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![]() ![]() The food is loosely based on American cuisine but made with France’s extraordinary products. It’s of the “très Brooklyn” style that’s so popular in Paris right now. ![]() From the burgers to elegant foie gras, its dishes are modern and delightful. Bestselling and enormously popular Potter author INA GARTEN takes you to the city of light with a lovely travel journal inspired by her new cookbook. If you can’t get in, try the chic Monsieur Bleu, which has views of the Eiffel Tower. ‘People cry, beg, and weep for a table,’ author Patricia Wells says. The meals (and the prices) are beyond outrageous at this bistro. “For special occasions, we go to Chez l’Ami Louis. Back then, way before artisanal was a buzzword, she discovered street-market farm stands and boulangeries, and “how extraordinary simple food can be when it’s made with really good ingredients.” Her new cookbook, Cooking for Jeffrey, honors that philosophy, as well as her longtime travel partner. TV host Ina Garten (aka the Barefoot Contessa) really came to love Paris 45 years ago when she and her husband, Jeffrey, made their way across Europe with a tent and camping stove. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story unfolds through journal-like entries, which is really effective in offering intimate glimpses into Ruth’s state of mind. It informed my writing, but wasn’t the reason I wrote this book. But I’m hesitant to place too much emphasis on it, because though it resembled Howard’s at times, her experience was very different, and our relationship was nothing like Ruth and Howard’s in my book. I’m often asked if I have personal experience with Alzheimer’s and I do-my late grandmother had Alzheimer’s. But I do know about career-related ambivalence, about heartbreak and about anger. My father doesn’t have Alzheimer’s, I’ve never had a fiancé break up with me, and I’ve never spent a year at home being a caretaker. How much of this story is drawn from your own life experiences? Khong, the former executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine and the author of All About Eggs: Everything We Know About the World’s Most Important Food, makes us laugh once again as she shares the secret behind her first novel’s diary style and shakes her fist at memory. ![]() In poignant and often hilarious journal-like entries, Ruth charts the joys and sadness of her days at home and ultimately her journey through grief. Rachel Khong makes her fiction debut with the small-but-mighty Goodbye, Vitamin, the story of 30-year-old Ruth, who moves home to help care for her aging father, Howard, who was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. ![]() ![]() The Iroquois similarly field a variety of leaders, from the haughty Seneca Red Jacket, who mocked the presumptuous whites and encouraged Iroquois resistance (only to negotiate with them later), to Joseph Brant, the legendary Mohawk leader whose Christianity and friendships with whites proved both an asset and a burden. He focuses on white political leaders like George Clinton (New York’s brilliant, devious governor), Philip Schuyler (general, Hamilton in-law and land-grabbing patroon) and Timothy Pickering (Washington’s frosty, arrogant Secretary of State), alongside more obscure figures like Samuel Kirkland, a missionary who spent his life in fruitless attempts to “civilize” the Natives through agrarian development and religious conversion. ![]() ![]() Taylor (American Revolutions, etc.) examines the interplay between the British and American governments and the powerful Iroquois Confederacy, an alliance of six nations which alternately coexisted, fought and negotiated with their white rivals. Impressively rich portrait of settler-native relations in 18th Century New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And it looks like the streaming giant is in a hurry to cash in on its investment. In September, Netflix acquired the rights to all of Dahl’s work for a hefty $502 million. We don’t know much about the film yet, but here’s what we know so far: This is likely the first of many Dahl adaptations on Netflix It’s unclear what the structure of the film is going to be, as the book contains seven short stories with equally vague names, like, "The Boy Who Talked with Animals,” "The Hitchhiker,” and "The Swan,” which could just as easily be Twilight Zone episodes.īut the twee little world of Dahl makes a lot of sense for source material for Anderson, who loves to elevate realities using saturation, bold color palettes, and outfits that are potentially sourced from Zooey Deschanel’s closet. This will be Anderson’s second time adapting a Dahl story, after directing Fantastic Mr. Now, there’s updates of his next next film in the works, which will be an adaptation of Dahl's 1977 collection of short stories The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More for Netflix. ![]() As if he couldn’t get any more twee, Wes Anderson can’t stop mining Roald Dahl stories for his movies.Įven before The French Dispatch hit theaters and Timothée Chalamet’s bath scene was sending fans into tailspins, Anderson’s newest film Asteroid City was announced. ![]() ![]() A captivating and poignant story delving into the complexities of living in a house filled with turmoil, secrets, and mental illness, and the vulnerability it takes to lean on those we love in times of need. I couldn't put it down.” - Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author of the After series “Hoover does an excellent job of revealing the subtle differences between healthy teenage rebellion and clinical depression… This quirky, complex, and frustrating heroine will win hearts and challenge assumptions about family dysfunction and mental illness in a life-affirming story that redefines what's normal.” ― Kirkus (starred review) "Merit is complex and charming as she struggles with depression, and Hoover shines here as she reveals hope glowing within a house of dysfunction." ― Booklist (5-star review) "Hoover has captured the insecurities that make us human in this unforgettable novel. Pay in 4 interest-free installments for orders over 50.00 with. ![]() ![]() “Emotionally wrenching and utterly original, Without Merit ’s characters stayed with me long after I finished.” - Sara Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series “Honest, funny, and heart wrenching, all spun together perfectly. ![]() ![]() Set between 20, Shuko Murase’s adaptation of the late Satoshi “Project” Ito’s debut novel follows Clavis Shepherd, an intelligence officer working at the behest of an international spec-ops unit tasked with pursuing the culprits responsible for the nuclear attack and bringing them to justice. ![]() ![]() This cycle of barbarism, of history continuously circling back on itself to reprise the horrors of a previous generation, is the thematic fulcrum upon which Genocidal Organ pivots. In the film, this locus of past trauma and catharsis becomes the scene of yet another atrocity, as the lives of Sarajevo’s citizens are once again indiscriminately snuffed out, this time in the immolating hellfire of an atomic bomb. ![]() A tour group idles in observance of the “Sarajevo Roses,” a memorial of resin-filled mortar fire craters marked in remembrance of the thousands of civilians who lost their lives during the six-year Siege of Sarajevo-a conflict which, to this day, stands as the longest concentrated assault of its kind in modern history. ![]() Genocidal Organ, the final installment in the “Project Itoh” trilogy, opens on the site of a real-world massacre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() GETTING THE GIRL is a pursuit worth undertaking." - School Library Journal "Clever, smart, and wryly observant, an impressive array of convincingly quirky, original characters." - ALA Booklist, Clever, smart, and wryly observant, an impressive array of convincingly quirky, original characters., As always, Juby endows her endearing characters with quirky, comedic voices and original backgrounds. GETTING THE GIRL is a pursuit worth undertaking., Juby Again Demonstrates Her Ability to Tell a Story That's Richly Colored All the Way to the Edges., "As always, Juby endows her endearing characters with quirky, comedic voices and original backgrounds." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Juby again demonstrates her ability to tell a story that's richly colored all the way to the edges." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) "A fun read with a message." - KLIATT (starred review) "As if appealing to both genders and espousing integrity weren't enough, the story is often funny, with an endearing main character. As if appealing to both genders and espousing integrity weren't enough, the story is often funny, with an endearing main character. Part comedy, part mystery, and with all of Juby's trademark tongue-in-cheek humor, Getting the Girl takes on one of the cruelest aspects of high school: how easy it is for an entire school to turn on someone, and how hard it can be to be the only one willing to fight back. ![]() ![]() ![]() Characters are minimally described and racially ambiguous.Ī fast-paced thriller to keep readers on the edges of their seats. ![]() The characters take readers on a journey that interrogates consent, bullying, and, ultimately, friendship. With pulsing dialogue and believable action, the thriller raises the stakes at every turn. When people go missing and a body is found, this satisfyingly gripping cautionary tale with multiple unreliable narrators in which nobody is what they seem ramps up. Jessica’s heartbroken, but there are worse things to be: Jake is 17, Tegan is 18, the video that is now doing the rounds qualifies as child pornography, and the FBI is involved. Jake goes looking for Jessica, but he ends up in bed with Tegan-and worse, his betrayal is livestreamed for everyone at the party to watch on the TV downstairs, Jessica included. At a drugs- and alcohol-fueled party hosted by Tegan Sheffield, Jessica’s former best friend who is also Jake’s ex-girlfriend, the pair have a fight and go their separate ways. Northern California’s Crystal Cove has a coastline with brutal waves, chilly shark-filled water, and riptides, all setting the scene for a dangerous location where a last summer get-together before school starts can easily escalate into something deadly. Jessica Sanchez and Jake Healy are their small town’s most Instagrammable couple, but they are only hoping for a quiet start to their senior year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Conclusion: Interiority and the Value of Connection.4 The Female Audience: Modeling Idealized Femininity.3 Male Audience and Authorship: Projecting Desire and Longing onto the Female Figure. ![]() 1 Gendered Subjectivity and Representing Interiority.Includes bibliographical references and index.ĭescription based on print version record. The paintings in particular have sometimes been interpreted as simple representations of the daily lives of women, or as straightforward artifacts of heteroerotic desire Blanchard proposes that such works could additionally be interpreted as political allegories, representations of the artist’s or patron’s interiorities, or models of idealized femininity. She discusses examples of visual and literary culture in regard to their authorship and audience, examining the role of interiority in constructions of gender, exploring the rhetorical functions of romantic images, and considering connections between subjectivity and representation. In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard analyzes images of women in painting and poetry of China’s middle imperial period, focusing on works that represent female figures as preoccupied with romance. Women and gender in China studies Volume 10.Chinese poetry - Song dynasty, 960-1279 - History and criticism.Painting, Chinese - Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368 - Themes, motives. ![]() |