Not only is it helping itself to extra cash from the West it is also gifting revenues to Russia, which has switched much of its energy output to China and India. Instead, by supporting higher oil prices, Saudi Arabia has aligned itself with Vladimir Putin. He thought he had secured commitments to keep the oil flowing amid concerns about global recession. It is also a slap in the face for President Biden, who travelled to Riyadh last year to meet the country's de-facto leader Mohammed bin Salman. What is so galling is that the Saudi-led move to cut production comes when petrol and gas prices have been tumbling. But food prices remain stubbornly high and the latest energy shock will make it harder to meet the target. Rishi Sunak has pledged to halve inflation by the year's end. Just as we were hoping that the worst of the energy price surge caused by Russia's war on Ukraine was coming to an end, a new axis of evil rears its head
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It is a place and a society where, as a vivacious “aunty” remarks, “he problem is that there are many qualified people who are not where they are supposed to be because they won’t lick anybody’s ass, or they don’t know which ass to lick or they don’t even know how to lick an ass.” Ifemelu’s high school sweetheart, Obinze, is too proud for any of that smart and scholarly, he has been denied a visa to enter post-9/11 America (says his mother, “he Americans are now averse to foreign young men”), and now he is living illegally in London, delivering refrigerators and looking for a way to find his beloved. Ifemelu, beautiful and naturally aristocratic, has the good fortune to escape Nigeria during a time of military dictatorship. A sensitive portrayal of distant love, broken affinities and culture clash by Nigerian novelist Adichie ( Purple Hibiscus, 2003, etc.).Ībsence makes the heart grow fonder, it’s said-but as often it makes the heart grow forgetful. His methodology was basically going to a town and ranking the average attractiveness of the women, like a park bench pervert under the guise of science. A male baby will be acted upon by hormones that transform it Francis Galton, now remembered as the father of eugenics, made a “beauty map” of the British Isles. There are many intriguing and shocking facts along the way: all fetuses in the womb start as female. Along the way she debunks many myths, explores some of the wrongheaded ideas that prevailed in the past, and the new studies and debates that are arranging around gender differences in humans and animals. In Inferior, Angela Saini explores the science, past and present, that has attempted to explain and often dismiss women. Another note-heavy review with possible spoilers, if you consider nonfiction something that can be spoiled.įinally getting back into the swing of nonfiction after a very fiction-heavy 2020 thus far, I thought I’d turn to some gender science. The war tour was an electric cultural moment, one that still echoes today, – but a moment that only few knew about, until now. By Andy Greene NovemMELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 20: Leonard Cohen performs live for fans at Rod Laver Arena on Novemin Melbourne, Australia. Cohen’s audience knew his songs might be the last thing they heard, and those who survived never forgot the experience. Moving around the front with a guitar and a pick-up team of local musicians, Cohen dived headlong into a global crisis and met hundreds of fighting men and women at the worst moment of their lives. etina: Kanadsk hudebnk Leonard Cohen bhem koncertu v. Security staff amid the crowds at Leonard Cohen’s 1972 Tel Aviv concert (Screenshot from the documentary ‘Bird on a Wire’) And then the last concert is in Jerusalem. In October 1973 the poet and singer Leonard Cohen – 39 years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end – traveled to the Sinai desert and inserted himself into the chaos and blood of the Yom Kippur War. Franais : Leonard Cohen, durant le concert donn Genve dans le cadre de sa tourne de 2008. Variety reports that the series will be based on Matti Friedman's 2022 book Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai, that featured sections of an unpublished Cohen manuscript where he details he decision to stage the concert. Leonard Cohen's famous 1973 trip to Sinai to perform for Israeli soldiers near the frontlines of the Yom Kippur War is being turned into a television limited drama. His central character, Viktor Shtrum, eventually succumbs, but each delay and act of resistance is a moral victory. He knew all about this from experience too. Grossman himself was on the front line as a war correspondent at Stalingrad - hence his gripping battle scenes, though these are more than matched by the drama of the individual conscience struggling against massive pressure to submit to the State. At the height of the battle Russian soldiers and citizens alike are at last able to speak out as they choose, and without reprisal - an unexpected and short-lived moment of freedom. Nazism and Communism are appallingly similar, 'two poles of one magnet', as a German camp commander tells a shocked old Bolshevik prisoner. Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense struggle between opposing armies and ideologies. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.īased on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk, a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate, became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. How did Einstein's mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir I loved seeing all the prom events and Liz’s initial, and eventual, approaches to what it means to be a (Prom) Queen. I also liked Leah’s take on the classic “running for prom queen” theme (trope?). It was quite a clever & multi-faceted coming of age story. I really enjoyed the premise of this book.(Shout out to Alaska Jackson on the phenomenal job!) Especially since I checked out the audiobook from my library and the narration was quite good. I was hooked by the very first chapter and couldn’t wait to see to see the rest of Liz’s story unfold. Suddenly Liz is careening down the path to Prom Queen and the scholarship it provides…but only if she can figure out how to shine her absolute brightest. Then the scholarship she was depending on falls through, and she must figure out another way to attend the uber-elite music college that holds the key to all her future plans. You Should See Me in a Crown follows Liz Lightly through her senior year of high school as she prepares to escape her very-rich, very-white Indiana town. You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson Although she hates to acknowledge the possibility of shady dealings among her peers, Gloria is forced to admit that Eric's murder may be related to fraud in the scientific community. But Gloria finds challenges she doesn't expect: the murder of Eric Bensen, a physicist she knew in California the re-appearance of Peter Mastrone, an old boyfriend and an unprecedented feeling of attraction to Matt Gennaro, the homicide detective who's in charge of the Bensen murder investigation. When she signs on with the local police as a consultant in science-related crimes, she thinks the most exciting thing about it will be testifying as an expert witness. Back in the city she left thirty years ago, Gloria moves into an apartment above her friends' funeral home and drives their hand-me-down Cadillacs. On her fifty-fifth birthday physicist Gloria Lamerino makes a U-turn: she cleans out her Berkeley, California condo and her physics lab, signs for a retirement bonus, and flies east to her hometown of Revere, just outside Boston. The First Mystery in THE PERIODIC TABLE MURDER SERIES. Czanek waits impatiently for a long time. Treasure and its hiding place, while Czanek waits outside in the getawayĬar. Ricci and Silva go inside to "interview" the Old Man about the They act immediately on their avariceĪccording to their natures, and go to the Old Man's house to commit Terrible Old Man, but are immediately interested when they learn about They take little heed of the locals' cautionary whispers about the Lies outside the charmed circle of New England life and traditions." Manuel Silva), who are "of that new and heterogeneous alien stock which The story focuses on three robbers (Angelo Ricci, Joe Czanek and Stones in the front yard and observed the Old Man carrying onĬonversations with mysterious bottles on his table, which make "certainĭefinite vibrations as if in answer." Most locals take care to avoid the Those who had visited the property had seen bizarre collections of In his youth and had accumulated great riches throughout his life. Even among the locals, few know the details of the Old Man's life, but it is believed that he captained East Indian clipper ships That few know his real name." He lives alone in an ancient house on Man "so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn The Terrible Old Man is a strange elderly Fragmented worldbuilding leads to labored plotting, yet Szabo introduces an intriguing cast of characters-particularly Arthur, a vampirish family guest and paramour to many-alongside meaningful explorations of identity and belonging. Mere’s incredible powers threaten them all, and Eleanor must decide whether to defend the family who abandoned her or become the creature her Grandmere insists she is inside. When her grandmother dies, first instructing Eleanor to care for and protect the family, the girl uncovers long-buried secrets and calls on her maternal French grandmother for help. Eleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. Exquisitely terrifying, beautiful, and strange, this fierce gothic fantasy will sink it's teeth into you and never let go. With a mother who is half woman, half marine life several werewolf-shapeshifting relatives and Grandmother Persephone, who can see the future, Eleanor is not sure how she fits in or why she was sent away for eight years. Download a FREE sneak peek of What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo. Returning home to Maine after a violent incident at her boarding school, Eleanor Zarrin reunites with a family unlike any other. Comparable to The Hazel Wood, Szabo’s uneven debut features a pitch-black fairy tale atmosphere and rich, mid-century gothic descriptions. |