[ad_1] Steven Veerapen PIC: Kirsty Anderson Historians despised historical novels. Now they write them down and can even acknowledge a debt to genre stars such as Hilary Mantel. In this first novel, Steven Veerapen even boldly ventures into his territory. Although Thomas Cromwell does not appear, his first master, Cardinal Wolsey is center stage, magnificently […]
[ad_1] Julian Barnes PIC: Stuart C Wilson/Getty Images The blurb tells us “it’s more than a novel”, an odd remark if only because it seems to devalue novel writing. Jane Austen disapproved of such things. “Nothing but a novel! ‘ – or, in short, only a work in which the deepest knowledge of human nature, […]
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[ad_1] Four new books explore the criminal justice system and people recovering from long sentences.The Canadian Press With the pandemic moving away from the daily news cycle, there is room in our collective psyche to contemplate other issues. Among them: mass incarceration. The public may be emerging from two years of isolation, but, of course, […]
[ad_1] Journal staff report Maternal Mitochondria, the cross-generational art duo of Miriam Sagan and Isabel Winson-Sagan, will present a new book art exhibit, “Lending Library of the Invisible,” at the Southside Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive, Santa Fe. The show opens the May 6 and ends May 31. The exhibition features collaborative books that the mother-daughter […]
[ad_1] After being canceled in 2020 and going virtual in 2021 due to the pandemic, the San Antonio Book Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary with in-person programming on Saturday, May 21. The annual free festival brings together a wide variety of authors from across Texas. and the nation, and this year’s lineup includes acclaimed […]
[ad_1] Ellen DeGeneres is releasing all the celebrity stops for the latest episodes of her daytime chat series. Former First Lady Michelle Obama, tennis phenom Serena Williams, veteran comedian David Letterman and reality TV star Kim Kardashian are just some of the guests who will appear on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ ahead of the finale. […]
[ad_1] With his biography on Raj Kapoor, Rahul Rawail does not seek to ruffle feathers or offer thrills on the cheap. He’s clearly in awe of the person he’s writing about, and that subjectivity is at the heart of the book. Did you know that filmmaker Rahul Rawail, who launched the careers of Bollywood actors […]
[ad_1] “It is not easy to write about abstract painting,” the late artist Louise Fishman once said, expressing both general truth and personal concern. Perhaps finding that paper – a medium for verbal and visual articulation – was most helpful in helping him resolve this dilemma, Fishman annotated several of his works on paper with […]
[ad_1] Kelley Blue Book’s annual Best Buy Awards are out. To mark the occasion, KBB.com has commissioned a one-of-a-kind piece of art from Atlanta-based digital artist Bloo Woods. It describes the evolution of the automobile since the debut of Kelley Blue Book in 1926. It ends with this year’s best new winning model, the Ford […]
[ad_1] San Antonio artist Noé González Garza drew on his own memories for the illustrations for “Glove for a Lady,” a new children’s book about a visit then-President Lyndon Johnson made to a Cotulla school in 1966. “I remember you could feel the excitement, the energy, because Cotulla is a city at a traffic light,” […]
[ad_1] When did the concept of the individual appear in Western Europe? According to Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, writing in the mid-19th century, it was during the Italian Renaissance, from the end of the 13th century. However, in 1972 Colin Morris, who died at the age of 93, challenged this still widely held orthodoxy with […]
[ad_1] To hear more audio stories from publications like the New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. One August night in 2020, David Graeber – the anthropologist and anarchist activist who rose to fame as one of the early organizers of Occupy Wall Street – took to Twitter to make a modest announcement. […]