![]() She is immortalised in possibly the world’s most haunting breakup song, So Long, Marianne – and in the 2019 documentary, Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love. Hydra (locals pronounce it “E-dra”) is where he met his Norwegian lover and muse Marianne Ihlen. James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images The next decade would be the making of him.Īmerican poet Charles Heckstall and Australian author Charmian Clift listen as Leonard Cohen plays guitar under his tree in October 1960. Still, she explains, when Cohen arrived on Hydra in 1960, he was a penniless failure. ![]() Were the womanising Ladies' Man still alive, Maria is precisely the kind of beautiful, intelligent woman he would have tried to hit on (though he’d have found a far more elegant term for it). ‘It’s just a few more steps,” says Maria Voulgari, my classically educated Greek guide as we explore Leonard Cohen’s Hydra – the idyllic island where he wrote most of his stunning debut album, The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967). ![]()
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![]() ![]() That's the fraught territory best-selling author and physicist Sean Carroll dives into with his new book Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime. But all too often over the last 100 years, this has been the case, as scientists have disagreed sharply over the meaning of their greatest and most potent theory known as quantum mechanics. While no one will be surprised to find these kinds of arguments playing out about immigration or the importance of NATO, finding it among staid physicists - and about the nature of physical reality - might not be so expected. It's hard to find any issue these days that people aren't ready to square off on, with sharp, snarky barbs. How?Įveryone knows we live in a partisan age. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Something Deeply Hidden Subtitle Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime Author Sean Carroll ![]() ![]() ![]() The DNA testing also proved that Ron's identification of the real culprit - another man in prison for rape - was correct. Finally, a kind lawyer from a local college and the advent of DNA testing proved what Ron had been saying all along: he did not commit the crimes he was being punished for. ![]() Ron ended up being in prison for eleven long years. Ron insisted he was innocent, but both Jennifer and the police were certain they had the right man, and he was sentenced to life in prison, plus 50 years. Days later, with the help of Jennifer's detailed composite sketch plus her identification through both photos and a line-up, the police arrested a man named Ronald Cotton. After she got away from the rapist, he went to another woman's home and raped her, too. ![]() During the rape, Jennifer played close attention to the man's face and tried to remember every detail, determined to help the police put him away if she survived this ordeal. He held a knife to her throat and raped her. ![]() She was awakened in the middle of the night by a black man next to her bed. In July 1984, Jennifer Thompson was a 22-year old college student living in Burlington, NC, in a small apartment near campus. This powerful and moving true story just blew me away. Last night, my neighborhood book group discussed a unique joint memoir, Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, with Erin Torneo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She responded to her relationship with Harry in the article, “We’re a couple. ![]() Meghan assured Harry that the article would be about her show Suits, which had its 100th episode at the time, and was “ecstatic” to be on the cover. Harry & Meghan Were Just in a ‘Near Catastrophic Car Chase’ With Paparazzi “Sunshine Sachs had demanded that the magazine satisfy Meghan’s requirement that she be presented as a philanthropist and activist, without considering one problem: Vanity Fair’s scrupulous researchers could find no evidence of her global philanthropy and activism,” the book read. The outlet reported that “Meghan was furious with her US public relations company, Sunshine Sachs.” The book then detailed the communication problem between the PR company and the publication. The headline for the cover read “She’s Just Wild About Harry,” and did not focus on her work as an activist and philanthropist. The cover of the magazine revealed her relationship with Prince Harry and she was not impressed with the way it was presented.Īccording to Page Six, the book Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors recalls a moment after Meghan’s Vanity Fair cover was released in 2017 when she got angry at a public relations firm for miscommunication. ![]() A new book about the Sussexes reveals that Meghan Markle was not happy about her Vanity Fair article. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the intervening years, Hwang has learned more of the details of the intriguing story of a French diplomat jailed for passing secrets to a Chinese opera performer, a woman who had been his mistress for two decades but was also acting as an agent of Mao’s Communist regime. At the time, the Vietnam War still shadowed our foreign policy toward Asia, and sexual minorities were still struggling to be portrayed sympathetically on stage and screen. ![]() His default manner is a bellicose masculinity, the very kind that playwright Hwang critiques, both directly and indirectly, in his Tony Award-winning play, which first opened on Broadway in 1988. All this while the feckless White House resident hasn’t the wit or empathy to speak in language that might bridge diverse communities. Issues of gender and assumed male sexual privilege are headline news, and misapprehensions about race shake the body politic. Butterfly comes at a propitious moment: the Imperialist American project is once again ripe for re-examination. ![]() THE BROADWAY revival of David Henry Hwang’s M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’m not trying to elicit shock, but I am trying to elicit a visceral response,” Taddeo says about her deliberate writing style in an exclusive interview with Belletrist + BookClub. Refusing to gloss over the harsh realities of womanhood, Taddeo confronts female stereotypes in a male-dominated world by creating a slightly unreliable female narrator who is all too in touch with the formidable parts of herself. Joan’s travels lead her to the hills above Los Angeles where she is forced to confront the event that has haunted her since childhood, and she finds her own form of revenge through her own sexuality. Taddeo’s novel follows Joan, a self-described “depraved” woman who experiences a horrific act of violence from a former lover that triggers her to set across America in search of a woman named Alice- someone she hopes can help her make sense of her troubled past. ![]() ![]() ![]() But first they must survive a bloody war in which rules are abandoned and chivalry itself is slaughtered. Heading ever deeper into enemy territory toward Crécy, this band of brothers knows they are off to fight a battle that will forge nations, and shape the very fabric of human lives. The fight for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe has begun. ![]() They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best days are behind him. July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during the Hundred Years’ War. He wrote and presented the popular Netflix series Secrets of Great British Castles, and has an exclusive deal with Sony Pictures Television to produce and develop historical TV series, including adaptations of his books. Dan Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of Powers and Thrones, Crusaders, The Templars, The Plantagenets, Wars of the Roses, and Magna Carta. ![]() ![]() They also discuss ageing, love, theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the role of the philosopher and of poetry in society. He considers the natures of existing regimes and then proposes a series of hypothetical cities in comparison, culminating in Kallipolis (Καλλίπολις), a utopian city-state ruled by a philosopher-king. In the dialogue, Socrates discusses the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man with various Athenians and foreigners. It is Plato's best-known work, and one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically. Politeia Latin: De Republica ) is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BCE, concerning justice ( δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. The Republic ( Greek: Πολιτεία, translit. Plato from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509–1511) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It looks at the big picture: serving others and glorifying God." Before you roll your eyes, moaning that this sounds terribly unromantic, know that Harris does a superb job of couching his convictions in the sincere belief that if we are purposeful in our singleness and date with integrity, a fulfilled marriage awaits us-in God's timing. Smart love looks beyond personal desires and the gratification of the moment. He refutes the concept that we are victims of "falling in love" (that it is beyond our control), saying that "God wants us to seek guidance from scriptural truth, not feeling. Harris contends that one must begin with a new attitude, viewing love, purity, and singleness from God's perspective rather than thinking that love and romance are to be enjoyed "solely for recreation." In such well-named chapters as "Guarding Your Heart" and "What Matters at Fifty," Harris encourages the reader to look at one's character rather than reveling in infatuation, to regard love as a truly selfless, biblical act rather than a feeling. ![]() In I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Joshua Harris exposes the "Seven Habits of Highly Defective Dating" and offers a realistic outline of how to have a biblical vision of marriage. While most Christians agree to seek purity and save sex for marriage, few have been given a blueprint for how that should affect their view of dating and love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The silkworm story, for example, is a seamless melding of Kafka and Marx - the former providing the example of a human metamorphosizing into an insect, the latter providing the analysis of a society in which workers become mere extensions of machinery. ![]() It is also important to note, in these stories, that no matter how bizarre or fantastic the plot and characters are we rarely lose sense of a familiar human situation. The least we can say about this mode of fiction is that it is good to have such variety of approach to the short story form - we don’t want a literary culture completely dominated by such queens of The New Yorker as Ann Beattie and Alice Munro. In similar fashion, what are we to make of the story “The Barn at the End of Our Term,” in which American presidents are reincarnated as horses, but retain their memories and personalities - so that Andrew Jackson, for example, “a stocky black quarter horse,” keeps spoiling for a fight and is lonely for an adversary to wage a political campaign against? Or what about the Japanese women in the story “Reeling for the Empire,” who literally turn themselves into silkworms, eating mulberry leaves to feed machines the silk from their bodies? This magical element, their vampire nature, represents how a relationship, at least in the beginning, makes a person feel less alone in the world. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]() |