6/10/2023 0 Comments Joker scott snyderWhat he wants to do in Gotham is bring Bruce’s worst nightmares to life". Snyder explained his intent on the character in an interview by The Hollywood Reporter: "He's basically Batman's worst nightmare come to life: Batman, if he was infected by the Joker toxin and lost all sense of ethics. The character was depicted as an alternate universe Batman who does not have a code against killing. The Batman Who Laughs was created by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo first appearing in the comic book Dark Days: The Casting. His name is an allusion both to the original Batman’s seriousness and to the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs featuring Conrad Veidt, by whose performance the Joker is inspired. He was created by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. His first appearance was in the crossover storyline Dark Nights: Metal, before receiving his own series and serving as the main antagonist in Batman/Superman in 2019 and DC Comics' Year of the Villain alongside Lex Luthor. He is depicted as a hybrid of both Batman (Bruce Wayne) and Batman's arch enemy Joker, and is a member of the Dark Knights and the overarching antagonist of the Dark Multiverse Saga, alongside cosmic deities Perpetua and Barbatos, from 2017 to 2021, following DC Rebirth. He is the evil counterpart and alternate version of Batman within the Dark Multiverse. The Batman Who Laughs ( Bruce Wayne) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Rice by Michael W. TwittyIt soaks in the flavors that surround it, from savory jus and rich milks to any variety of. Rice, Twitty notes, changes outfits well to suit the party. Twitty’s Rice celebrates a global and Southern staple with recipes rooted in tradition and tweaked to meet the times. As Twitty gratefully sums up, "Rice connects me to every other person, southern and global, who is nourished by rice's traditions and customs. Southern culinary historian and chef Michael W. Exploring rice's culinary history and African diasporic identity, Twitty shows how to make the southern classics as well as international dishes-everything from Savannah Rice Waffles to Ghanaian Crab Stew. As Twitty's fifty-one recipes deliciously demonstrate, rice stars in Creole, Acadian, soul food, Low Country, and Gulf Coast kitchens, as well as in the kitchens of cooks from around the world who are now at home in the South. Commingled or paired with other foods, rice is indispensable to the foodways of the South. In some dishes, it is crunchingly crispy in others, soothingly smooth in still others, somewhere right in between. Filling and delicious, rice comes in numerous botanical varieties and offers a vast range of scents, tastes, and textures depending on how it is cooked. Twitty observes, depending on regional tastes, rice may be enjoyed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner as main dish, side dish, and snack in dishes savory and sweet. Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables-and on tables around the world-rice is without question the most versatile. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Author nancy macleanIn 2013, MacLean participated in SPNC panels and forums held in opposition to the legislative agenda of Republican majority of the North Carolina General Assembly. She co-chaired Scholars for a Progressive North Carolina (SPNC), which has since been renamed Scholars for North Carolina's Future (SNCF). In 2010, MacLean moved to Duke University. MacLean spoke in favor of and participated in the Living Wage Campaign. įrom 1989 to 2010 MacLean taught at Northwestern University, where she chaired the Department of History and was the Peter B. MacLean's doctoral thesis later became her first book, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994). in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied under Linda Gordon. In 1981, MacLean completed a four-year, combined-degree, B.A./M.A program in history at Brown University, graduating magna cum laude. history, with particular attention to the U.S. MacLean's research focuses on race, gender, labor history and social movements in 20th-century U.S. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Read the score elle kennedyIn turn, the newest love interest, Allie, is Hannah’s (Garrett’s girlfriend) roommate. Dean is Garrett and Logan’s roommate, but is by far the biggest partier of the bunch. Like the other Off-Campus books, The Score stars a hockey player who the rest of the gang knows. Her writing is so easy and fun, and her sex scenes are top tier. Elle Kennedy does a phenomenal job at making her readers wish they had given more attention to the hockey players when they were in college. These books are the perfect “get out of your book slump” books, and overall are just a lot of lighthearted fun. I recommend these books constantly in real life, just because they are so easy for a vast and diverse majority to like them. I was so surprised by the effect it had on me. I was so reluctant to pick The Deal up, because I didn’t think I’d like it at all just based on the premise of hockey players in college. These books are such hidden gems and if you’re on the fence about trying them – PLEASE give them a shot. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Umberto eco the infinity of listsone is temped to list on - reach either a certain age or a certain stature, which it is sometimes hard to tell, when they are able to make simple, direct, and yet curiously ambiguous claims and assertions which, had they been made by a lesser figure, would certainly be dismissed out of hand, but coming from the sage achieve a certain matter-of-fact status and attain the aura of profundity. There is a point at which scholars, philosophers, intellectuals (public or otherwise), critics, etc. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries. It also wants to create order - not always, but often. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It’s part of the history of art and literature. In a Der Spiegel interview from November 2009, Eco explains, At least from a certain angle of vision explicated and illustrated in Umberto Eco’s The Infinity of Lists: An Illustrated Essay (2009). It may not look like much, but that grocery list sitting on the kitchen counter is a faint visual echo of the beginnings of civilization. 6/9/2023 0 Comments The marlow murder club bookCould there be a more seductive pitch to the readers of middle England (or to the producers of Sunday evening drama)? What follows threatens to become the Famous Five in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, or a Midsomer murder for a whole gang of Miss Marples. The club of the book’s title meets every week in the jigsaw room at Coopers Chase, a superior gated retirement village in rural Kent the puzzle the members attempt to solve, however, is not the “two thousand piecer of Whitstable harbour” left unfinished on the coffee table, but rather one of several cold murder cases brought to their attention by Penny, a resident in the village and a former police inspector. The Thursday Murder Club might double as a final application for that accolade. All of which data no doubt helps to make Viking Penguin, the publisher of Osman’s first novel, comfortable with its decision to invest a “seven-figure advance” in a two-book deal, safe in the knowledge that the Pointless co-presenter is well on the way to national treasure status. Fans of Osman were, the survey suggested, most likely also to admire Dawn French, Judi Dench and appliances made by Russell Hobbs. I n a recent YouGov survey concerning British TV celebrities, Richard Osman emerged as the ninth most popular telly personality – the words most often used to describe him were “likable, clever, quick-witted and charming”. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Matrix by groff“I thought, oh my God, this is the next book,” said Groff, who raced to the front of the room when Bugyis finished. When Groff and her 2018-19 classmate Katie Bugyis had such an exchange, she put aside “The Vaster Wilds,” a novel based on early American captivity narratives, to dive into the life of an abbess from the Middle Ages.Īs Groff put it in a December 2020 tweet, she was listening to Bugyis’s fellowship talk about medieval liturgy when her brain “exploded into rainbows.” With that as her model, it’s not surprising she found inspiration at the Radcliffe Institute, where potent interactions between fellows from disparate fields are an everyday thing. The fiction writer Lauren Groff likens her artistic process to a kind of nuclear fusion, where collisions of creative energy produce narrative force. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Peony in love by lisa seeSo begins Peony’s unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrow–as Lisa See’s haunting new novel, based on actual historical events, takes readers back to seventeenth-century China, after the Manchus seize power and the Ming dynasty is crushed. Yet through its cracks, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man with hair as black as a cave–and is immediately overcome with emotion. Peony’s mother is against her daughter’s attending the production: “Unmarried girls should not be seen in public.” But Peony’s father assures his wife that proprieties will be maintained, and that the women will watch the opera from behind a screen. Though raised to be obedient, Peony has dreams of her own. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family, trapped like a good-luck cricket in a bamboo-and-lacquer cage. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. In spring, moved to passion in autumn only regret.”įor young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. “I finally understand what the poets have written. He most sobering feature of Yuval Levin’s brilliant analysis of America’s “fractured republic” is what he calls a “revolution in the structure of American religiosity.” Multitudes of Americans, Levin persuasively argues, have ceased to view traditional religion as “an ideal with which to nominally identify” and have come instead “to see it as an option to reject.” It is not, he points out, that the dedicated members of traditional faiths are dwindling on the contrary, religious communities are vibrant, and flourishing. I called it “the book of the year” in a New York Post column, and in a review in these pages in May, David Bahr said The Fractured Republic “merges a deep philosophic understanding of the American experiment and a conceptual analysis of American history into a practical basis from which we can examine contemporary American problems with crystalline clarity.” Given the richness of the book, we invited four right-of-center intellectuals to expound upon, and expand on, Levin’s themes and message. -John Podhoretz It has excited more attention in the weeks leading up to its release than any comparable work in memory. Yuval Levin, the editor of the quarterly National Affairs and a sometime contributor to Commentary, has just published The Fractured Republic, an essay in book form about the political divide in the United States. Manasseh Cutler, who became the spokesperson for the Ohio effort, was a pastor who never lost a passion for learning. The major personalities of the adventure were remarkable. While reading of such endeavors could be very dry, McCullough magically brings the era to life, and we readers are a part of the long ago struggle. In particular, it follows the exploration and the creation of communities along the Ohio River. McCullough’s latest book, “ The Pioneers,” is no exception to that long list of excellent titles. The book traces the settlement of what was the Northwest Territory during the late 18 th century. And McCullough has received some fifty-six honorary degrees for his extensive writing about American history. “The Path between the Seas” and “Mornings on Horseback” were recipients of the National Book Award. “ John Adams” and “ Truman” not only merited bestseller status, but each also earned the Pulitzer Prize. No book written by historian David McCullough has failed to fascinate readers. Reflecting on David McCullough’s “The Pioneers” |