![]() ![]() Told, in most cases, through the eyes of teenage girls or young women, these stories exhibit a unique prose style that perfectly captures the conversational rhythms, and preoccupations, of their generation. Abuse, betrayal and neglect lurk beneath a veneer of mutually maintained ‘normality’, waiting for an opportunity to resurface. The characters in Mirja Unge’s debut collection are all, in their own way, evading something whether failing to confront the true nature of an encounter, or avoiding responsibilities as a parent, sibling or friend. ![]() In a checkout queue, a woman suddenly shows charity to a penniless guy she apparently doesn’t know. In a remote woodland cottage, an eccentric explains to his granddaughter why he shoots cats whenever they make themselves too comfortable. On Christmas Eve, a girl stalks an older man through wintery city streets, haunted by their shared past. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Andrew Cuomo just put forward an austerity budget that many school officials say will result in big cuts to academic programs and teaching staff. For proof of that, consider the politics swirling around last week’s Super Bowl in the New York City region. In all, the conservative American Enterprise Institute reports that under the bill, annual subsidies could increase by up to $15 billion.Įven the sports world is plagued by selective deficit disorder. Yet, the same bill increased massive subsidies that disproportionately benefit wealthy farmers and agribusinesses. Citing deficit concerns, House Republicans crafted the bill to include an $8 billion cut to the federal food stamp program. In Washington, for instance, the disorder was on prominent display in Congress’s new farm bill. ![]() It is what I’ve previously called selective deficit disorder - and it was hard to miss in the past few weeks. When it comes to budgetary matters, such a lack of remorse translates into something even worse than cognitive dissonance - something more akin to pathology. In politics, this term is a misnomer, because while many lawmakers, operatives and activists present oxymoronic views, many of them don’t appear to feel any stress about that. “Cognitive dissonance” is the clinical term used to describe stress that arises from holding contradictory beliefs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Use a zero to round the number to the nearest single digit. The same thing applies to the next two formulas that round to hundreds and tens.Ĩ00 is closer to 823.7825 than to 900. Use a negative number here because you want the rounding to happen to the left of the decimal point. To round the number to the nearest:Ĩ23.7825 is closer to 1,000 than to 0 (0 is a multiple of 1,000 ) The second argument is the number of digits you want to round the number to. The first argument is the number you want to round, which can be a cell reference or a number. ![]() This function has only two arguments (arguments are pieces of data the formula needs to run). Round a number to the number of digits you want by using the ROUND function. In the Decimal places box, enter the number of decimal places that you want to display. In the Category list, depending on the type of data you have, click Currency, Accounting, Percentage, or Scientific. On the Home tab, in the Number group, click the arrow next to the list of number formats, and then click More Number Formats. On the Home tab, click Increase Decimal or Decrease Decimal to show more or fewer digits after the decimal point. ![]() Select the cells that you want to format. If you want to round a number to the nearest major unit, such as thousands, hundreds, tens, or ones, use a function in a formula, follow these steps: If you don’t want unnecessary decimal places in cells because they cause # symbols to appear, or you don’t need accuracy down to the microscopic level, change the cell format to get the number of decimal places you want. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seizing the opportunity to make her mark on the world, April now has to deal with the consequences her new particular brand of fame has on her relationships, her safety, and her own identity. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world-from Beijing to Buenos Aires-and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. ![]() ![]() Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship-like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor-April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. Roaming through New York City at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. In his wildly entertaining debut novel, Hank Green -cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow -spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. But beneath its effervescent tone, more complex themes are at play.” -San Francisco Chronicle “Sparkling with mystery, humor and the uncanny, this is a fun read. Synopsis: THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ![]() ![]() and that her life has far darker undercurrents than she ever imagined. Eureka is about to discover that the ancient tale is more than a story, that Ander might be telling the truth. The book contains a haunting tale about a girl who got her heart broken and cried an entire continent into the sea. ![]() She has little left that she cares about, just her oldest friend, Brooks, and a strange inheritance - a locket, a letter, a mysterious stone, and an ancient book no one understands. ![]() But now her mother is gone, and everywhere Eureka goes he is there: Ander, the tall, pale blond boy who seems to know things he shouldn't, who tells Eureka she is in grave danger, who comes closer to making her cry than anyone has before.īut Ander doesn't know Eureka's darkest secret: ever since her mother drowned in a freak accident, Eureka wishes she were dead, too. The first in a new series by Lauren Kate, the 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series, Teardrop is an epic saga of heart-stopping romance. Eureka Boudreaux's mother drilled that rule into her daughter years ago. a world where everything you love can be washed away. ![]() ![]() The first in a new series by Lauren Kate, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series, Teardrop is an epic saga of heart-stopping romance, devastating secrets, and dark magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lawrence Stone, The Causes of the English Revolution 1529–1642 (London, 1972), p. Hinds (ed.), Calendar of State Paper and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs, Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice (London, 1911), XVII, 75–6. 205.ĭavid Cressy, ‘Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England’, Journal of British Studies, 35 (October 1996), 451.Īllen B. 110.Ĭompare Roger Lockyer, James VI and I (London, 1998), p. Houston, James I, 2nd edn (London, 1995), p. Roger Lockyer, Buckingham: The Life and Political Career of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham 1592–1628 (London, 1981) Lee, ‘James I and the Historians’, p. Johnson, Maija Jansson Cole, Mary Frear Keeler, and William B. ![]() Maurice Lee Jr, ‘James I and the Historians: Not a Bad King After All?’, Albion, 16 (Summer 1984), 158 Great Britain’s Solomon (Urbana, 1990), p. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s to translator Katz’s credit that he gives the murder a satisfyingly grotty edge, with blood spurting and eyes popping and the like. So Rodion Raskolnikov, who does a nasty pawnbroker, “a small, dried-up miserable old woman, about sixty years old, with piercing, malicious little eyes, a small sharp nose, and her bare head,” in with an ax, then takes it to her sister for good measure. The bare bones of that story, of course, are those of Crime and Punishment, published in 1866, when Dostoyevsky was well on the road from young democrat to middle-aged reactionary: thus the importance of confession, nursed along by the naughty lady of the night with the heart of gold, and thus Dostoyevsky’s digs at liberal-inclined intellectuals (“That’s what they’re like these writers, literary men, students, loudmouths…Damn them!”) and at those who would point to crimes great and small and say that society made them do it. Throw in a woman friend who hints from the sidelines that he might just feel better confessing, and you have-well, maybe not Hercule Poirot or Kurt Wallender, but at least pretty familiar ground for an episode of a PBS series or Criminal Minds. ![]() He gets away with it-at least for a while, until a psychologically astute cop lays a subtle trap. “ ‘I don’t need any…translations,’ muttered Raskolnikov.” Well, of course he does, hence this new translation of an old standby of Russian-lit survey courses.ĭriven to desperation, a morally sketchy young man kills and kills again. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the group’s center are Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography Fatima, whose independence and work ethic complicates her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor and Noah, who “didn’t seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection.” These three are buffeted by a cast of poets, artists, landlords, meat-packing workers, and mathematicians who populate the cafes, classrooms, and food-service kitchens of Iowa City, sometimes to violent and electrifying consequence. In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. The author of the Booker Prize finalist Real Life and the bestselling Filthy Animals returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Note: For the purpose of this essay, I’m differentiating multi-POV novels from dual timeline/dual protagonist novels. As with the elephant, several subjectivities are simply that-several subjectivities, offering a richer tapestry but not (necessarily) adding up to a single objective reality. None of the men perceives the whole animal each has access to a particular part of the truth, depending on where he’s positioned.Īs writers, we can take that idea and apply it to the social, cultural, and psychological positioning our characters-which is the rationale for writing a novel from more than one point-of-view. The idea goes back even further than Kurosawa, at least as far back as the Indian folk tale about six blind men describing the same elephant. The Rashomon effect is “a storytelling and writing method in which an event is given contradictory interpretations or descriptions by the individuals involved, thereby providing different perspectives and points of view of the same incident” (Wikipedia). Lewis’s remark calls to mind the “Rashomon effect,” named after the 1950 film by Akira Kurosawa, in which a murder is described in vastly different (and incompatible) ways by independent witnesses. Complement-or contradict-rather than confirm. ![]() In other words, two perspectives will inevitably diverge rather than corroborate. ![]() Lewis noted, reflecting on the idea that it’s useful to view something from multiple perspectives: “Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The British exported the grain, pushing up prices and leaving the peasantry to starve. The 1942-43 Bengal Famine occurred in spite of a good harvest in Bengal and surplus grain stocks in other parts of India. ![]() What was different from earlier influxes of refugees was the sheer desperation of these starving people, they did not beg for rice but for fanna, the wastewater from the ricepan! This memory was etched indelibly into both of my parents' minds and I heard stories from my uncles and others about it such as the story of the father who bought a Jackfruit with his last few "pennies" to give to his children before sneaking off to abandon them to death.Īmartya Sen (Master of Trinity College Cambridge) also remembers this episode from his childhood and says it was responsible for his decision to study economics and the cause of famines. It was the flood of starving refugees pouring into Calcutta (which until 1911 had been capital of British India) from East Bengal (now Bangladesh) due to the artificial famine created by the British which we now know killed 3 million people. Both my late father (then in his early twenties) and my mother (then a child) recall vividly one thing from the 1939-45 war into which India was dragged by the British. ![]() |