We are particularly interested in the rise of identitarian movements and ideologies, and their transnational influence and reach. We trace the development of the alt-right as a series of disparate coalitions of far-right and (white) ethnonationalist groups, activists and ideologies – secular and religious – and their use of online platforms to proselytise, recruit and radicalise. While the perpetrator exhibited many of the longstanding ideological beliefs and violent tactics of white supremacists, his “manifesto” reflected the influence and rise of the alt-right, with a focus on the “great replacement”, the participation in online subcultures and new versions of conspiracies (as well as old ones). The country was not exempt from such activist, murderous politics, despite widespread complacency. The massacres of Maat two Christchurch mosques confirmed the far right remains a constant threat to public order and safety in New Zealand, and that this threat was largely overlooked by security and intelligence agencies.īoth elements were corroborated by the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the attacks that was released in November 2020.
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June 1940: At the start of World War II, Elspeth’s daughter, Margaret, has fallen for a pilot in the Royal Air Force. But as World War I engulfs Europe and David volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western front, Elspeth can only wait for him on Skye, hoping he’ll survive. As the two strike up a correspondence - sharing their favorite books, wildest hopes, and deepest secrets - their exchanges blossom into friendship, and eventually into love. So she is astonished when her first fan letter arrives, from a college student, David Graham, in far-away America. March 1912: 24-year-old Elspeth Dunn, a published poet, has never seen the world beyond her home on Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye. A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and celebrates the power of the written word to stir the heart. Still, this vividly written, cogently argued book makes a compelling-and timely-case for the ability of ordinary people to collectively surmount the direst of challenges. Solnit falters when she generalizes her populist brief into an anarchist critique of everyday society that lapses into fuzzy what-ifs and uplifting volunteer testimonials. Indeed, the main problem in such emergencies, she contends, is the “elite panic” of officials who clamp down with National Guardsmen and stifling regulations. Here she investigates the startlingly egalitarian community responses to a range of natural and manmade. But she is typically lauded for clear-eyed, incisive analysis, not soft-focus uplift. Not that Solnit, an award-winning cultural critic, is a pessimist. Surveying disasters from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, she shows that the typical response to calamity is spontaneous altruism, self-organization and mutual aid, with neighbors and strangers calmly rescuing, feeding and housing each other. THE TITLE OF Rebecca Solnit’s new book sounds uncharacteristically inspirational. ) reproves civil defense planners, media alarmists and Hollywood directors who insist that disasters produce terrified mobs prone to looting, murder and cannibalism unless controlled by armed force and government expertise. Rebecca Solnit is the author of 13 books, including A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disasters and Infinite City: A San. Natural and man-made disasters can be “utopias” that showcase human solidarity and point the way to a freer society, according this stimulating contrarian study. 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Grade Level: 4th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.)Īndrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents. Volunteers needed in May! Click here to sign up. Writer Brian Augustyn and Mignola crafted the Gotham by Gaslight one-shot in 1989. Mignola drew covers for several Batman stories, including " Batman: A Death in the Family" and "Dark Knight, Dark City". With writer Jim Starlin, Mignola produced the Cosmic Odyssey miniseries in 1988. He drew the Phantom Stranger and World of Krypton limited series. In 1987, he began working for DC Comics as well. In 1983 he worked as an inker at Marvel Comics on Daredevil and Power Man and Iron Fist and later became the penciler on titles such as The Incredible Hulk, Alpha Flight, and the Rocket Raccoon limited series. In 1982 he graduated from the California College of the Arts with a BFA in Illustration. His first published front cover was The Comic Reader #196 in November 1981. His first published piece was in The Comic Reader #183, a spot illustration of Red Sonja (pg. He began his career in 1980 by illustrating spots in The Comic Reader. Mignola was born in Berkeley, California. Mike Mignola was born September 16, 1960. He has also created other supernatural and paranormal themed titles for Dark Horse including Baltimore, Joe Golem, and The Amazing Screw-On Head. Mike Mignola ( / m ɪ ɡ ˈ n oʊ l ə/ born September 16, 1960) is an American comic book artist and writer best known for creating Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics, part of a shared universe of titles including B.P.R.D., Abe Sapien, Lobster Johnson, and various spin-offs. Morris chronicles the experiences of Black girls across the country whose complex lives are misunderstood, highly judged-by teachers, administrators, and the justice system-and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. In a work that Lisa Delpit calls “imperative reading,” Monique W. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. On the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school, she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. One weekend, my husband and I drove to Red Cloud, NE to see Willa Cather's childhood home. In 2009, I was teaching at Knox College in Galesburg, IL and working on final revisions for the memoir. In her own words, here is Neela Vaswani's Book Notes music playlist for her memoir, You Have Given Me a Country:įor my playlist, I picked songs that helped me access memories, created an atmosphere of in-betweenness, and generally influenced my writing-from theme to structure.ġ) Woody Guthrie, "This Land is Your Land" Lost verses included. The book follows the paths of Vaswani’s Irish-Catholic mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey towards each other and the biracial child they create." "The memoir blurs borders of genre and identity, exploring what it means to be bicultural in America. Neela Vaswani's memoir You Have Given Me a Country is a powerful, socially relevant book about the personal search for identity as a biracial person.īeautifully written, the book shares Vaswani's personal history as well as her parents' with a keen eye for detail and poetic elegance. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. The first was the coastline itself, fairly straight, covered with hard sand and offering no particular difficulties. He described the terrain encountered by the French in Operation Camargue as follows:įrom the coast looking inland, the zone of operations divided itself into seven distinct natural strips of land. The area was made known to an English-speaking audience in the book Street Without Joy by Bernard B. įrench colonial forces carried out a major attack on the Street Without Joy in Operation Camargue in July–August 1953. The Viet Minh had fortified a string of villages along a line of sand dunes and salt marshes between Route 1 and the South China Sea and used these bases to launch ambushes on convoys passing on Route 1 and on the adjacent Hanoi-Saigon railway line which together formed the principal lines of communication between northern and southern Vietnam. Street Without Joy or La Rue Sans Joie was the name given by troops of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps to the stretch of Route 1 from Huế to Quảng Trị during the First Indochina War. I read one Goodreads review on this where the criticism was that they were in their late 30s and they handled the situation like early 20s and I fully disagree. The spice didn’t hit until the end, which is perfectly fine, and was excellent to be honest. The family dynamic and side characters were fantastic and I wasn’t annoyed when those characters popped up in scenes, which is something that happens to me often. I loved that these were older characters who’d found the footing, independence, and confidence. I adored the hero and his story, along with his character development. I’m not usually much for second chance romance or holiday books but this one really hit the spot. It had me cracking up in some moments and swooning in others. The Plight Before Christmas was better than it had any right to be. and half of the book she was just bitter and depressed. I also feel that she was unfair with her sisters most of the time. I'm in a point of my life were I can't stand characters whose only aspiration in life is to get married. I'm not saying I loved the way it ended, but it took me by surprise! Definitely not the cliché I was expecting. Also! I liked that I thought I knew how his story would end and NOPE! Kiera really surprised me this time :P. I just wish we had more of him in the book. Her relationship with the girls was one of my favorite aspects of the story, it was very motherly.Īkinli was another character I really enjoyed reading, he was just too sweet, caring and funny. I mean, I liked the idea, I think that She was the strongest character of the book, and it's the first time I read something like it. I really liked Her sometimes, but there were other times that She just confused me. Let's start with something I'm not sure if I liked or not, but it sure had me intrigued: The Ocean. Recycling.Īll in all, I liked this book, it was fresh, cute and a fast read, and that's what I needed (because I've been reading heartbreaking, sad books). When someone else remembers some great story about me/us that I’ve forgotten. Not walking up but looking at a beautiful staircase. Spending an hour typing at a coffee shop. That my wedding dress was tea length, not floor. |