![]() ![]() ![]() Many “woke” male students are more open to feminism than ever, while others perpetuate the cruelest misogyny. Coexisting uneasily, these students are nevertheless rewriting long-standing rules of sex and power from scratch.Įschewing any political agenda, Grigoriadis travels to schools large and small, embedding in their social whirl and talking candidly with dozens of students, as well as to administrators, parents, and researchers. College women use fresh, smart methods to fight entrenched sexism and sexual assault even as they celebrate their own sexuality as never before. ![]() Grigoriadis captures the nature of this cultural reckoning without shying away from its complexity. Indeed, college campuses were in many ways the harbingers of #MeToo. Few places in America have felt the influence of #MeToo more intensely. A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. ![]()
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![]() To find out more, visit Natalie’s website. Martin’s Press in North America and Orion Books in the UK/Commonwealth, with translation rights sold in Portugal, France, Romania, Italy, Brazil, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Croatia, South Korea, Serbia, Estonia, Slovenia, Russia, Poland, Germany, Finland, Lithuania and Spain. The Jane Austen Society is her first published novel and is available now from St. Natalie Jenner was born in England and raised in Canada, Natalie has been a corporate lawyer, legal recruiter, career coach and, most recently, an independent bookstore owner of Archetype Books in Oakville, Ontario. This February, as the paperback is released in the UK, we welcome her back to discuss the success of this bestselling novel – a fictional telling of the start of the Jane Austen Society in the 1940s – and her future writing plans, including special advance information on her follow-up novel to The Jane Austen Society, which again has an interesting connection to Chawton House. In May 2020, Natalie Jenner spoke about Chawton House as an inspiration for her debut novel, The Jane Austen Society as part of our Lockdown Literary Festival. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Utterly and wonderfully charming…” -Indie Next Great Read ![]() “Anyone seeking an antidote to contemporary chaos will find a welcome respite.” -The Washington Post “Sweet, smart escapism.” -People Magazine ![]() ![]() ![]() Russell’s rendition of Hugh in all his finery is a monument to callous hypocrisy, with a permanently pasted smugness to his face. Beyond that, it remains a sad commentary on how the entitled see themselves. It’s pointed, heartbreaking and very funny. ![]() During the winter when Hans goes cold and hungry the miller’s justification for not inviting his alleged friend to share his food and fire is a desire not to induce envy as it would spoil his good nature. There is, however, not a shred of reciprocation. Hans enjoys listening to the more erudite man expound on friendship, and doesn’t begrudge him the armfuls of flowers and herbs to which he helps himself from Hans’ garden. The former is the most blatant social commentary of Wilde’s fables, contrasting the wealthy and pompous Hugh the miller with Hans the gardener. They’re well matched, both bleak and with a broad cynical streak, yet very entertaining. Artistically this has been a great success to date, and we’re here presented with The Devoted Friend and The Nightingale and the Rose. Craig Russell, six years after the last, indicated a plan to transfer them all to comic format. Oscar Wilde wrote nine fairy tales in total, and the appearance of this fourth graphic novel of adaptations from P. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I think part of it, honestly, was this fictional promise of California. “I couldn't have articulated for you why I had to go ,” she tells me over a long Zoom conversation. To examine that phenomenon, there was only one place to go. ![]() From the age of 10, Reid’s attention was turned toward a more contemporary form of myth-making-the glory and catastrophe of American celebrity. But she was never particularly interested in how historians and politicians warp the nation's origin story. ![]() She was born in eastern Maryland and raised in Massachusetts, a breeding ground for American legends, from the first steps on Plymouth Rock to Paul Revere’s ride. The bestselling novelist who wrote Daisy Jones and The Six and now, Malibu Rising, out this week from Ballantine Books, Reid had every opportunity to build another Mount Olympus in her mind. A rooster crows from the neighboring yard, then a cement truck bumbles by. ![]() That’s why she’s here now, lounging on her Los Angeles porch in a white T-shirt and sunglasses, relishing the expected cocktail of warm breezes, dappled sunshine, swaying palm branches. In Taylor Jenkins Reid’s version of American mythology, the stories all start in California. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Together they make the perfect partnership: the sharp-tongued, sharp-witted dwarf, and his vibrant mistress, trained from birth to charm, entertain, and satisfy men who have the money to support her. ![]() With a mix of courage and cunning they infiltrate Venetian society. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west trade: rich and rancid, pious and profitable, beautiful and squalid. Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant's epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor's army blew a hole in the wall of God's eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment. ![]() |