Michael Loynd, 2022, Ballantine Books; 9780593357040
Subject: Sports
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: In "The Watermen," Michael Loynd tells Daniels's remarkable story and chronicles its broader cultural effect-the birth of America's competitive swimming tradition and the mainstreaming, as it were, of swimming in American life.Read More
The watermen: the birth of American swimming and one young man's fight to capture Olympic Gold
In "The Watermen," Michael Loynd tells Daniels's remarkable story and chronicles its broader cultural effect-the birth of America's competitive swimming tradition and the mainstreaming, as it were, of swimming in American life.
Everett C. Kelly, 2022, Little, Brown Spark; 9780316497442
Subject: Fiction
Source: The New York Times
Review: So when I picked up "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods," about illegal timber poaching, I expected to be triggered by tales of greedy, chainsaw-wielding loggers denuding majestic forests.Read More
Tree thieves: crime and survival in north America's woods
So when I picked up "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods," about illegal timber poaching, I expected to be triggered by tales of greedy, chainsaw-wielding loggers denuding majestic forests.
Review: Sophie is 12 when her mother is seduced by the charismatic Matty. But then the man Sophie worships as an adoptive father is imprisoned for serial murders. Is he guilty? After two decades, the adult Sophie receives a letter from Matty announcing his imminent death - and informing her that he has things to tell her. This is the intriguing premise of Truly, Darkly, Deeply by Victoria Selman, and the ...Read More
Truly, darkly, deeply
Sophie is 12 when her mother is seduced by the charismatic Matty. But then the man Sophie worships as an adoptive father is imprisoned for serial murders. Is he guilty? After two decades, the adult Sophie receives a letter from Matty announcing his imminent death - and informing her that he has things to tell her. This is the intriguing premise of Truly, Darkly, Deeply by Victoria Selman, and the accumulating tension is screwed tight in the ingeniously constructed narrative. Sophie, too, is a winning heroine and Selman draws us deeply into her plight - particularly her guilt at causing the arrest of the man she so admired.n
James Bridle, 2022, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 9780374601119
Subject: General
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: The artist, writer and technologist James Bridle begins "Ways of Being" with an uncanny discovery in the mountainous northwest corner of Greece: a line of stakes tagged with unfathomable letters and numbers in thick marker pen. Wooden sticks march "across fields and vineyards, through gardens and villages," the author writes, "for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of kilometres, like a system of coordi...Read More
Ways of being: animals, plants, machines: the search for a planetary intelligence
The artist, writer and technologist James Bridle begins "Ways of Being" with an uncanny discovery in the mountainous northwest corner of Greece: a line of stakes tagged with unfathomable letters and numbers in thick marker pen. Wooden sticks march "across fields and vineyards, through gardens and villages," the author writes, "for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of kilometres, like a system of coordinates imposed by a remote, alien intelligence."
Adam Seessel, 2022, Simon & Schuster; 9781982185145
Subject: Economics
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: Though the author considers his approach a form of value investing, he also acknowledges the incompatibility of his new way of thinking with the old orthodoxies. "Either the market is wrong and we're in for another tech wreck, or many of the traditional yardsticks for measuring value are broken," he writes. Mr. Seessel believes, of course, in the latter interpretation; the pessimists, he argues, a...Read More
Where the money is: value investing in the digital age
Though the author considers his approach a form of value investing, he also acknowledges the incompatibility of his new way of thinking with the old orthodoxies. "Either the market is wrong and we're in for another tech wreck, or many of the traditional yardsticks for measuring value are broken," he writes. Mr. Seessel believes, of course, in the latter interpretation; the pessimists, he argues, are wrong to suggest that we're in for another bust.
Review: The letter X is the shiftiest minx in the alphabet: a treasure, a cipher, the person we once loved; a porno, a warning, the gender marker beyond F or M; and, now, the title of a queer, near-future noir by Davey Davis.Read More
X: a novel
The letter X is the shiftiest minx in the alphabet: a treasure, a cipher, the person we once loved; a porno, a warning, the gender marker beyond F or M; and, now, the title of a queer, near-future noir by Davey Davis.
Craig Considine, 2021, C Hurst & Co Publishers; 9781787384712
Subject: Psychology
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: Throughout his book Mr. Considine looks for evidence of the sort of cooperation between faith communities that supports his stated aims. Mr. Considine takes pains to stress that "some scholars dispute the authenticity and credibility of Muhammad's reported encounters with Christians," and admits that much of the extant literature borders on what Karen Armstrong deems ...Read More
People of the book: prophet Muhammad's encounters with Christians
Throughout his book Mr. Considine looks for evidence of the sort of cooperation between faith communities that supports his stated aims. Mr. Considine takes pains to stress that "some scholars dispute the authenticity and credibility of Muhammad's reported encounters with Christians," and admits that much of the extant literature borders on what Karen Armstrong deems
Review: Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was born in 1913 in Oswestry, Shropshire, in the west of England, the first child of Frederic Crampton Pym, a solicitor, and his wife, Irena. Her sister, Hilary, was born three years later; the sisters were very close and set up house together in later life. In 1931 Pym went up to St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she studied English and embarked on a number of infatuatio...Read More
The adventures of Miss Barbara Pym: a times book of the year 2021
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was born in 1913 in Oswestry, Shropshire, in the west of England, the first child of Frederic Crampton Pym, a solicitor, and his wife, Irena. Her sister, Hilary, was born three years later; the sisters were very close and set up house together in later life. In 1931 Pym went up to St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she studied English and embarked on a number of infatuations, affairs and heartbreaks.
Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, 2021, Oxford University Press; 9780197541074
Subject: Social Science
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: When the young women arrived at Oxford, strict quotas were still in place to ensure that the male-to-female undergraduate ratio would not dip below 4-to-1. But the upheavals of the war had at least one unexpectedly positive effect on their education: After their male classmates went off to fight, the women no longer had to compete for professorial attention. ...Read More
The women are up to something: how Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics
When the young women arrived at Oxford, strict quotas were still in place to ensure that the male-to-female undergraduate ratio would not dip below 4-to-1. But the upheavals of the war had at least one unexpectedly positive effect on their education: After their male classmates went off to fight, the women no longer had to compete for professorial attention.
Review: In Wild and Wilful, with a collection of 11 articles, dedicated to 15 iconic Indian species, Neha Sinha sets out to engage with some of these questions. Each chapter not only brings home the unfamiliar from the distant wild but also seeks to familiarise the reader with the wild that exists in their everyday lives. ...Read More
Wild and wilful
In Wild and Wilful, with a collection of 11 articles, dedicated to 15 iconic Indian species, Neha Sinha sets out to engage with some of these questions. Each chapter not only brings home the unfamiliar from the distant wild but also seeks to familiarise the reader with the wild that exists in their everyday lives.
Deesha Philyaw, 2020, West Virginia University Press; 9781949199734
Subject: Fiction
Source: Financial Times
Review: As the title suggests, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, American author Deesha Philyaw's debut collection of short stories, offers a rare glimpse into the black church and the community of women that surrounds it. By turns darkly funny and tragic, the stories provide an intimate - at times voyeuristic - perspective on the desires, romances and fears of a complex cast of black female characters. ...Read More
The secret lives of church ladies
As the title suggests, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, American author Deesha Philyaw's debut collection of short stories, offers a rare glimpse into the black church and the community of women that surrounds it. By turns darkly funny and tragic, the stories provide an intimate - at times voyeuristic - perspective on the desires, romances and fears of a complex cast of black female characters. The collection has also been a resounding success for Philyaw, winning a number of awards, and it is currently being adapted into a television series for HBO Max. The book opens with "Eula", a seemingly innocent interlude about two forty-something best friends who spend every New Year's Eve together. But there is more than just friendship at play here. The two ostensibly straight women have been having an affair for years, meeting up every New Year at a hotel for their annual dalliance. The rest of the time, the eponymous Eula is "committed to praying and waiting for her Boaz, like Ruth in the Bible"; while our narrator Caroletta is mostly at peace with finding love, comfort and affection where she can find it, be it with the best friend she wants more from or a revolving door of married boyfriends. Married boyfriends are a recurring theme throughout the book, appearing in six of the nine stories - which might have felt excessive were it not for the way Philyaw handles infidelity, treating it as just one facet of these characters' complicated lives. "Dear Sister", for example, is an epistolary tale narrated by Nichelle, who is writing to a sister she's only recently discovered following the death of her feckless father. Yet in the quietly devastating "Peach Cobbler", a married boyfriend is essential to the plot. Olivia, the story's protagonist, has been raised by a stern mother who is determined her daughter does not grow up expecting life to be sweet, "when for her, it ain't going to be?.?.?. she get a taste of that sweetness, she's going to want it so bad, she'll grow up and settle for crumbs of it". All of her mother's softness is saved instead for her married pastor boyfriend, who comes by their house every Monday for the peach cobbler she prepares for him. A peach cobbler that Olivia only gets crumbs of until she learns to make it herself. Four stories later, in "Instructions for Married Christian Husbands", we learn that this parenting tactic has backfired. Olivia now owns a bakery of her own, one that serves the best peach cobbler in town, but, just like her mother, she eats the crumbs from another woman's table, with a revolving door of interchangeable married lovers. It's generational trauma transmuted; Olivia may be living off of leftovers but she builds "monuments to my impulses and desires on the backs of men like you", she explains in her guide to her married lovers, differentiating herself from their wives (and her mother) who need "coaxing, compliments, massages, and other romantic gestures". Philyaw's frank, lyrical prose is a thing of beauty, deftly capturing whatever she turns her hand to, be it fractured mother-daughter relationships or burgeoning romances. These short stories offer an arresting view on the inner lives of black women, and the nourishment they find in their spirituality and each other.
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