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A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere WifeNearly twenty years after Seamus …
"The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more …
[G]oodness is not only better and good for you, but it is also more interesting, more complicated, more demanding, less predictable, more adventuresome than its opposite.
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice …
You, all of us, struggle to turn data into information into knowledge and, we hope, into wisdom. In that process we owe everything to others. We owe others our language, our history, our art, our survival, our neighborhood, our relationships with family and colleagues, our ability to defy social conventions as well as support those conventions. All of this we learned from others.
A reasonable man adjusts to his environment. An unreasonable man does not. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man.
The matrix out of which these powerful decisions are born is sometimes called racism, sometimes classicism, sometimes sexism. Each is an accurate term surely, but each is also misleading. The source is a deplorable inability to project, to become the “other,” to imagine her or him.
"Misha Angrist, who has a PhD in genetics and an MFA, brings us the first, inside story of the Personal …
(On anti-Black racism) "transforming organic ignorance into manufactured error" (!!)
She was born Marguerite, but her brother Bailey nicknamed her Maya ("mine"). As little children they were sent to live …
@knizer@bookwyrm.social Interesting story behind her name! Incidentally, "mayā" in Sanskrit means "by me, with me" (instrumental case).
