![]() The foundational article on Beowulf and monsters is J.R.R. Yet critics have always read it through the white gaze and a preserve of white English heritage. ![]() Indeed, Beowulf is a story about monsters, race, and political violence. Crucially, Grendel is never clearly described, but is named a “grim demon,” “god-cursed brute,” a “prowler through the dark,” a part of “Cain’s clan.” Years later, Beowulf deals with a dragon who is devastating his kingdom and dies while he and his thane, Wiglaf, are slaying the dragon. Beowulf, a warrior, lands in Hrothgar’s kingdom and kills Grendel but then must contend with Grendel’s mother who comes to enact revenge for her son’s murder. ![]() Grendel, the ghastly uninvited guest, kills King Hrothgar’s men at a feast in Heorot. ![]() Most readers of Beowulf understand it as a white, male hero story-tellingly, it’s named for the hero, not the monster-who slays a monster and the monster’s mother. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In expanding the story of Kim and her friends, the authors pay tribute to Black sisterhood through portraits of shared, yet deeply personal experiences of Black hair care. Inspired by her own wash day ritual and a desire to see more comics for and by women of color, Jamila Rowser collaborated with Robyn Smith to create the critically acclaimed mini comic, WASH DAY. S backs as they head triumphantly to the club for Kim' “Ride or Die†takes place on Saturday night, when the girls have each other' ![]() In “La Bendición,†Cookie receives an unexpected request from her estranged abuela and heals a family rift during a tender moment of hair care. “Bright Side†is a quiet portrait of Davene missing a hair appointment as she struggles with her mental health and gets well-meaning, but misguided support from Cookie. “Group Chat†sees Tanisha filling her many hours at the salon by texting her friends all her latest gossip. ![]() “Wash Day†follows Kim through the quiet self-care rituals of her wash day—the universal experience shared by Black women of setting aside all plans and responsibilities for a full day of hair care. From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel about the daily lives of four best friends in the Bronx, told through five interlocking short stories. ![]() ![]() The play was adapted to film in 1955 with Harris as Sally, Laurence Harvey as Isherwood, and Shelley Winters as Landauer.Ī musical adaption was originally developed by Sandy Wilson, the British composer of The Boyfriend, but his producer’s options on the source material lapsed and were acquired by Tony-winning producer-director Hal Prince, whose credits to that point included West Side Story(1957) and Fiddler on the Roof(1964). ![]() The production also earned a Tony for Marian Winters as Natalia Landauer, a character from “The Landauers” in the original Isherwood novel, who would return many years later in the Cabaretstory. John Van Druten, author of I Remember Mama, adapted the first novel into the 1951 play I Am a Camerathat starred a twenty-five-year-old Julie Harris as Sally Bowles, in the first of her five Tony Award-winning roles, and William Prince as a character based on author Isherwood. The novel was also published as part of a collection published in 1945 as The Berlin Stories. The stories focused on Jews, gays, and others who would soon be oppressed by the rising Nazi regime. ![]() The novel Goodbye to Berlinby British author Christopher Isherwood – actually a series of six short stories and novellas including one titled “Sally Bowles” – was first published in 1939. ![]() The arc of Cabaretas a force on the cultural landscape reaches back eight decades. ![]() ![]() He was a practiced statesman, a skilled diplomat, and a man deeply devoted to his family and country. But Hannibal was much more than just a great general. As a commander in war, Hannibal has few equals in history and has long been held as a model of strategic and tactical genius. ![]() ![]() As a military leader, like Alexander the Great before him and Julius Caesar after, he understood the hearts of men and had an uncanny ability to read the unseen weaknesses of his enemy. As a boy and then a man, his self-discipline and determination were legendary. But what kind of person would dare to face the most relentless imperial power of the ancient world? How could Hannibal, consistently outnumbered and always deep in enemy territory, win battle after battle until he held the very fate of Rome within his grasp? Hannibal appeals to many as the ultimate underdog-a Carthaginian David against the Goliath of Rome-but it wasn't just his genius on the battlefield that set him apart. Over two thousand years ago one of the greatest military leaders in history almost destroyed Rome. Hannibal, a daring African general from the city of Carthage, led an army of warriors and battle elephants over the snowy Alps to invade the very heart of Rome's growing empire. Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history. ![]() Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history. ![]() ![]() ![]() This paper explores the intermingled violence and care of endangered species conservation. Here each of these vignettes is taken from our recent work in Hawai'i, a deeply gen-erative and often fraught field site that has inspired much of our thinking. The second is performative, offering short ethographic vignettes that enact some of the qualities and approaches we have discussed. One is expository and lays out an analysis of ethos, liveliness, storytelling, " response-ability, " and becoming witness. This article alternates between two types of writing. ![]() Most of our work in this area has focused on extinction, but this approach might readily be taken up in a range of other contexts. Our aim is to develop " lively ethographies " : a mode of knowing, engaging, and storytelling that recognizes the meaningful lives of others and that, in so doing, enlivens our capacity to respond to them by singing up their character or ethos. ![]() This is an approach grounded in an attentiveness to the evolving ways of life (or e ¯ thea singular: ethos) of diverse forms of human and nonhuman life and in an effort to explore and perhaps restory the relationships that constitute and nourish them. This article is an effort to dwell with the kinds of writing and thinking practices that we have been developing in our research, especially over the past seven years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ryan is a former Marine and a brilliant CIA analyst who’s been the architect of some of the CIA’s biggest coups but this time he’s in enemy territory with a professional assassin on his tail. It’s a job Deputy Director James Greer can only trust to one man-Jack Ryan. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector. It’s an offer they can’t pass up…if it’s genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly stumble into a deal. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer-invaluable details of his government’s espionage plans in return for asylum. In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's 1 New York Times bestselling series. ![]() The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. Tom Clancy Red Winter (A Jack Ryan Novel) Hardcover December 6, 2022. In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Ī top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. ![]() ![]() ![]() But there's only so much of me to go around. That I get from my Missed Connection, the romantic stranger who never fails to make me swoon. Gorgeous and wealthy, hot as sin, Jack can give me everything I need-except an emotional connection. Of course, the moment I finally find that Missed Connection, real life comes crashing down in a night of unbridled passion with totally off-limits Jack. To cope, I spend my nights cruising Missed Connections, dreaming of finding an uber-romantic entry all about me. What should have been a sizzling NYC summer has been hijacked by demanding bosses. Torn between the bad boy she can't keep and a sensitive stranger who bares his soul online, her heart and body are in two very different relationships.or are they? You've Got Mail meets The Devil Wears Prada when Sarah can't get sexy-but off-limits-Jack out of her head. Readers looking for an escape and a few good chuckles will enjoy this escapade."-RT Book Reviews ![]() "The narrative and dialogue are fast-paced and sassy, and the chemistry between the protagonists is quite sultry. ![]() ![]() ![]() The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. Jet is not the only one in danger-the curse is already at work.Ī frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. ![]() “Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant” ( The New York Times Book Review) in this breathtaking conclusion to the Practical Magic series-a spellbinding and bewitching novel that asks how far will you go to change your fate?įor over three-hundred years a curse has kept the Owens family from love-but all of that is about to change. ![]() ![]() I disagree with nearly everything in them, with one exception. We believe that every person's story is important as it provides our community with an opportunity to feel a sense of belonging, share their hopes and dreams. After learning from the best, I built the most remarkable relationship & life with my love. The Autobiography of A Yogi inspired him greatly later in life. "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" author John Gray with his wife, Bonnie, at their Hill Top Ranch on the Mendocino Coast celebrating their 27th wedding anniversary. Organise, control, distribute, and measure all of your digital content. Gray runs through things women prepare for: meals, children, their appearance, relationship, and so on. We encourage readers to refer to the online updates from. ![]() He is an avid follower of his own health and relationship advice. The cure for overwhelm + stress is here: a simple yet powerful21-minute morning system that melts stress and gives you more energy through 6 science-backedpracticesand breathwork. So what I did was to spend some time apologizing for being late. ![]() ![]() Gray has been profiled in Newsweek, People and Forbes magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mentally melting down as she drives away from the cabin for the final time, Mae throws out what she thinks is a simple plea to the universe: Please. She's living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.īut perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in the world-the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. ![]() It's the most wonderful time of the year.but not for Maelyn Jones. ![]() One Christmas wish, two brothers, and a lifetime of hope are on the line for hapless Maelyn Jones in In a Holidaze, the quintessential holiday romantic novel by Christina Lauren, the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners. ![]() |