![]() ![]() A welcome update of a classic-Galeano's gift to the game he loves." Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Since its first publication in 1995 (as Football in Sun and Shadow), this book has been relentlessly quoted, and for good reason. ![]() On virtually every page, Galeano uses a phrase or sentence that will leave readers in awe of his gifts. over all, the book is a winning celebration of the beautiful game." New York Times Book Review "A poetic history that sets the book apart from others.Galeano's Catholic upbringing, socialist politics, and the injustice he's seen as a journalist seeps into his commentary, and gives his narrative a refreshing perspective that captures soccer's spiritual roots, corruption by greed, and role as a global equalizer that puts royals and dictators at the mercy of minorities and slum kids." Publishers Weekly "This updated edition serves as a reminder that this is not just a classic sports book. In soccer, Galeano finds both a reflection and extension of everything he loves and finds maddening about the part of the world that has been the central focus of his writing for decades." Dave Zirin "Between poetic descriptions of scores by famous players, Galeano provides political context and commentary. Named one of the "Top 100 Sports Books of All Time" by Sports Illustrated "Soccer in Sun and Shadow is the most lyrical sports book ever written. ![]()
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This was all triggered by last years’ Cannonball Book Exchange, where ElCicco was kind enough to send me the three main entries in the The Machinaries of Empire series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Should I read …?’, ‘What’s that book?’ posts, sales links, piracy, plagiarism, low quality book lists, unmarked spoilers (instructions for spoiler tags are in the sidebar), sensationalist headlines, novelty accounts, low effort content. Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Suggested Reading page or ask in: /r/suggestmeabook Quick Rules:ĭo not post shallow content. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!. ![]() Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.Mon at 1pm, Michelle Lam Author of Meesh the Bad Demon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yolen has also criticized the Harry Potter series: In the children's writing community, she is known for her pithy observations and her generosity toward beginning writers and illustrators. Some of her awards to date: the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Awards, both first and second place in the 2007 Dwarf Stars Award, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, the Association of Jewish Libraries Award, and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Many of her poems, like her books, have won awards. Yolen said that writing poems and short stories comes to her more naturally, but that she has tried to master the longer form when a particular story called for it. ![]() Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens, Favorite Folktales From Around the World, Xanadu and Xanadu 2 are among the works that she has edited. This latter anthology was edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Yolen also has a gift for the very short story, as evidenced by "Angelica" in 100 Great Fantasy Short-Short Stories. ![]() One example is "Memoirs of a Bottle Djinni" in Arabesques (edited by Susan Schwartz in 1988). Her many short stories can be found in books as diverse as Am I Blue?: Coming out from the Silence and Briar Rose (The Fairy Tales Series). Newsweek called Jane Yolen "the Hans Christian Andersen of America" and The New York Times labeled her "a modern equivalent of Aesop." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because one of the ‘morals’ of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ – if ‘moral’ is not too strong a word to use of such a story – is that the husband’s treatment of his wife’s mental illness only succeeds in making her worse, rather than better, until her condition reaches the point where she is completely mad, suffering from hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia. Why else, wonders the story’s female narrator, would the house be available so cheaply unless it was haunted? And why had it remained unoccupied for so long? This is how many haunted house tales begin.Īnd this will turn out to be true, in many ways – the story is often included in anthologies of horror fiction, and there is a ‘haunting’ of a kind going on in the story – but as ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ develops we realise we’re reading something far more unsettling than a run-of-the-mill haunted house story, because the real ghosts and demons are either inside the narrator’s troubled mind or else her own husband and her sister-in-law. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ begins by dangling the idea that what we are about to read is a haunted house story, a Gothic tale, a piece of horror. ![]() ![]() ![]() And by reading the letters we feel that we are getting to the essence not only of Rilke's poetry, but of poetry itself, or of a kind of poetry. They are the best way for the non-German speaker to get a hold of Rilke – the poetry is notoriously hard to translate. James refers, with withering sarcasm, to "admirers of Rilke's spiritual refinement".Īnd yet there are the poems, and these letters. Clive James said his "bread and butter" letters were "nauseating", and in his Cultural Amnesia justly skewers him for using veiled antisemitism to scupper Karl Kraus's chances with one of the women Rilke himself loved. ![]() Here is a string of damning adjectives from the TLS a couple of years ago: "vain, self-pitying, obsessive, narcissistic, snobbish, whining, arrogant, childish, demanding, lachrymose and neurotic, as well as being given to tantrums and panics". ![]() ![]() Here is Michael Wood: "Unspeakably phoney in everything except his writing, snobbish, evasive, preachy and calculating as only the unworldly are". F irst, let us admit that there is a Rilke problem: Rilke. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now for the first time in English "Introduction to Magic" collects the rites, practices, and knowledge of the UR group for the use of aspiring mages. ![]() So successful were they that rumors spread throughout Italy of the group's power, and Mussolini himself became quite fearful of them. Their methods: the practice of ancient Tantric and Buddhist rituals and the study of rare Hermetic texts. Their goal: to bring their individual egos into a state of superhuman power and awareness in which they could act "magically" on the world. In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian intellectuals formed the mysterious UR group. ![]() ![]() Includes instructions for developing psychic and magical powers. Rare Hermetic texts published in English for the first time. The rites, practices, and texts collected by the mysterious UR group for the use of aspiring mages. ![]() ![]() Still on a very successful, ever-growing world tour with a comedy-poetry show that keeps them away from home, ALOK cultivates wonder like their favorite house plants, challenging what society deems normal, always curious, and eager to deconstruct how we came to be, how it can be harmful to us, and how we can collectively change things for ourselves and future generations. ![]() ![]() Their feat of arms? Turning the societal status quo over its head while conjuring a life worth living (not merely existing) for themselves and for others, through beautifully crafted and sharply delivered essays, poems, and speeches. Unbothered, the Texas-born, NYC-resident artist is accustomed to being at the center of heated… debates. After weeks – months, even –of preparation and trepidation, Alok Vaid-Menon, one of the most recognizable faces on social media of the gender non-conforming movement and LGBTQIA+ rights activism finally touched down in France for our scheduled photoshoot on one of the hottest days to date in the City of No Air-Conditioning, Paris. ![]() |