![]() ![]() No one could have been better suited to strengthen bridges between the United States and Israel than Michael Oren-a man equally at home jumping out of a plane as an Israeli paratrooper and discussing Middle East history on TV’s Sunday morning political shows. ![]() On more than one occasion, the friendship’s very fabric seemed close to unraveling.Īlly is the story of that enduring alliance-and of its divides-written from the perspective of a man who treasures his American identity while proudly serving the Jewish State he has come to call home. Forged in the Truman administration, America’s alliance with Israel was subjected to enormous strains, and its future was questioned by commentators in both countries. During Oren’s tenure in office, Israel and America grappled with the Palestinian peace process, the Arab Spring, and existential threats to Israel posed by international terrorism and the Iranian nuclear program. An American by birth and a historian by training, Oren arrived at his diplomatic post just as Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton assumed office. Michael Oren served as the Israeli ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. ![]() ![]() Oren’s memoir of his time as Israel’s ambassador to the United States-a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East-provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship between America and its closest ally in the region. ![]()
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![]() Soon she's on the hunt for a legendary saxophone worth its weight in gold. When she finds that the dead man stashed a wad of cash in her apartment, cash that could go to help his blind girlfriend, Nanette's desire to do the right thing lands her in trouble. And his former partner has taken an immediate and extreme dislike to Nanette. To make matters worse, the busker turns out to have been an undercover cop. ![]() again, and when she offers a fellow busker a place to stay for the night he ends up murdered on her kitchen floor. Her on-again, off-again relationship with Walter is off. Nanette's day is not off to a good start. ![]() The first book in the Nanette Hayes series introduces us to New Yorker and jazz-loving street musician Nanette, whose love life leads her into some very hot water. 'This year's most original fictional detective - a sassy, black intellectual and saxophonist who is plunged into mayhem when an undercover cop gets killed in her apartment' Good Housekeeping on Rhode Island Red ![]() **A New York Times Best Mystery Novel of the Year** ![]() ![]() ![]() This is quite shocking to some people, those who still look on Germany as Nazi, intolerant and ugly. It’s my favorite place in the world, and I never truly feel peace or relief or joy unless I am there. In the end, the book is about far more.BackgroundGermany is a country I love. ![]() Without reading anything further into the short synopsis on the back of the novel, I thought it might be about their personal interactions, regarding their “disabilities”, with those who meant for them to die. Secondly, this character, Trudi Montag’s best friend as a child was a boy named George whose mother dressed him as a girl and kept his hair long. ![]() IntroAlthough I often read history, especially books regarding World War II and Germany, memoirs, collected memories, analysis into the various horrors and sheer arrogant stupidity of what the Nazis and others did, I seldom, if ever, read fiction books about those times.This book, however, caught my eye because the central character was a Zwerg, or dwarf, one of the many groups considered “unfit to live” which were summarily done away with under the Nazi regime. ![]() ![]() What was different about that process this time? What was the same?īarnes: The major difference was, when I wrote Crown, I didn’t even have a book deal, let alone an illustrator for the project. This is your first time working on a project together since the success of Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut. BookPage spoke to Barnes and James about the new book, what it was like to work together again and the good things in their lives right now. I Am Every Good Thing, which pairs James’ lush illustrations with Barnes’ lyrical ode to Black boyhood, is sure to satisfy even the most exacting of readers. ![]() Needless to say, the expectations for their next project together were high. James’ first collaboration, the picture book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, won a Caldecott Honor, a Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Author and Illustrator Honors, the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers and more. Author Derrick Barnes’ and illustrator Gordon C. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps from Old French gale “merriment,” from galer “rejoice, make merry” (see gallant ). Two years later I consult The Online Etymology Dictionary to see gala (n.)ġ620s, “festive dress or attire” (obsolete), from French en gala, The first one says, No, motherfucker, I want the etymology. To which another one says, I think it’s a kind of party, to which ![]() ![]() What does “gala” even mean, one of us asks, We are beauty in sunglasses and embroidery and flower crown and plaid, cocktails, Which reminded me of another friend, this one from Paris, looking downĪt Seoul from a gold observatory to say, It’s kind of ugly. ![]() Looking around its gilded splendor to say, Look what Empire is capable of. I’m going to take it? Which reminded me of another friend, this time in Paris, One of us looks out at the rows of yellow flowersĪnd says, Can you imagine arriving at land like this, thinking, How beautiful. Some of us hundreds of years ago, for us to hear, You should feel lucky In sunglasses, in lace-up boots, in zigzag, in jeans, commenting onĪ beauty so murderous and magical it emancipated We, poets from the South & West, in the US sense of the words,Īnd the East, in the global sense, walked through a blade of Vermont, ![]() ![]() ![]() Of the sessions, Bowie told BBC in 1976, “It was a nightmare, that album. ![]() Visconti’s frustration wasn’t creative as much as practical, worrying about budget and schedule. When it was finished, on the last day of the last mix, I remember telling David, ‘I’ve had it, I can’t work like this anymore-I’m through…David was very disappointed.” Of the last-minute writing, a frustrated Visconti said in 1977, “This was the beginning of new style of writing-’I can’t be bothered until I have to’. Once finished, Bowie quickly recorded his verses with Visconti adding a “flange” effect and then mixing the song right then. The song’s original recording, however, featured Bowie on acoustic, Ronson on electric guitar, Tony Visconti on bass, Woody Woodmansey on drums, and Ralph Mace on Moog synth.Īnd according to Chris O’Leary, Bowie wrote the lyrics for the song in the reception area of the recording studio while Visconti waited in the mixing booth. More recently, in 1993, Cobain covered the song in the band’s now-famous MTV Unplugged release, featuring acoustic instruments. In 1973, the song was covered by the Scottish artist Lulu and that 1974 version, which was produced by Bowie and Ronson and had a more vaudevillian feel, hit No. ![]() ![]() It was never shared as a single by Bowie. Despite its popularity now, the song was largely forgotten after its release in the early ’70s. ![]() ![]() He says he will only sell it back to them for the house's full market value. After Kathy's state-paid lawyer gives notice to the San Mateo County Tax Office, the county recognizes and admits its error and asks Behrani to sell the house back for the full auction price, thereafter to be returned to Kathy. ![]() When Kathy was evicted from her Corona house, she was served papers, one containing a telephone number for a Legal Aid office (under California law, those who could not afford lawyers were given access to the courts through such offices). citizens, at this point his new in-laws are not yet. ![]() Several weeks prior, his daughter Soraya had married into a wealthy Iranian immigrant family. Since the house's purchase price was about 1/4 of its market value, Behrani's plan is to resell it for profit. He quickly pays the remaining $35,000 in cash, and, within weeks, has his family moved out of its Berkeley apartment and into the Corona house, from which Kathy was now evicted. Behrani gives the county a $10,000 certified check drawn on the Bank of America as down payment. Her house is purchased at a public auction by Genob Sarhang Massoud Amir Behrani (formerly a colonel in the Imperial Airforce of Iranian dictator Reza Shah Pahlavi) for $45,000. ![]() ![]() In the summer of 1993, Kathy Nicolo is mistakenly evicted from her house-34 Bisgrove Street in Corona, California-because she did not pay the back-taxes owed by the owner of the house at 34 Biscove Street. ![]() ![]() ![]() We don't even know how much the legend changed from its uncertain origins to the time of the earliest surviving ballads. The earliest surviving ballads are from the 1460s - over 80 years after the earliest surviving literary reference to the character in 1377 and just 200 years after we first see the nickname "Robehod" applied to a criminal. Please keep in mind that we know very little about any of these possible inspirations for the legend, and the Robin Hood legend is made up of a lot of different, often contradictory, tales. Off with a look at real and legendary outlaws whose adventures were absorbed The major choices for a real Robin Hood, mention the dark horse candidatesĪnd outlaws who just borrowed the name of the famous wolfshead, and round So, we've found quite a few historical Robin Hoods. Last name, especially in Yorkshire, where many Robin Hood stories are set. Or Robert, is one of the most common medieval names. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. ![]() And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances And so he plays his part. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. ![]() ![]() Lady Killers, based on the popular online series that appeared on Jezebel and The Hairpin, disputes that claim and offers fourteen gruesome examples as evidence. ![]() ![]() In fact, serial killers are thought to be so universally, overwhelmingly male that in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared in a homicide conference, “There are no female serial killers.” But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, Kate Bender? The narrative we’re comfortable with is the one where women are the victims of violent crime, not the perpetrators. When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. ![]() Inspired by author Tori Telfer's Jezebel column “Lady Killers,” this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages. ![]() |