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In a letter to her editor at The New Yorker, the Irish writer Maeve Brennan described the emotional landscape provided by her mother: She gave me an asylum for my affections and I learned that my affections so far exceeded her ability to understand me that she came near to drowning. In this new anthology of essays about Maeve Brennan, ten contemporary Irish writers consider the various meanings of the word asylum: an institution, a site of incarceration, a refuge and a shelter. They explore cityscapes and girlhood, mythology and folklore, loneliness and transience, the emotional impact of history and diaspora, as well as family connections to Brennan. These sketches offer new and broader perspectives on Brennans life and the continuing impact of her work in the 21st century. Contributors include: Darran Anderson Niamh Campbell Mary Cregan Roddy Doyle Arnold Thomas Fanning Sinead Gleeson Belinda McKeon Eilis Ni Dhuibhne Kate Phelan Jessica Traynor

Cuando la Dama de Elche fue descubierta, allá en 1897, se dijo que condensaba la esencia de España misma. Hoy miramos esta escultura con una distancia más objetiva, pero igual de intrigados. De entre todos los pueblos que habitaron en la peninsula antes de la llegada de los romanos, los iberos de la region meridional fueron los unicos que tallaron en piedra a sus mujeres aristocratas, y solo durante un breve periodo. La explicacion al enigma requiere reconstruir de la mano de la arqueologia los vestigios de aquel fascinante mundo perdido donde la mujer jugaba un papel esencial y tenian reservadas parcelas de poder. En las paginas de este libro, el historiador Jesus Manuel de la Cruz Martin desgrana los mas famosos hallazgos y yacimientos desde la Prehistoria hasta la Edad del Hierro para comprender mejor la cultura ibera, tanto en su contexto general como en el ambiente femenino que vivieron estos pueblos. Este es el unico camino posible para entender la razon de ser de la Dama de Elche y de todas sus compañeras. Libro ilustrado por la historiadora y arqueologa Silvia Martinez Amoros?

«Una exposición desgarradora e incendiaria de la verdadera Maldición de los Kennedy: el legado de generaciones de misoginia, asesinato y caos familiar». KAREN ABBOTTEl apellido Kennedy ha sido sinóni

¿En qué momento dejamos de ser grecorromanos para ser únicamente judeocristianos? Sophie Bessis traza la génesis de una etiqueta cargada de ideología, una definición fraudulenta de Occidente.La idea de una civilizacion judeocristiana no tiene nada de neutral. De hecho, oculta mucho mas de lo que revela: instrumentalizada por Estados, lideres politicos y movimientos nacionalistas, sirve para justificar el sectarismo, reescribir la Historia y reforzar divisiones geopoliticas. El sionismo y, desde su fundacion, el Estado de Israel se basa en ella para afirmar su alineacion con Occidente, presentandose como la avanzadilla de la civilizacion judeocristiana en oposicion al llamado enemigo arabe-musulman. A su vez, los nacionalismos arabes aprovechan esta etiqueta para suprimir o soslayar la huella judia dentro de sus propias historias.Sophie Bessis analiza en este ensayo las bases ideologicas de un constructo que encubre siglos de antisemitismo cristiano, orilla las contribuciones de Oriente a la civilizacion occidental y excluye al islam del acervo cultural europeo. Gracias a este equivoco, tanto el antisemitismo como su antitesis, el filosemitismo, apuntalan el mito de la excepcionalidad hebrea, condenando al judio a ser sobre todo y ante todo judio, antes que ciudadano. Nunca ha sido tan urgente poner de manifiesto las distorsiones de un mito que sigue configurando el debate publico y las relaciones internacionales.La critica ha dicho...Bessis deconstruye de forma pormenorizada un termino que en la decada de 1980 se convirtio en un mantra del discurso politico dominante en Occidente. LOrient-Le JourEl gran reemplazo existe. Precisemos que es de orden lexico: las raices grecorromanas de Europa que se enseñaban antaño han sido sustituidas por una etiqueta sorprendente: la "civilizacion judeocristiana". Le MondeMas alla de su valor historico, el recrudecimiento de los conflictos en Oriente Medio desde el 7 de octubre de 2023 y la masacre de Gaza hacen que este libro resulte especialmente relevante. Jean Marie Harribey

Because he had the courage to make his passionate protest against a worldwide terror, Castellios feud with Calvin must remain everlastingly memorable Stefan Zweig saw sixteenth-century Geneva as a place gripped by heresy-hunting fanaticism and raging ideologies of violence. A world in which free-thinking humanists too often foresaw, and failed to protest, the disasters that draconian leaders would bring upon Europe. Theologian and writer Sebastian Castellio, however, did condemn the burning of heretics as murder and advocated for religious tolerance, at great personal cost. Written in 1936 when Zweig himself had just fled the rise of Nazism, The Right to Heresy is the story of Castellios feud with Calvinist doctrine, and an urgent polemic on individual sacrifices made, throughout history, in resistance to authoritarianism.

This book is the essential companion for those who wish to learn about and visit the Inner Hebridean islands of Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna, known collectively as the Small Isles. As well as focusing on history, archaeology and landscape change from earliest times to the present day, it is a fascinating account of the people who have lived there their subsistence, legends and superstitions, interactions and the ways in which they exploited the land and the sea. It takes the reader through prehistoric landscapes and Iron Age forts into the Age of the Saints and the incoming Vikings. The islands are rich in monastic tradition and rife with the clan feuding of the Middle Ages. Contemporary descriptions help explore population change, townships, the boom and bust of the kelp industry and the devastation brought about by the Clearances before the late 19th century, when wealthy aristocrats created great sporting estates.

Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maurs first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her bohemian home town, Montreal. Sensing Melissas talent, Billy Corgan recommended her to Courtney Love. Whisked from her local scene, Melissa joined Hole just after the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Holes prior bassist, Kristen Pfaff, with the just-widowed Courtney Love at the centre of it all.That was only the beginning of Melissas journey through alternative rock, a trip she undertook alongside 90s luminaries including Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe and her former boyfriend, Dave Grohl. Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a vivid dispatch from the last analogue decade, capturing that bygone era in all its messy, angsty glory.

A compelling, intimate memoir of grief, heartbreak and what we owe the natural world all learned from the dog who saved her life.Only a teenager when her beloved father was murdered by his political opponents, as an adult Fatima Bhutto longed to build a happy family life. When she met a charismatic, alluring man, she thought she had found something special.This is the story of how Fatima freed herself from the tight coils of the mans manipulative charm and his dangerous, intoxicating hold over her. Its a tale that crosses continents, and travels into myth, literature, astronomy and art. By Fatimas side for the entire journey is Coco: a small, ferociously loyal Jack Russell terrier.In The Hour of the Wolf, Fatima Bhutto weaves wolf ethnography with her own suppressed maternal instinct; and an exploration of coercive attachments with one of humanitys connection to nature. The result is a memoir as intellectually compelling as it is intimate and evocative.

A line of pain runs through generations of families until one generation stops to question the ancestral forces behind the door. In Life & Fable Guislaine Vincent explores archetypal patterns in the ancestral background of her familys storytelling, peeling away the layers to discover a self in myth and fable. As the narrative unfolds, its the implacable presence of childhood that recurs, not only in events, but in how events reveal the self. Mektoub, my father would say: it is written. From a great grandfather found in the deserts of Syria and named after the monastery that takes him in to the pain of losing a child; from a childhood of 14 schools across multiple countries to training as a Jungian Psychoanalyst, this is a life story that asks deep questions about who we are and how we peel back reality to find the truth in fables. A story of resilience and the epiphany of how powerful it is to have a name.

Uma história real e impactante sobre amor, esperança e resiliênciaDois sobreviventes do Holocausto se apaixonaram em Auschwitz, vivendo os piores anos de suas vidas em busca de momentos de alívio e a

The Script of Stones follows a short walk along the dramatic clifftops of Gower, South Wales - a journey of barely half a mile that becomes an expansive meditation on nature, memory, and loss. Drawing on a lifetimes intimacy with this landscape, Francis Gooding explores rockpools and limestone strata, traces the movements of choughs and adders, and examines everything from slugs to geological deep time.In our age of environmental uncertainty, Gooding confronts how knowledge of climate change has destabilised our relationship with the natural world. Part elegy, part celebration, The Script of Stones weaves together family history and the wonder of the miniscule to paint a portrait of a world that exists before, during and after us - a world that will endure.

Learning to Drink and What Came After is an irreverent take on a life that has been lived across the pages of The Times, within the darkly glamorous haunts of Soho and behind the scenes at The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.Geradines remarkable life has enjoyed a ringside seat in the drinking dens of Soho alongside artists and criminals, the last days (and nights) of 1970s Fleet Street, the lofty world of the Mayfair auction houses and the dangerous glamour of post-glasnost Saint Petersurg.

Hannah Richell was lost in writing her new novel when the outside world finally broke in to tell her that her husband, Matt, had been killed in a surfing accident. This the story of the grief journey she travelled over the first two years of loss, but it is also an account of what happens beyond those early years, when time and distance have offered some perspective and healing.Not just a love letter to her late husband, but a love letter to the country that stole her heart, to motherhood, and to the healing power of creative endeavours. More than anything, its a story of recovery and hope.

The leading authority on our contemporary prime ministers Dominic Grieve, GuardianAfter almost a decade and a half of Tory rule, the 2024 General Election saw the Conservatives suffer their worst-ever defeat: they received 7.14 million fewer votes than in 2019; 23.7 per cent is their lowest ever vote share; and their current 121 MP contingent is their smallest since 1832. Meanwhile, the rise of Reform threatens the partys very existence.How did it all go wrong so quickly, following Boris Johnsons record-setting win in 2019?From taking office amidst the cost of living and energy supply crises and the panic caused by Liz Trusss disastrous mini-budget, through the agenda-dominating Ukraine and Gaza wars and the Rwanda Asylum Plan, to the stunning 2023 local election results, Sunak at 10 is the definitive and jaw-dropping window into Rishi Sunaks premiership.

London is a city steeped in history, a place where the past lingers in every shadow. More than 2,000 years in the making and covering 600 square miles, like any modern capital it reinvents itself on an almost perpetual basis, yet its almost impossible to walk its streets without finding a survivor from one of its previous incarnations. Besides fragments of Roman wall, intact Norman churches and even traces of the odd Saxon fish trap in the Thames, London still boasts working medieval markets, a handful of ancient timber-framed survivors of the Great Fire, and scores of streets and squares that grew out of early experiments in town planning. Many of these treasures are enjoyed by visitors, but an awful lot has been lost over the intervening years. Often there are tantalizing clues to what has gone, in old documents, fading photographs, or a curious street name. This book provides the perfect place to begin a search for the lost history of London.

Blending biography, memoir and art criticism, Fancy Work: Unpicking Past Lives explores the ever-shifting tensions between family, labour and gender through the history of embroidery, or fancy work. At the heart of the book is Alice Hattricks encounter with the embroidery designer May Morris and her circle: from her father William Morris to her mother Jane, an artists model and embroiderer herself, and M.F., Mays gender non-conforming partner for twenty years. Searching for guidance, Hattrick looks to Mays life alongside others who have found, in textiles, a means of resistance to understand better their own queer identity, family ties and fractious working conditions in an ableist society. In the ephemeral nature of textiles, Hattrick finds a mirror to archival research. How can the past help us to imagine alternative domestic circumstances and create unconstrained lives of our own, especially when not all traces remain? Expansive in thought, form and time, Fancy Work is a radical and thrilling work that reminds us that we can think differently, inviting us to place the needle in our own hands and stitch ourselves a loop in the chain.

Rivers Run is a love letter to Britains rivers and waterways by well-known angler and naturalist Kevin Parr. On a journey around his favourite watery hideaways such as the River Stour in Dorset, the Exe in Devon, the Avon in the Midlands and Parrs Pool in Shropshire the author shares the thoughts and insights that bubble up while sitting peacefully by the riverside, watching the world go by and waiting for the fish to bite.Each river that he visits has played a central part in his own development as both an angler and a person, and reflects the ways in which landscape, wildlife and plants mirror the themes that flow through all our lives. Rivers Run is a delightful yet profound philosophical and poetic examination of water, of the fish that live within it, the nature that surrounds it and how human life is intrinsically linked to its flow.

In this vivid blend of memoir, nature writing and ecological thinking, Rebecca Tamás seeks new answers in old folk ways. Suffering from burn-out and grief both environmental and personal, Tamás sets out on a journey across the UK guided by the Pagan wheel of the year, marking each solstice, equinox and the midpoints between them with a ritual drawn from ancient traditions. From a confrontation with the sharp pains of winter at Samhain in Edinburgh to a giddy experience of collective joy at Padstows May Day, she finds in these traditional practices electric potential for transforming our relationship to the natural world and the flow of time. Intellectually penetrating and richly lyrical, The Book of Mysteries follows the drumbeat of seasonal ritual towards an immersion in the wild time of the earth. Ecstatic, radical and irreverent, this book is a rallying cry to wrest time away from the structures of work and capital, so as to encounter the life-giving mystery of the natural world.

When Titanic left Southampton in 1912, neither the Aristocrat, The Countess of Rothes, nor the Able Seaman, Thomas Jones, imagined meeting, let alone navigating a tiny lifeboat together at night, among towering icebergs. But Jones put Noel Rothes at the tiller of his boat when he realised her calm capability, and for seven long hours they did all they could to shepherd at least twenty-five others to safety. Their ordeal forged an unlikely affinity that lasted until Noel died in 1956.Angela Young, Noels great-granddaughter, tells the stories of these two courageous Titanic survivors and considers why so very few people survived the tragedy.

This book tells the story of the making of Grimsby. It describes how the town grew on the ground and so helps to explain Grimsbys present-day physical character. The story is an intriguing one and includes colourful controversies and conflicts that influenced the towns development.The story begins with the Viking foundation of Grimsby. During the years following the Norman Conquest the town became a successful trading community and port. This was followed by a long period of decline. The towns fortunes were revived with the coming of the railway in 1848 and the constructions of an extensive dock system. There then followed a massive increase in trade, and the foundation of the ports modern fishing industry. In the process, it attracted immigration. This new population needed somewhere to live. Consequently, land was quickly covered with houses. The long-term effect of this period of extensive and intensive building which is described in this book was to determine to a large extent the shape and character of the modern town.