Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When and Drive By revealing America's epidemic of loneliness-and then offering an array of remedies for the condition-Murthy has done a great service, and made Together the most important book you'll read this year."-Daniel H. " Together made me rethink much of what I believe about physical health, public policy, and the human condition. Together is fascinating, moving, and essential reading."-Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal And as his gripping stories of the science and suffering make clear, we can do something about it. It is as harmful to health as smoking and far more common. "We have a massive, deadly epidemic hidden in plain sight: loneliness. The New York Times Bestseller from Surgeon General, Vivek H.
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"This story is so magical and transportive that I fully expected the book would know the moment I'd finished - within hours, no less - and promptly unravel into a pile of jewels and silks in my hands. Prepare to be destroyed-this one will wrench at your heart and make it pound, and in the end it will leave you entirely speechless." - Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series Rich with clever prose, delicious twists, and breathtaking world building. " This Woven Kingdom is an exquisite fantasy. "In a tale as exquisitely crafted as one of Alizeh's own garments, Mafi weaves a spell of destiny and danger, forbidden love and courtly intrigue, magic and revolution." - Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Hours Captivating readers from the very first chapter.A magnetic series opener that will delight fans of Mafi's previous series." - Booklist " illustrious tale of magic, court intrigue, and romance. "Mafi complements rich worldbuilding with lushly descriptive, sensorial prose that inspires the novel's mythological backdrop, against which plays out an emotional plot, and a tortured romance, layered with court intrigue." - Publishers Weekly Gut-wrenchingly beautiful." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Magic, political intrigue, and forbidden love collide in Mafi's tale inspired by Islamic tradition and the Persian epic poem the Shahnameh.Richly textured, descriptive prose coupled with agonizing romance combine in this fantastical epic. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. John Berendt’s sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Although the murder gave the story a focus, you read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil for its eccentric look at humanity and not for its murder mystery. John Berendt’s bestseller spent 216 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, probably for its almost unbelievably quirky characters: a drag queen, a voodoo priestess, a charming swindler, and a murderous(?) antique dealer. With a colorful cast of characters, you’ll hardly believe this narrative nonfiction story isn’t a novel. In 1981, a death at the grandest mansion in Savannah provokes the question: Was it murder or self-defense? The shooting sends a tidal wave through Savannah whose effects are still visible a decade later. And with Bunny Mellon, Gordon has another tricky subject, a far more vital and relatable figure than Brooke Astor but still very noticeably a space alien visiting from some kind of parallel dimension.īunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend, beautifully produced by Grand Central Publishing, is as thorough, sympathetic, and engaging a biography of this particular space alien as she's ever likely to get. Astor Regrets, actually giving her more flesh-and-blood believability than she was usually able to simulate in real life. Journalist Meryl Gordon did a wonderful job of teasing out Brooke Astor's admittedly elusive humanity in Mrs. In life, the two women had quite a bit in common: each was intelligent, each could be generous to friends and tyrannical to staff, each married into staggering wealth (Astor on her third marriage, Mellon on her second), each craved the limelight, each tried stubbornly throughout the decades to be happy in the day-to-day, both adored dogs (Astor dachshunds, Mellon beagles), both had easy access to the top shelves of American political power, and both were glad-handed philanthropists.Īnd even in death, they share at least one crucial thing in common: they're extremely lucky in their biographer. Seven years later, another headline-making, obscenely wealthy American socialite, Bunny Mellon, died at the age of 103. Astor Regrets, was a ripe old 105 when she died in 2007. Bunny Mellon:The Life of an American Style Legendīrooke Astor, the subject of Meryl Gordon's hugely engaging 2008 book Mrs. This book has 1,755 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1864. Part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World set. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized, but also about the times in which they lived. The surviving Parallel Lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, written in the late 1st century. Plutarch’s Lives PlutarchĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up-she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and All Your Perfects, a “brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn’t let go, long after you’ve finished it” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) about a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can’t stop thinking about her first love. Like the water and hot glass that form her art, Maggie and Rogan are destined to be together, even though it’s going to take him some time and finesse to convince her. He sees in her art something he must possess, and he soon comes to see that in her as well. In walks Rogan Sweeney, wealthy and handsome gallery owner. After all, while she loves her sweet sister Brianna, she had seen no love between her parents, and her mother despises her very being. After the death of her beloved father, she is determined to live her life alone. But the place, well, Nora’s Irish setting, both in Dublin and County Clare, offered me a wonderful fantasy world, and that’s due to her phenomenal skill as the creator of characters and storylines.īorn In Fire is the story of Margaret Mary Concannon, a brilliant and tormented artist whose medium is glass. Well, I was wrong, at least in terms of the time. I have often said that I can only enter the fantasy world romance offers when the time and place is long ago and far away. As a reader who most often prefers historical romance, I was skeptical when my bookseller urged me to read Born In Fire, the first of a trilogy set in modern Ireland. “As each side increasingly demonizes the other, compromise becomes more difficult … So it’s not hard to imagine why students arriving on campus today might be more desirous of protection and more hostile toward ideological opponents than in generations past.” “It is a very serious problem for any democracy,” he and his co-author Jonathan Haidt wrote in a cover story for The Atlanticthat year. Greg Lukianoff was preoccupied with political polarization-not just the divisiveness he observed, but the fallout-and specifically the effects of tribalism on college campuses. Don Gorton, Boston Activist and G&LR Mainstay.Power Games Inhabit Guibert’s Last Novel.George Cecil Ives: Out Poet, Lover of Bosie.Inside Ukraine: An lgbtq Leader Speaks Out.For the mind, the very attempt at transcendence makes its own prison: exile. Even when the mind revolts from the body’s abuses, it does not escape them. Juridical and social homophobia, physical arrests and confinements, find their parallel in psychological structures. This much-abused body has a mind which is neither a single nor a separate entity but shares its fears with others who are equally persecuted for their sexuality. In the relationship between pleasure and power for Foucault, the homosexual body is a bruised and weary fetish, due to the wringer it has been put through. While reading Foucault’s work, the word incarceration is evocative, palpable, you can smell it: the fleshy confinement, the ripeness. Michel Foucault, in Discipline and Punish and A History of Sexuality, examines regimes of incarceration, played out on specific, arrested bodies but resonant with generalized experience. THE BODIES AND MINDS of homosexual men have historically been subject to both real and psychological prisons. And if women realied how fragile male control is, everything might change. It is not possible to own a resource that is located inside someone else's body, which sex and reproduction always are. It is not possible to control what (or who) women want. Patriarchy is inherently unsustainable: It is not possible to control another human being at every moment of every day. For patriarchy to work, men have to control literally every facet of sex and family life– who has sex, with whom, and when and whether they get pregnant, who owns the child, and who care for it– and given the unruly nature of sex and birth, this control is perpetually slipping out of their grasp. “Men fear women, even as they work to make women fear men, because, on the most basic level, male dominance is an illusion. |