I'll get you a tool to fight Superman.' And so is kind of stuck with him, in that way. He has basically made a deal with Batman. "Our theory is that the one who knows where the Kryptonite, what shards of Kryptonite exist," the director said, according to CBR. Snyder recently addressed the topic during a panel at SnyderCon 2023, saying that the team-up has to deal with finding Kryptonite shards to kill Superman. Seeing the Dark Knight team up with his most famed enemy was a surprising sight for fans, leaving many curious as to what this apocalyptic future held in store. To try to defeat the Man of Steel, Batman has teamed up with Cyborg, the Flash, Mera, Deathstroke, and, of course, the Joker. The epilogue, better known as the Knightmare sequence, shows a post-apocalyptic future where Darkseid rules Earth and Superman has gone mad following the death of Lois Lane. Zack Snyder's Justice League, a four-hour revised cut of the 2017 superhero film Justice League, concluded with an epilogue featuring Ben Affleck's Batman and Jared Leto's Joker. Zack Snyder has finally weighed in on the much-discussed Knightmare scene from his 2021 director's cut version of Justice League.
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Valerie Hansen, an award-winning historian, argues that the year 1000 was the world’s first point of major cultural exchange and exploration. But how, then, to explain the presence of blond-haired people in Maya temple murals at Chichén Itzá, Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Maya empire? People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn’t yet reached North America, and that the farthest feat of sea travel was the Vikings’ invasion of Britain. *A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*įrom celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly comprehensive account casts world history in a brilliant new light” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade missions first connected all of the world’s societies at the end of the first millennium. ⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May. Yoko Ono, Lennon’s wife, eventually sold the property in 1984.īeatlebone consists of Lennon’s conversations and adventures with his driver, Cornelius O’Grady, as the pair avoids pitfalls with the weather and the media to deliver Lennon to Dorninish. Legendary Beatles musician John Lennon actually purchased this uninhabited property, known as “Beatle Island” or “Hippie Island,” and owned it until his death in 1980. Kevin Barry’s second novel, Beatlebone, follows a fictional John Lennon as he travels in 1978 to Dorninish, his small private island located off the west coast of Ireland. The reading, which is free and open to the public, concludes the 2016-2017 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Author Kevin Barry will read from his novel Beatlebone on Friday, April 28 at 4:30 p.m. Like New Yorkers, Russians are so deeply embedded in their milieu that the existence of other places becomes thin, hypothetical, dubious. In addition to being an odd fellow, Gogol was also thoroughly Russian. Not beauty in the conventional sense - Gogol's world is utterly grotesque but beautiful because so perfectly imagined. Gogol was a lucky sexual hysteric: Through the alchemy of art he could transform terror into beauty. Only Gogol could have written the short story "The Nose," a mixture of Freud and Alice in Wonderland, in which a man loses his nose, advertises for it in the paper, and then is astonished to see it dressed in a general's uniform, entering a splendid carriage. And this also meant that - apart from the imitativeness that is part of writer's early development - Gogol was a natural, unique without effort. It was what went on inside his mind that made Gogol so infinitely peculiar. It wasn't Gogol's life that made him so odd - except for some flittery travel, he wasn't much of a doer and is even said to have perished still a virgin. Even his last name sounds odd and comical to Russians, meaning as it does "male duck." Nikolai Maleduck. Gogol (1809-1852) was a very odd bird indeed. And America's literature never had anything quite like Nikolai Gogol. But America's history never had an Ivan the Terrible, a Stalin, or even a Rasputin. DURING the Cold War, and after, some people were wont to remark on the essential similarity of Russians and Americans. Not a big deal but it's interesting how that sticks in your mind - especially with as many books as Abby has narrated! Everything works together perfectly to make this an audiobook well worth owning! If I had to recommend only one way to experience the story, it would be with this audiobook version. This was much more enjoyable for me than when I read the ebook and it was the perfect listen to wrap up on Christmas Day! The only thing SLIGHTLY distracting is that Austen's voice was much like Dawn's voice in Conflict of Interest and since Dawn makes appearances in this one, Abby had to change Dawn's to differentiate them. Falling stars are supposed to be a lucky sign, but not for Austen. But I was excited Abby Craden was hired to narrate the re-vamped audiobook version and knew I wanted to give it a go. Under a Falling Star Audible Audiobook Unabridged Jae (Author), Abby Craden (Narrator), & 1 more 449 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial A new job and a hot but grouchy boss for Christmas. This one's a prime example of how the right narrator can elevate the experience of a book! I am a huge fan of Jae's, but this one wasn't high up on the list of my favorites of hers when I initially read it. The Global Partnership fund will provide financial support to programmes that accelerate action. Every child has the right to grow up free from violence – and we all need to work together to realise that vision,” said Susan Bissell, Director of the Global Partnership. “Violence against children is not inevitable - if we challenge the status quo that harms the lives and futures of so many children. One in four children suffers physical abuse, and nearly one in five girls is sexually abused at least once in their lives. Homicide is among the top five causes of death for adolescents. PAHO said that over the past year up to one billion children have experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence, according to a recent study published in Pediatrics. The Global Partnership fund, supported by the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and partners, will form part of the “INSPIRE” package that the stakeholders hope will dramatically reduce instances of violence against children. BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Caribbean countries are expected to benefit from a new global fund aimed at ending violence against children through seven interlinked strategies. It’s pretty epic in scope, but is updated regularly, and the writing and art are both top-notch.Ĥ) Hero by Hwei. Another incredibly beautiful webcomic, though this one is much more introspective, and tells the story of a boy with no name who has lived for as long as he can remember in a small house on the beach, and his dearest wish is to see a city. It follows the story of Pokémon White Version.ģ) Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell. The story of a girl called Annie, who attends a bizarre magical boarding school (& that may sound Harry Potter-ish, but it’s actually really, really not). I’ll admit that I actually follow quite a few Nuzlocke comics (they’re just so emotional!), but this is by far the best one I’ve come across, and the art is phenomenal. It’s also complete, which is a bonus!Ģ) Myths of Unova by ky-nim. A Nuzlocke comic (which means it’s a novelisation of a Pokémon playthrough, but where pokémon die instead of fainting, and you can only catch the first pokémon you find in each area). There are three different story arcs, each following a different couple (Josh & Metis, Charles & Jay, and Erik & Samuel), and while I personally like Josh & Metis’ arc the best, they’re all really well done. It’s been a while since my last Thematic Recs post, and since I’ve been reading a lot of comics and graphic novels lately, I thought I’d recommend a few of my favourite webcomics!ġ) Honeydew Syndrome by autobrig. A cute, geeky high school love story. Wildly funny but deadly serious, Beatty’s caper is populated by outrageous caricatures, and its damning social critique carries the day. Beatty gleefully catalogues offensive racial stereotypes but also reaches further, questioning what exactly constitutes black identity in America. While his logic may be skewed, there is a perverse method in his madness he is aided by Hominy, a former child star from The Little Rascals, who insists that Me take him as his slave. When Dickens is erased from the map by gentrification, Me hatches a modest proposal to bring it back by segregating the local school. At the novel’s opening, its narrator, a black farmer whose last name is Me, has been hauled before the Supreme Court for keeping a slave and reinstituting racial segregation in Dickens, an inner-city neighborhood in Los Angeles inexplicably zoned for agrarian use. In 1990, Paul Beatty was crowned the first ever Grand Poetry Slam. He is a 1980 graduate of El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California. Beatty received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA in psychology from Boston University. A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. Paul Beatty (born 1962 in Los Angeles) is a contemporary African-American author. Beatty’s satirical latest (after Slumberland) is a droll, biting look at racism in modern America. The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. 1 July 1937 10 April 2014), also known as Doris Pilkington, was an Australian author. In May 2008 she was awarded the $50,000 Red Ochre Award. Doris Pilkington Garimara AM (born Nugi Garimara c. She was appointed co-patron of Australia’s State and Federal Sorry Day committee’s Journey of Healing in 2002. In 1990 Pilkington’s book Caprice: A Stockman’s Daughter the first of the trilogy, won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, Unpublished Indigenous Writer – The David Unaipon Award. In the four books, Caprice, a Stockman’s Daughter, Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence, Home to Mother, and Under the Wintamarra Tree, Pilkington documented three generations of women in her family. Home to Mother is her children’s edition of Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence. Her follow-up book, Under the Wintamarra Tree, details her own escape from Moore River. The book was made into an internationally successful film in 2002, directed by Phillip Noyce. Doris Pilkington Garimara AM (born Nugi Garimara), also known as Doris Pilkington, she was best known for her 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, a story of three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington’s mother, Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled for nine weeks to return to their family. There’s a lot of fuss, as you know, about alleged Russian meddling in the elections. There is no longer fear of excessive democracy. We’ve discussed some of the means: virtual purchase of elections, radical escalation of lobbying, undermining of voting rights, all facilitated further by the most reactionary Supreme Court in living memory. “One consequence of all of this has been a severe erosion of democracy, an immediate consequence of sharp concentration of wealth and business power. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind”Ĭonsequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance “In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons … who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. He is referring to himself and other people who are behind the scenes manipulating public opinion, which is another phrase for common sense. “We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of” (1928). Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country.” Some people might now call that the deep state. “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. |