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Inequality linking of concentrated wealth, inherited hierarchy to the ideology of tech titans

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Kim Phillips-Fein, historian teaching 20th century American history at the Gallatin School of individualized Study at New York University, in Country of Lords, chronicles a “Shadow Tradition” who fought against America’s founding ideals, offers a critical re-examination of American history by focusing on inequality.  She challenges the belief that America has always moved greater equality, a persistent “Shadow tradition of anti-egalitarian thought published amid sharp anxiety over extreme wealth concentration. 250 years after the Declaration of Independence, the book argues that doubts about equality run from John Adams through social Darwinists, slavery theorists and scientific racist to today’s tech elite Elon Musk’s … Continue reading Inequality linking of concentrated wealth, inherited hierarchy to the ideology of tech titans

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Don’t start losing yourself in the embroidery of your memories in the world of deficits

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Joanna Elmy’s debut novel, Born to Guilt is a very powerful and heartrending novel about the intense bond between mother and child and the consequence of freedom. “I am calm only when alone. That’s what my mother used to say. As a child I hated her for this because it meant I should not have existed. Now I’m frightened by how much I understand her.”  Twenty-year-old Yana spends her days in a series of dead-end service jobs and her nights meeting other immigrants after moving from post-communist Bulgaria to the US failing to ease her hardship.  Newly arrived in America she breathes easier … Continue reading Don’t start losing yourself in the embroidery of your memories in the world of deficits

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Decline of public etiquette

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David Sedaris investigates in The Land and Its People, what it means to be a traveller, a brother, a lifelong friend. Trying on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh’s hip-replacement surgery. It is a familiar Sedaris set-up: domestic discomfort turned into comic material, with a swipe of competitiveness. “I Know all about kidney stones and gum surgery. I know about broken ribs and urinary tract infections. When it came to hip pain, though, he had me,” he writes. Sedaris approaches with his usual cool composure and flashes of humour. In one essay, he lists the friends he has … Continue reading Decline of public etiquette

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How justice plays out

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UK’s leading forensic anthropologist and pro-vice chancellor of Engagement at Lancaster University, president of St John’s College, Oxford, Professor Dame Sue Black solves the mysteries of harrowing and shocking criminal cases by assessing its triumphs, failures and future. For over forty years, Black has analysed criminal evidence at the highest level. She stood in court as an expert witness, repeatedly putting her research and reputation on the line, all in the name of justice. True crime cases from historic poisonings to modern sexual offences, Sue Black traces the evolution of forensic science from early identification methods to more recent breakthroughs … Continue reading How justice plays out

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What it means to be Black in America

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Cebo Campbell’s Sky Full of Elephants is an imaginative riveting story set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as they journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search of answers. One day, a cataclysmic event occurs, all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served his time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor … Continue reading What it means to be Black in America

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Finding intimacy, passion, and Peace with a Man

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You love your husband. But sometimes it feels like you’re the only one trying. You remind. You plan. You make everything run smoothly- and yet the more effort you put in, the more distant it seems. In The Surrendered Wife, you’ll learn why when you stop trying to manage- and fix-things, your partner will lean in. The tender touches will return and he will help without your having to ask. Counterintuitive? Absolutely. Effective? Millions of women say yes. The Surrendered Wife equips you to: Say the simple phrases that inspire your husband to step up, bring back the man you … Continue reading Finding intimacy, passion, and Peace with a Man

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Tribulations of gig-going, romantic fumblings…

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Homework is a portrait of a young boy, who keeps passing exams and  if a changing England in the 1960s and 1970s. Geoff Dyer famous for his stylish sentences and diverse subject matters, has written fiction, nonfiction and essays, with an interest in film, art, photography, jazz and takes a keen interest in writers and their writing. Geoff’s novel included Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, a novel Out of Sheer Rage, about not being able to write a biography of D.H. Lawrence; Yoga for People Who Can’t be Bothered to Do It, (2003), a collection of travel essays is the … Continue reading Tribulations of gig-going, romantic fumblings…

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Americans in the City of Light to find their happiness

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Love actually meets The Notebook in a tale of love, loss, and finding your way home, all set over the course of one life-changing week in Paris.International bestselling author and sportswriter, Massachusetts-born Kristin Harmel’s Meet Me in Paris, follows nine Americans in Paris, whose stories intertwining as they are soul searching for the meaning of true happiness and love. Julia Glover has brought her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time- but they know it will also be their last trip together. Julia is dying, and as the mother and daughter desperately try to make memories together as … Continue reading Americans in the City of Light to find their happiness

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Life of Outcasts with tainted nobility who scrub and clean the stains of our consumer society

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Canadian writer, social worker, and sociologist, Simon Paré-Poupar who did his first round as garbageman in Montreal as a teenager in “Trash” writes “The Garbageman is the Sisyphus of our consumer society. My fellow garbagemen and I scrub clean the stains of our consumer society.” He says he has personally shifted nearly 70, 000 tonnes of junk, but he and his peers are given a wide berth by the households they serve, “people thank the courier… the mover, and the small carrier. But they barely see the garbageman. They wish we could be invisible, just as they hope their garbage … Continue reading Life of Outcasts with tainted nobility who scrub and clean the stains of our consumer society

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Nigeria’s economic romance scammers providing Consistent undivided attention to lonely Westerners

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Spanish journalist, Carols Barragán’s “The Yahoo Boys” is about four young romance scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam, and moral dilemmas they face. When is mother started emailing with a handsome American soldier who promised to send gold bars to her Madrid apartment, Barragán came face to face with the human toll of online romance fraud. After tracing the emails to an IP address in Nigeria, he travelled to Lagos to find his mother’s scammers and stumbled on a bigger story. There, in a crowded and impoverished neighbourhood in the midst of Africa’s largest city, he … Continue reading Nigeria’s economic romance scammers providing Consistent undivided attention to lonely Westerners