![]() ![]() īyzántios, plural Byzántioi ( Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιος, Βυζάντιοι, Latin: Byzantius adjective the same) referred to Byzantion's inhabitants, also used as an ethnonym for the people of the city and as a family name. ![]() The name Lygos for the city, which likely corresponds to an earlier Thracian settlement, is mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History. Ancient Greek legend refers to the Greek king Byzas, the leader of the Megarian colonists and founder of the city. It may be derived from the Thracian personal name Byzas which means "he-goat". It has been suggested that the name is of Thracian origin. Byzantium was colonized by Greeks from Megara in the 7th century BC and remained primarily Greek-speaking until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in AD 1453. ![]() The Greek name Byzantion and its Latinization Byzantium continued to be used as a name of Constantinople sporadically and to varying degrees during the thousand year existence of the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium ( / b ɪ ˈ z æ n t i ə m, - ʃ ə m/) or Byzantion ( Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and Istanbul today. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We’re first introduced to Micco Cornell, the son of a Scottish man and a woman from a Native American tribe known as the Creek people, who also has African ancestry. It’s an expansive tale cataloguing the journey of one African American family across centuries, from slavery to the antebellum south and from civil war to present times. T he socialist, historian and civil rights activist WEB Du Bois wrote in a 1903 essay titled The Talented Tenth: “The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men.” Though he isn’t a character in this ambitious debut novel by award-winning US poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, his spirited thinking about the important role of classical education in the fight for Black liberation pervades the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The originally self-published author shot to fame through her book being reviewed and raved about on social media, ultimately pushing her into the zeitgeist of the early 2020s. One of the flag bearers of this genre is the darling of BookTok, a subgenre of TikTok videos where readers recommend and discuss fiction, and perhaps every critic’s worst nightmare– Colleen Hoover. What I have found to be a concerning trend lately is the rise in popularity of abysmally misogynistic pieces in the name of “dark romantic fiction,” so deeply rooted in problematic ideas that they are singlehandedly undoing years of work that activists have done educating young women, both on and offline. It took stepping into adulthood to let go of the idea and realize I was not playing a part in life and was rather my own person with a unique set of complexities, which were not there to aid a partner in their growth or to be romanticized for the plot. ![]() I was consuming an unhealthy amount of John Green and basically metamorphosing myself into the manic pixie dream girl trope – the girl who is so quirky, so infinitesimally apart from everyone around her that no one can comprehend her mystery and aura. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unhinged by the discovery, they reunite, each with a protest of innocence. And there's Shiva, whose dreams of upward mobility drifted away. His old buddy Rufus is a respectable doctor. The gruesome find makes stunning headlines, especially so for the previous occupants.Ī decade before, nineteen-year-old Adam Verne-Smith inherited the property and spent one debauched summer there with runaways, drifters, and his two best friends-none of whom have spoken since that fatal season. When the new owners of Wyvis Hall, a rural estate in Suffolk, set out to bury their pet dog on the grounds, they stumbled upon a ghastly relic: the bones of a woman and small child in a shallow grave. An award-winning novel from a New York Times–bestselling author: The long-buried bodies of a woman and child are unearthed on a Suffolk country estate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In ‘The Head’, for instance, a woman is confronted by a creature who lives inside her toilet, and who is made up of all the woman’s bodily effluence. The fictional short-stories blend the genres of magical realism, horror, fantasy and folklore, with some of those reading like critiques of social standards upheld by contemporary society (that don’t just pertain to South Korea). Cursed Bunny was originally published in 2017, two years after the phrase ‘Hell Joseon’ was popularised in South Korea, used by a younger generation as a satirical term to describe the nightmarish socioeconomic crisis they’re facing: a lack of stable, well-paid jobs, entrenched social expectations, an increasing wealth gap.Ī series of nightmares is one way to describe Bora Chung’s cursed tales, the English translation of which was nominated for this year’s Booker Prize. ![]() ![]() ![]() She introduced pathologist Nora Gavin in one of the most lauded mystery debuts of 2003: HAUNTED GROUND (2003), was a Booksense 76 pick, won the Friends of American Writers award and Romantic Times' Best First Mystery, was shortlisted for Anthony and Agatha awards, and translated into ten foreign languages. ![]() Hailed for her multiple award-winning debut novel Haunted Ground, Erin Hart melds Irish history, archeology, and modern forensics in her eloquent, suspense-charged thrillers.ĮRIN HART'S archaeological crime novels are set in the mysterious boglands of Ireland. Someone has come to this quagmire to sink their dreadful handiwork - and Nora soon realizes that she is being pulled deeper into the land and all it holds: the secrets to a cache of missing gold, a tumultuous love affair with archeologist Cormac Maguire, the dark mysteries and desires of the workers at the site, and a determined killer fixated on the gruesome notion of triple death. But signs of a more recent slaying emerge when a second body, bearing a similar wound pattern, is found - this one sporting a wristwatch. As with all the artifacts culled from its prehistoric depths, the bog has effectively preserved the dead man's remains, and his multiple wounds suggest he was the victim of the ancient pagan sacrifice known as the triple death. ![]() BURIED EVIDENCE.Īmerican pathologist Nora Gavin has come to the Irish midlands to examine a body unearthed by peat workers at a desolate spot known as the Lake of Sorrows. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Those two magazines, in particular, focused on the lifestyles, culture, and politics of African Americans. Heads is a collage of cut-up images from Ebony and Jet magazines from the 1950s–1970s. These same issues of African-American life are the focus of her video animation Heads. Other works such as Wigs (1994) dissect the complicated relationship African-American women have with wigs. Simpson is known for her works such as Guarded Conditions (1980), which explores the violence and oppression of African-American women in contemporary society. Recently, she photographed Rihanna for the cover of Essence magazine's January/February issue. Simpson was also a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998, which recognizes the most outstanding and influential contemporary art in our time. She rose in prominence in the 1980s and 1990s as the first African American woman to have her work shown at the Venice Biennale, the most prestigious art exhibition in the world. ![]() Born in New York in 1960, she studied photography at the School of Visual Arts and received an MFA from the University of California San Diego. Simpson is an African-American photographer and multimedia artist who explores representation, identity, gender, race, and history in her works. Louis will showcase two video animations on September 3–February 13, 2022, by the prominent artist Lorna Simpson that focus on African Americans' identity, representation, politics, and culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp spent 29 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list and was named among 19 of the Best YA Books of 2016 by Buzzfeed and one of the best YAs of the year by Paste. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli’s movie news was announced, and it was named one of the 30 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time by Paste. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth’s movie news was announced. When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore was longlisted for the National Book Award and named one of the Best YAs of 2016 by Bustle and Kirkus. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo is the only YA novel named among the Best Books of 2016 by iBooks, among the Best Teen Fiction of 2016 by Chicago Public Library, and among the best YAs of 2016 by Amazon, the B&N Teen Blog, Bustle, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and New York Public Library. Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard was nominated for a Morris Award and named one of the Best Teen Books of 2016 by Kirkus. ![]() Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart was named one of the Best Books of 2016 by NPR and one of the Best Books For Kids of 2016 by New York Public Library Young Adult Austrian, illustrated by Mike Curato, was named one of the Best Picture Books of 2016 by Kirkus and one of the Best Books for Kids of 2016 by New York Public Library Middle Grade ![]() ![]() ![]() The essayist remembers asking them about their story eventually she learns that they were from a broken family whose parents split. ![]() There were two sisters who spoke Spanish poorly and English not at all. This is a specific case study from her time as a legal translator. ![]() She says that 80 percent of the women and girls she represented reported that they had been raped by someone during their attempt to relocate to America. They are essentially violent murderers who enforce their rule by force and fear, and Luiselli describes the real situations that she helped translate before the judges. Luiselli also worked as a translator in New York immigration court where she learned about the Salvadorian gang epidemic. She argues that in America, many had become openly hateful of the poor and needy refugees among them. She describes the words "illegal immigrant" as hateful language when "undocumented refugee" is also correct. We learn Luiselli is a Mexican-American novelist who felt compelled to learn more about the immigration policy and the crisis that unfolded in 2014, when massive waves of immigrants were spilling into the US because of absolute catastrophe and horror in Latin America. This forty-question essay is told in four chapters. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an engaging piece of light-hearted froth featuring a rakish yet endearing hero, an unlikely governess and two precocious little girls who have been left to the hero’s guardianship after the death of their parents. The Governess Game (book two in the Girl Meets Duke series) runs true to form as described above. Anyone who knows me or reads my reviews regularly will know that I generally prefer historicals with a strong sense of period in which the characters operate (mostly) within the constraints of the time in which the novels are set but I recognise that there are readers and listeners for whom that isn’t important and who just want to enjoy an engaging, well-written story. What you won’t get is a great deal of originality when it comes to the plot, or historical accuracy when it comes to the situations or dialogue there’s no real sense of being in the early nineteenth century other than, as happens here, a few references to people who lived at the time (in this case, a group of female astronomers and mathematicians – brava!). ![]() Something mostly frothy and fluffy (with maybe just a little bit of darkness), plenty of humour and flirty banter, and well-written naughtiness. If you’re a fan of historical romances, then you’ll know pretty much what you’re going to get from a novel by Tessa Dare. ![]() |