 2007. Fox (Clooney), as his spree of thefts results in his family, and later his community, being hunted down by three farmers known as Boggis (Robin Hurlstone), Bunce ( Hugo Guinness), and Bean ( Michael Gambon).ĭevelopment on the project began in 2004 as a collaboration between Anderson and Henry Selick (who worked with Anderson on the 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) under Revolution Studios. The plot follows the titular character Mr. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson star. The project is based on the 1970 children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. ![]() Fox is a 2009 American stop motion animated comedy film directed by Wes Anderson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Noah Baumbach. ![]() |