![]() ![]() The author’s condition is now stable and he is on the “road to recovery.” His assailant, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, was arrested at the scene. Rushdie was assaulted during a lecture in Chautauqua, New York, on Friday, suffering stab wounds to his neck, face, liver, and chest. Steph Opitz, the director of strategic partnerships at, reports that “searches for The Satanic Verses and Salman Rushdie jumped over 10,000 percent last week, with The Satanic Verses hitting our top 10 most-searched-for books and No. ![]() Similarly, Rushdie’s 1981 Booker Prize–winning novel Midnight’s Children sits at No. “Let’s get this one back up the charts,” declared another. You will not win,” read one recent five-star review. ![]() “I just bought this book in response to extremists who try to silence people. 2 seller in “Contemporary Literature & Fiction” on Amazon and the No. After the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie last Friday, readers took to social media and magazines to say they were seeking out his work, especially his controversial 1988 magical-realist novel The Satanic Verses that led to a fatwa calling for his murder.Īs of Wednesday morning, The Satanic Verses was the No. When someone doesn’t want you to read a particular book, it’s a pretty good sign that you should do just that. ![]() Photo: Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images ![]()
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She is known for the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series (2020–2022). ![]() Naomi Novik (born April 30, 1973) is an American author of speculative fiction. Naomi Novik at a book signing event in Philadelphia, July 2008 ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the only comic shop in town-her main destination for character reference-is staffed by a dudebro owner who challenges every woman who comes into the shop.Īt her twin brother's suggestion, Cameron borrows a set of his clothes and uses her costuming expertise to waltz into the shop as Boy Cameron, where she's shocked at how easily she's accepted into the nerd inner sanctum. ![]() When Cameron's family moves the summer before her senior year, she hopes to complete her costume portfolio in peace and quiet away from the abuse. 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The minute I came upon that white boy’s body I knew that I would be seen as guilty in the eyes of American justice. ![]() "All three of us were living according to black peoples’ laws. ( Jump down to read a review of Fearless Jones)ĭown to see list of more Walter Mosley books reviewed) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself-a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks toMaggie’s father. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father's death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father's book. His horror memoir of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity-and skepticism. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lips was planning to study the local frogs, some of which, she later discovered, had never been identified. In the early nineteen-nineties, an American graduate student named Karen Lips established a research site about two hundred miles west of El Valle, in the Talamanca Mountains, just over the border in Costa Rica. It is considered a lucky symbol in Panama-its image is often printed on lottery tickets-though it could just as easily serve as an emblem of disaster. The golden frog, which is bright yellow with dark-brown splotches, is endemic to the area around El Valle. There are golden frogs wearing frilly skirts, and golden frogs striking dance poses, and ashtrays featuring golden frogs smoking cigarettes through a holder, after the fashion of F.D.R. There are golden frogs sitting on leaves and-more difficult to understand-golden frogs holding cell phones. ![]() El Valle has one main street, a police station, and an open-air market that offers, in addition to the usual hats and embroidery, what must be the world’s largest selection of golden-frog figurines. The crater is almost four miles across, but when the weather is clear you can see the jagged hills that surround the town, like the walls of a ruined tower. The town of El Valle de Antón, in central Panama, sits in the middle of a volcanic crater formed about a million years ago. Some estimates suggest that, if current trends continue, half the world’s species may disappear by the end of this century. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1080-1215 : culture and history / Brian Patrick McGuire - c. Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-289) and index Arranged by sections corresponding to historical developments, it explores the primary vernacular texts, their authors, and the contexts that formed the expression and exploration of mystical experiences in medieval England."- of cover Taking the opposite view, this book shows how individual mystical experiences, such as those recorded by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, are rooted in, nourished, and framed by the richly distinctive spiritual contexts of the period. ![]() "The widespread view that mystical activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to the isolation of the medieval mystics into a separate, narrowly defined category. ![]() |