![]() Enhanced by fifty-nine splendidly whimsical drawings by Edward Koren, A Dog’s Life gives us all the delights we expect from any book by Peter Mayle-pedigree prose, biting wit, and a keen nose for the fragrance of civilization-together with the insouciant wisdom of which only a dog (and probably only Peter Mayle’s dog) is capable. We share in his amorous dalliances, his run-ins with French plumbers and cats, and in the tidbits (both conversational and edible) of his owners’ dinner parties. ![]() A Dogs Life, 1995 novel by Peter Mayle with Ed Koren A Dogs Life. Now he gives this canny canine a voice in an irresistible “memoir” that proves that the best vantage point for observing life may well be on all fours.Īs Boy recounts his progress from an overcrowded maternal bosom to unchallenged mastery of the Mayle household, he tells us why dogs are drawn to humans (“our most convenient support system”) and chickens (“that happy combination of sport and nourishment”). Dogs Life is a 2003 video game for the Sony PlayStation 2. ![]() ![]() Once upon a time in Provence, Peter Mayle adopted a dog of uncertain origins and dubious hunting skills and gave him a name-Boy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself.ĭaniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight ![]() ![]() ![]() He felt many readers latched on to Harry's rebellion and despair, but overlooked his journey back from that point, which starts when he meets the beautiful young Hermine. However, in the 1960s, Hermann Hesse said that Steppenwolf was "more often and more violently misunderstood" than any of his other books. This might explain Harry's painfully accurate descriptions of depression, which have perhaps been matched since only by William Styron's Darkness Visible. After leaving his wife in the mid-1920s, Hesse lived an isolated life in Basel, reaching suicidal depths of despair. ![]() In writing Steppenwolf, Hesse drew on his own spiritual crisis. Harry longs to kill himself, yet clings stubbornly to his "evil days of inward emptiness and despair". Two souls war inside him: "the beast", yearning for savagery and isolation, and "the man" seeking culture, society and love. Having lost his job, family and home, he lives in wolfish isolation, brooding by day and haunting taverns by night. Once a public intellectual, he has retreated in disgust from modern European culture. The novel's protagonist, 47-year-old Harry Haller, is living an extremely death-like existence. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas interviewing Leah Cypess.Įpisode 44B (February 1): Editors’ Introduction, “Lily, the Immortal” by Kylie Lee Baker, as read by Matt Peters, “Weaver Girl Dream” by Lisabelle Tay, as read by Erika Ensign, and Lynne M. Yoachim and Galen Dara’s Shuffling The Cards on the cover.Įpisode 44A (January 4): Editors’ Introduction, “The Night Dance” by Leah Cypess, as read by Erika Ensign, “The House Snakes” by Sonya Taaffe, as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Yoachim nonfiction by Alex Jennings, Lincoln Michel, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, and Louis Evans poetry by Mehnaz Sahibzada, Sonya Taaffe, Dominik Parisien, and Lisabelle Tay interviews with Christopher Caldwell and Sarah Monette by Caroline M. The free online content will be released in two stages-half on January 4 and half on February 1.įeaturing all-new short fiction by Leah Cypess, Christopher Caldwell, Natalia Theodoridou, Sarah Monette, Kylie Lee Baker, Wen-yi Lee, and Tina Connolly reprint fiction by Caroline M. ![]() Thomas was the Editor-in-Chief of Apex Magazine (2011-2013). ![]() Ten-time Hugo, British Fantasy, and 2-time Parsec Award-winner Lynne M. Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Four! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on January 4, 2022. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Lynne and Michael are the Publishers/Editors-in-Chief of Uncanny Magazine. ![]() ![]() Their entry into the United States and their subsequent applications for citizenship are documented in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration. When they fled the Nazi regime in Austria, the von Trapps traveled to America. Part of the story of the real von Trapp family can be found in the records of the National Archives. In thinking about the fictionalized movie version of Maria von Trapp as compared to this very real Maria von Trapp, I came to realize that the story of the von Trapp family was probably something closer to human, and therefore much more interesting, than the movie led me to believe. In the early 1970s I saw Maria von Trapp herself on Dinah Shore's television show, and boy, was she not like the Julie Andrews version of Maria! She didn't look like Julie, and she came across as a true force of nature. "It's not historically accurate!" I'd protest, a small archivist in the making. I liked the singing, and Maria was so pretty and kind! As I grew older, more aware of world history, and saturated by viewing the movie at least once yearly, I was struck and annoyed by the somewhat sanitized story of the von Trapp family it told, as well as the bad 1960s hairdos and costumes. I first saw the movie The Sound of Music as a young child, probably in the late 1960s. (Records of District Courts of the United States, RG 21) ![]() ![]() Maria von Trapp, photograph from her Declaration of Intention, dated January 21, 1944. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Cora and Caesar first see the railroad, they're stunned. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to." But after being viciously attacked by a sadistic farmer, she agrees to light out with Caesar under the cover of darkness, destined for a station on the Underground Railroad. When Cora is approached by another slave, Caesar, about escaping from the plantation, she initially demurs: "White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. She remembers every horrible incident, even - especially - the ones she'd rather forget: "There was an order of misery, misery tucked inside miseries, and you were meant to keep track." ![]() In her time on the Randall farm in Georgia, she's been worked to the point of sickness, beaten, raped, forced to watch her fellow slaves tortured to death. The protagonist of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad is a slave on the plantation where her grandmother, Ajarry, died while picking cotton, and her mother, Mabel, escaped from years ago. How?Įditor's note: This review contains language some may find offensiveĬora is 16, maybe 17 she's not quite sure. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Underground Railroad Author Colson Whitehead ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout her journey Susie forges lifelong connections with her African partners who teach her about local culture and traditions. Ultimately, she focuses on her last ten years transforming a small two-room orphanage in rural Tanzania into an NGO that boasts a home, an organic farm, and a primary school for 350 children. In her engaging memoir, we come to discover her fierce spirit as she seeks out a life of purpose, never shying away from adventures that often carry unseen dangers.Īfter grieving the sudden death of her first husband, Susie begins to explore Africa, quickly falling in love with the continent, where she starts by running AIDS prevention programs for the Clinton Foundation. The daughter of a Green Beret, Susie has lived a transient life ever since she was a young girl. ![]() From walking with lions in the bush to dodging bombs in Tanzania’s largest city, psychologist Susanne Rheault recounts with candor and humility the hard lessons learned during a life working to help impoverished communities in Africa. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bergson argues by means of striking metaphor and analogy. It is totally distinct from the deterministic hypotheses that are either mechanistic or teleological. This theory of evolution makes possible the free emergence of individual intelligence. Bergson suggests that the experience of time as "duration" can best be understood through intuition. Bergson's term "duration", for example, refers to an individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to the mathematical, objectively measurable clock time. The book also developed concepts of time which influenced writers like Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann. The work proposes a version of orthogenesis in place of Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by the “élan vital”, a vital impetus that may also be understood as a natural creative impulse. Creative Evolution is a 1907 book by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. ![]() |