Percival Everett’s novels seem to ward off the lazier hermeneutics of literary criticism, yet they also have a way of dangling the analytical ropes with which we critics hang ourselves. His latest novel follows the misadventures of a runaway named Jim and his young companion Huckleberry in the antebellum American South. As in another novel … Read more
The publisher/editor-in-chief of YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine, Azuh Arinze, has just rounded off work on two new books. Titled “Anything And Everything Journalism and My Story Of Many Colours,” the first book is basically a journalism “Bible”, featuring 37 accomplished journalists cutting across print, broadcast and online, who shared their success stories as well as the … Read more
It was indeed a “normal” election in that respect, responding not least to the outburst of “normal” politics with which Hitler had littered his program: he had, in the months beforehand, damped down his usual ranting about Jews and bankers and moneyed élites and the rest. He had recorded a widely distributed phonograph album (the … Read more
In 1979, a group called Women Against Pornography opened an office in what was then, in the organizers’ view, the belly of the beast: Times Square. WAP members, predominantly white feminists, who believed that porn had the power to reinforce, and even breed, misogyny, led others who shared their views on eye-opening tours of the … Read more
NBA star Steph Curry on new children’s book – CBS News Watch CBS News NBA star Stephen Curry sits down with Jericka Duncan to discuss his new children’s book and the inspiration behind it. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Read … Read more
“Today, we turn a page in the book of our nation’s history. A history we write together. Not just because I have the honour of becoming the first Black leader in any European country — but because the generational dial has jumped too,” he told party members. Born in the former British colony of Zambia, … Read more
Held, by Anne Michaels (Knopf). This episodic, philosophical novel orbits a group of loosely connected characters living between 1917 and 2025. It begins in France, during the First World War, with a British soldier lying on the ground after an explosion. We follow him home to North Yorkshire, where he works as a portrait photographer … Read more
Liz Truss’ journey from Downing Street to ‘deep state’ conspiracist – POLITICO Skip to main content Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to … Read more
The Roman god Janus was possessed of two faces, one pointing toward the future and one looking backward into the past, and it is tempting to imagine that these faces must also have worn contrasting expressions, one brighter and hopeful, the other rueful or even aghast. Supposing you knew such a person, how would you … Read more
“There’s a video of Gal Gadot having sex with her stepbrother on the internet.” With that sentence, written by the journalist Samantha Cole for the tech site Motherboard in December, 2017, a queasy new chapter in our cultural history opened. A programmer calling himself “deepfakes” told Cole that he’d used artificial intelligence to insert Gadot’s … Read more
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