In theory, such ridiculous particulars were merely a level of Byzantine minutiae that haunted the rich and idle most modern folk manage to get by without knowing the details of private-jet etiquette. How specific and stifling? When at a dinner party, a lady eyeing the dessert course would have to hope a man was willing to cut her pear for her, as she was implicitly discouraged from doing it herself. With deeply specific and often counter-intuitive advice, Victorian pundits attempted to establish class markers and prescribe "acceptable" behavior that tended to come down harder on women than on men. Victorian manners occupy a space both sublimely funny and quietly horrific. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Unmentionable Subtitle The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners Author Therese Oneill
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And who can resist the stories she tells? From the Lake of the Dead and the City of Marrow to the artists who remain behind in a ghost city of spice, here are stories of hedgehog warriors and winged skeletons, loyal leopards and sparrow calligraphers. Her name and origins are unknown, but the endless tales inked upon this orphan's eyelids weave a spell over all who listen to her read her secret history. Now she continues to weave her storytelling magic in the next book of Orphan's Tales-an epic of the fantastic and the exotic, the monstrous and mysterious, that will transport you far away from the everyday. Valente enchanted readers with her spellbinding In the Night Garden. And who can resist the stories she tells? From the Lake of the Dead and. She was adopted because Rwandan property law gives a girl's adoptive parents de facto ownership over her family's land. Twenty years later, she discovers that her parents' killer was the man she calls father. WARNER: His play concerns a baby girl who's adopted by neighbors after her parents are murdered. HYPPOLITE NTIGURIRWA: I wanted the new generation to keep in their minds that what happened would never happen again. WARNER: Hyppolite has returned to his alma mater, the University of Rwanda in Butare, to direct the theater club in a play he's written for the post-genocide generation. Here, he's leading young actors in a vocal warm-up. In primary school, he took up theater to find a new family in the close-knit community of the acting troupe. GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE: Hyppolite Ntigurirwa was 7 years old when he watched his father killed in front of him in the genocide of 1994. So this period of remembrance is offering a chance for a generation that endured the trauma to speak to a generation that has only heard about. They have no memory of that searing event. Today, more than half of Rwanda's population is under the age of 20. We've been looking, this week, at how that country has changed since then. Almost a million people were murdered, mostly members of the minority Tutsi population. Twenty years ago, a genocide was carried out in Rwanda. The novel was adapted to film in 1991, starring Rupert Graves, Helena Bonham Carter, Giovanni Guidelli, Judy Davis, and Helen Mirren. Where Angels Fear to Tread is an accomplished, harrowing, and malevolently funny book, in which familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry. Where Angels Fear to Tread is an accomplished, harrowing, and malevolently funny book, in which familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry. Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collision and the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Room with a View and A Passage to India. But that Lilia should have had a baby-and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! -are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. He's got a country behind him that's upset people from the beginning of the world." He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. A second volume in that series has just been published called The Committed. He is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer. And today I have the honor and pleasure to be talking to Viet Thanh Nguyen. Michael Silverblatt: From KCRW and, I’m Michael Silverblatt and this is Bookworm. Speaker 1: Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannan foundation. Listen to the interview at KCRW or read the transcript below. A novel you’re not born knowing how to read, and you might have to reread it, this is exciting contemporary literature. A novel of ideas and politics and history and theory, but also a crime novel. This is duality enacted as a writing method this is a union between theory and fiction. It brings Nguyen’s storytelling further into the philosophy of refugees, feminism, communism, anti-communism and more-the terror of both the American war in Vietnam and the French presence in Vietnam, along with the Vietnamese presence in America andFrance. Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new novel, “The Committed,” the follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning “The Sympathizer,” and the second entry in a planned trilogy. Michael Silverblatt speaks to Viet Thanh Nguyen about his new book The Committed and the literary inspirations behind it for Bookworm. In time, she became a creative vice president at the high-profile McKinney & Silver, in Raleigh. Karon went on to have a highly successful career in the field, winning awards for ad agencies from Charlotte to San Francisco. She advanced in the company after leaving samples of her writing on the desk of her boss, who eventually noticed her talent. Karon married as a teenager and had a daughter, Candace.Īt 18, Karon began working as a receptionist for a Charlotte, N.C. She penned her first novel when she was 10 years old, the same year she won a short-story contest organized by the local high school. Karon knew at a very early age that she wanted to be a writer. Born Janice Meredith Wilson in 1937, Jan Karon was raised on a farm near Lenoir, North Carolina. A horror novel with genuinely scary vampires. 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Once a film franchise has established itself, other similar franchises often follow it, haging on the coattails of its success and trying to cash in by appealing to the same audience. Rating: PG (Mild Language|Action/Violence|Peril|Some Scary Images|Suggestive Material) At a training ground for the children of deities, Percy learns to harness his divine powers and prepare for the adventure of a lifetime: he must prevent a feud among the Olympians from erupting into a devastating war on Earth, and rescue his mother from the clutches of Hades, god of the underworld. Always trouble-prone, the life of teenager Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) gets a lot more complicated when he learns he's the son of the Greek god Poseidon. The rise of populism, the British vote against the EU, and the election of Donald Trump were all Russian goals, but their achievement reveals the vulnerability of Western societies. Russia found allies among nationalists, oligarchs, and radicals everywhere, and its drive to dissolve Western institutions, states, and values found resonance within the West itself. In the 2010s, it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine and cyberwar in Europe and the United States. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Vladimir Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. “A brilliant analysis of our time.”-Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. If I’d had to guess, I’d have said the table was occupied by the alphas of other packs. He was the first one to look away, and I was grateful. I shouldn’t be thinking of that right now-not while my life was on the line-but there was something about him that dragged me right back to that moment. Memories of the kiss we’d shared exploded in my mind. Though his full lips tightened, his gaze turned hot. I could feel the connection to him like it was a physical thing drawing us together. As soon as my gaze met his, it was like an invisible wire tightened between us. His gleaming dark hair brushed the collar of his plaid shirt, and I’d forgotten how magnetic he was. Garreth sat in the middle, his devastatingly handsome face set in a stony expression. A dozen people sat at it, each looking powerful and confident. Others probably turned into other types of animals. |