![]() ![]() At this talk, she reflects on her relationship to self-portraiture and the effect it has had on her career, while Dawson offers insight into Freud’s approach to the theme and its role in his development as a painter. Saville, like Freud, is known for her visceral, large-scale canvases depicting the human body. Join us for a special in-conversation with co-curator of the exhibition, David Dawson, and contemporary painter Jenny Saville RA. Spanning nearly seven decades, Freud’s paintings in Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits trace the evolution from the linear graphic works of his early career to the fleshier, painterly style he became synonymous with. ![]() Join us for an in-conversation on self-portraiture between contemporary artist Jenny Saville RA and long-standing assistant to Lucian Freud, David Dawson. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “In the West, many people are persuaded by dominant secular narratives and think they already know what Christianity is about. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard University Confronting Christianity is well worth reading and pondering.” “McLaughlin probes some of the trickiest cultural challenges to Christianity of our day and clearly demonstrates the breadth and richness of a Christian response. Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford Readers will find themselves expertly guided on a journey that involves them not only in confronting Christianity but also in confronting themselves-their worldviews, hopes, fears, failures, and search for identity and satisfaction-and, finally, in confronting Christ as the altogether credible source of life as God means it to be.” ![]() ![]() “This book is compelling reading, not only because of its intellectual rigor and the fact that it is beautifully written but also because of its honest, empathetic humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing strikes a false note in her intricately created world.' - The Guardian ![]() 'Not least of Miller's achievements is to reanimate this vision of the divine in prose that is simultaneously modern and true to its source.' - Tom Holland, The New Statesman ![]() 'Miller's prose is more poetic than almost any translation of Homer. 'Only the finest of historical novelists are able to adequately convey the sheer strangeness and otherness of the past, particularly the ancient past. 'A more than worthy winner - original, passionate, inventive and uplifting.' - Joanna Trollope, chair of the judges for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 'A masterful re-telling of The Iliad, but looking at the hidden stories and the shadows beneath' - Kate Mosse, The Sunday Express It's a hard book to put down.' - Donna Tartt, The Times As great a retelling of Homer's epic Iliad as you will find.' - The Daily Mail ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. Instead they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. But she doesn’t find him, not when it matters anyway. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic…and then her bus drives away.Ĭertain they’re fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. ![]() Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Because of this novel, I will always read whatever novel Josie Silver writes (and she has a new one coming out in 2022)! Here’s the synopsis: I really want to emphasize how surprisingly emotional this one turned out to be. However, when they reunite, it turns out Jack is dating Laurie’s best friend. It follows two strangers (Laurie and Jack) who experience the ‘love at first sight’ concept. ![]() But I believe the holiday start-and the holiday ending-makes this a great fit for your December book club. While it starts off in the holiday season, it actually takes place over 10 years. What’s funny about recommending this one is it’s not just centered around the holidays. It’s the book that has it all-heartfelt, compelling and emotional. Oh gosh, I just love One Day in December by Josie Silver so much. ![]() ![]() González (“Baby Driver,” “I Care a Lot”) will next appear in Benioff and Weiss’ adaptation of “Three Body Problem” for Netflix.īlack Bear International’s Cannes slate includes Max Minghella’s thriller “Shell,” starring Elizabeth Moss, Kate Hudson and Kaia Gerber “On Swift Horses” starring Daisy Edgar Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter and Timur Bekmambetov’s “Motor City” starring Alan Ritchson. ![]() Abrams’ television adaptation of Scott Turow’s “Presumed Innocent” for Apple TV+ as well as Doug Liman’s upcoming “Road House” remake. Gyllenhaal (“Nightcrawler,” “Ambulance”) will next be seen in David E. He will both star in and executive produce the “Warhammer 40,000” franchise for Amazon Studios. Jill Silfen negotiated the deal on behalf of Black Bear International.Ĭavill (“Man of Steel,” “The Witcher”) will next be seen in Matthew Vaughn’s spy actioner “Argylle” for Apple TV+ and an upcoming “Highlander” remake. Ritchie wrote the screenplay, and will also produce alongside partner Ivan Atkinson, and Black Bear International’s John Friedberg, who also produced Ritchie’s last two films. Kerry Condon Joins Brad Pitt in Apple’s Formula One Movie In the early 1920s, he organizes conferences at Darlington Hall to allow prominent Europeans to meet and discuss ways to revise the Treaty of Versailles later, he invites British and German heads of state to Darlington Hall in an attempt to peacefully prevent the Second World War. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reason the cholera body count hadn’t grown exponentially was that only the Lewis family could access the cesspool-therefore, baby Lewis’s waste was the only source of cholera in the well, and the cholera agent wasn’t growing exponentially. Whitehead realized that the surveyor had answered his objections to Snow’s theory. Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of twelve books, including Enemy of All Mankind, Farsighted, Wonderland, How We Got to Now, Where Good Ideas Come From, The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map, and Everything Bad Is Good for You. Earlier investigations had missed the cesspool connection, perhaps because they were too focused on miasma. ![]() He commissioned surveyors to examine the cesspool, and the surveyor found that it had, indeed, leaked into the well. Whitehead realized that the baby’s cholera evacuations must have been deposited near the Broad Street well. Whitehead interviewed Sarah Lewis and learned that she’d thrown soiled diapers into a cesspool. While studying the data, he came across the medical report for baby Lewis, who’d experienced diarrhea before dying. He began searching for an “index case”-i.e., the earliest cholera victim of 1854. ![]() As the data about the cholera outbreak continued to pile up, Whitehead began to believe Snow’s theory. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout, Meloy invites us to appreciate along with her the endless surprises in all of life and celebrates the seduction to be found in our visual surroundings. ![]() She introduces us to Navajo "velvet grandmothers" whose attire and aesthetics absorb the vivid palette of their homeland, as well as to Persians who consider turquoise the life-saving equivalent of a bullet-proof vest. Her keen vision makes us look anew at ancestral mountains, turquoise seas, and even motel swimming pools. From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyons of the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of both great beauty and great desecration. Book Synopsis In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise-the color and the gem-to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape. ![]() ![]() Stress-induced hallucinations seemed a far more believable reason than what was actually happening.Īll I could do was stare at the larger hand holding my much smaller one. And I’d just learned I was descended from Atlantia, a kingdom I’d been raised to believe was the source of all the evil and tragedy in the land. After all, there had been so much painful death to process. Maybe I was experiencing hallucinations brought on by stress. Perhaps I had some sort of ailment of the brain. And those dreams surely hadn’t involved what had to be the kingdom’s worst-and possibly most insane-non-proposal of marriage to a man currently holding me captive. ![]() Nor did they incorporate it being announced at a table full of strangers, half of which wanted me dead. Never once did those little-girl dreams include a proposal that wasn’t remotely an actual proposal. Suddenly, I thought of all those girlish fantasies I’d had before I learned who I was and what was expected of me-daydreams given life because of the love my parents had for one another. It’s coming September 1st and I’m so excited to share an exciting sneak peek! Check it out below…. ![]() ![]() AMAZING!!! If you love fantasy and romance, then definitely add this one to your tbr. I’m currently in the middle of A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. ![]() ![]() Of course, health is not the only reason people worry about weight. You could also look at other factors like energy level, mood, digestive health, and lab values to assess health holistically. ![]() If people are eating a healthy diet and exercising regularly, then they are doing everything they can! They are healthy. Maybe BMI has gotten it wrong all these years?īehaviors are far better indicators of health than weight. In addition, people in the overweight category actually live the longest. At the same time, there are a significant percentage of "normal" weight people who are unhealthy, with diseases like diabetes, hypertension or high cholesterol. ![]() Research shows that there are a high percentage of people in the "overweight" or even "obese" category according to Body Mass Index (BMI) that are metabolically healthy. The HAES philosophy is based on the idea that people of all sizes deserve respect and good health, and that size does not determine health. You can be healthy and fit without being thin.Īs part of a social movement called Health at Every Size (HAES), dietitians and doctors are moving away from assessing people’s health according to their weight. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But those who have studied TJ carefully adamantly disagree about whether John Rawls was writing a defense of the Western welfare state. Scholars in the Humanities agreed that to Rawls "justice as fairness" and that fairness required a measure of initial equality (the veil of ignorance) or a largely uniform final distribution of overall well-being, especially economic equity. Those on the left who were ensconced in the social science departments of the academy trumpeted TJ's virtues but very few have arrived at the same conclusions regarding what Rawls was actually calling for. In 1971 Harvard professor and philosopher John Rawls published his very influential book, A Theory of Justice, (TJ) to rave reviews. TOWARD A REVISED THEORY OF RAWLSIAN JUSTICE ![]() |