Suleika jaouad between two kingdoms5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her 23rd birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. ![]() It started with an itch - first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world”. Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.” ( The Washington Post ) ![]() Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.” (Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review ) “I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to reentry into “normal” life - from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was never prolific as a fiction writer, but the tales in that collection are thoughtful and distinctive. Most of his early stories appeared in this magazine the majority are assembled in The Light at the End of the Universe (coll 1976). In the early 1960s Carr began to work as an editor and to write fiction, his first story being "Who Sups with the Devil" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for May 1962. Some of this writing was assembled as The Incompleat Terry Carr, Volume 1 (coll 1972 chap), Fandom Harvest (coll 1986), Between Two Worlds (coll 1986 chap dos) – published back-to-back with similar material by Bob Shaw – and Fandom Harvest II (coll 2019 ebook). He became an sf fan in 1949 and, throughout the 1950s (and later), enjoyed a long and prolific career as such one of his Fanzines, Fanac, co-edited with Ron Ellik, won a Hugo in 1959, and Carr eventually won his second Hugo as Best Fan Writer in 1973. (1937-1987) US author and editor married to Carol Carr from 1961 until his death. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century,” International Forum for Democratic Studies (Feb. Tismaneanu is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy. His books include: The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century (2012), Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (2003), Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton University Press, 1998 paperback 2009), and Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (Free Press, 1993). His research areas include comparative politics, political ideologies, revolutions, as well as the contemporary politics of Central and Eastern Europe. Hurst, 1987) for Romania, vladimir tismaneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (Berkeley: University of Califor. In 2008-2009, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In 2006, he chaired the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania. Between 19, he served as the editor of East European Politics and Societies. Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of comparative politics and director of the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies at the University of Maryland–College Park. Vladimir Tismneanu completed his award-winning synthesis on Romanian communism, titled Stalinism for All Seasons, in 2003. International Forum for Democratic Studies Research Council Member Vladimir Tismaneanu University of Maryland–College Park ![]() ![]() I think the three Thule books are 12+ or so, something like what is weirdly called ‘Young Adult’ in the English-speaking world, but I certainly must have been younger than that when I read most of them. Thea Beckman (1923-2004) is a rather well-known writer of books for older children (‘jeugdboeken’) in Dutch-speaking areas. ![]() It’s a fantastic book, second in a trilogy that I would put on the level of Narnia, Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching books, Astrid Lindgrens Ronja the Robbersdaughter and the ‘Avatar: Legend of Aang’ cartoons. So when I found ‘Het helse paradijs’ (the infernal paradise) by Thea Beckman in a secondhand bookstore I didn’t even think about it and bought it. ![]() Recently I’ve been rereading some books that I liked as a kid that I know to still make sense to me as an adult and that’s quite an interesting exercise. ![]() |