By the time I finished Immerwahr’s work, my initial interest had been exponentially rewarded. Long-time readers of Concerning History will know of my preoccupation with the imperialism of the United States’ past, and a book devoted entirely to how we as a country has maintained an image of anti-imperialism while actively pursuing and maintaining empire was tailor-made for me. From the moment of rediscovery, I could not wait to get my hands on Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire. I duly filtered them into my queue, and one in particular earned a place near the front of the line. New York: Farrar, Strous, and Giroux, 2019.Īs Heather and I began organizing our belongings for our move to Alabama in May of 2021, I rediscovered a cache of books I had meant to read but, for whatever reason, had slipped through the cracks. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.
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There may be other suspects in the victims orbit-his harried assistant, his wrathful wife, his overly attached daughter-but everything points to Janes guilt. For Allison, getting close to her client now grows more complicated with each new development in the case. About the Book Jane Knudsen is an exceptionally private and intimidatingly beautiful workaholic attorney. Some of the earliest collected editions also bore the shorter series title. When originally published, the series was simply titled Batman: The Dark Knight, with a different subtitle for each issue ( The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Triumphant, Hunt the Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Falls), but when the series was collected into a single volume later that year, the title of the first issue was applied to the entire series, and has remained so ever since. The story also features the return of classic foes Two-Face and the Joker, and culminates with a confrontation with Superman, who is now a pawn of the government. It tells an alternative story of Bruce Wayne, who at 55 years old returns from retirement to fight crime and faces opposition from the Gotham City police force and the United States government. The Dark Knight Returns (alternatively titled Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) is a 1986 four-issue comic book miniseries starring Batman, written by Frank Miller, illustrated by Miller and Klaus Janson, with color by Lynn Varley, and published by DC Comics. The hexarchate is made up of six factions, as the name implies, each specializing in something different. We all know I'm a sucker for good worlds, and Lee has created something truly unique here. I'm going to start with what really got me about Ninefox Gambit: the world. Cheris must use his knowledge of tactics to take the fortress, while guarding against any deceptions that might get her whole army killed. They like her plan, but it means binding herself (quite literally) to the most notorious war criminal in hexarchate history, a madman who never lost a battle but deliberately killed his entire army. When she is disgraced by using heretical tactics on the battlefield, the higher-ups give Cheris a chance to redeem herself: retake the impregnable Fortress of Scattered Needles from a heretical faction. Ninefox Gambit tells the story of Kel Cheris, a captain in the military forces of the hexarchate. I finally bought it and then figured I'd cram it in quickly between Waking Gods and Skullsworn (which will be my next review) since it's short. On the other, it seemed like harder sci-fi than I usually enjoy. So I'd been debating buying Ninefox Gambit for a while on the one hand, the reviews were pretty spectacular and it was nominated for the Hugo. I tend to gravitate more toward fantasy in books, sci-fi in TV. I don't normally read a ton of science fiction (she says, three of her last four reviews being science fiction). I have found my new favorite science fiction novel.Īll right, let's back up. That scene played beautifully as George had taken such care with it. I remember going to the Encino Theatre for the sneak preview of Giant. He knew that this might be a tough scene for Rock to do and he didn’t want him to feel uncomfortable playing a guy who was getting a little high because he’s sad about being turned down… Whatever the case, he really loved actors and was sensitive to all that we have to go through. I assumed that George was letting him do that, or it’s possible that it was actually George’s suggestion. He wanted to prepare us for it, and I noticed that Rock was drinking Scotch, and this was very early in the morning. George Stevens, the director, called me into Rock’s dressing room before we started that scene. It’s that part of the picture when Rock Hudson’s character, Bick Benedict, offered my character the chance of taking over his ranch and I have to turn him down because I had just been drafted. “I’ll never forget the day that we shot the Christmas scene. The fix to burnout and exhaustion and to all the bad feels we're feeling is not a secret. We talk about emotional exhaustion, how emotions work in our bodies physically, and we get to the fix. Emily, Amelia, and I talk about what causes burnout. They have a great book out, it's called Burnout: The Secret To Unlocking The Stress Cycle. Which brings me to today's guests, doctors and sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski. I threw the question out to listeners, and you all agreed you were feeling it. Sarah Storm, our producer, was feeling the same way. And thankfully, it had, it had mostly been going okay, except that I was just so, so exhausted. I'd been going and going, zooming and zooming. Six months of being stressed out about everything from COVID to the election, to childcare for my toddler. Jessi Hempel:From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jessi Hempel, and this is Hello Monday, our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us. This episode of Hello Monday, "Beating Burnout with Emily and Amelia Nagoski" was first released on November 30, 2020, and subsequently re-aired on November 8, 2021. Share your thoughts or questions about this episode - comment on the post, or email the team at For more on this episode of Hello Monday, check out my conversation with Emily and Amelia Nagoski, and leave your thoughts in the comments. The bosses set him up in a modest high-rise across from the court where his fellow hired gun will be making an appearance after being extradited on a murder charge. We find him accepting his final job at the start of the book, killing another hitman, entering deep-cover as a novelist looking for a bit of quiet in a small city. The titular character, a hitman who only kills “bad people,” is an avid reader who often plays dumb to lull his bosses into a false sense of security. King has a long history of writing books with plots about writing or starring writers, and, despite being essentially a rip-roaring heist novel, Billy Summers is no different. And little by little, the story started to spin out from that.” “I started to ask myself, ‘How is he going to do that?’ And I put myself to sleep, many a night, thinking about different possibilities, different ways that that might work. “I started to think about this problem, of a who had to take a shot and get away from the fifth floor, or the high floor, of a building,” he tells Rolling Stone. Stephen King lit upon the idea for his new book, Billy Summers, while telling himself bedtime stories. |