![]() ![]() When he emerges, he brings with him devotion: to a city, a home, a partner, a daughter, all of them with their own permanent rooms in this luminous, this accidental, this precious, O body.” The word I mean is care-for the home of one’s own body, and the shelter we might make of each other. “Dan ‘Sully’ Sullivan’s O Body is an act of profound and sweet wondering. What Kate Zernike has achieved in this brilliant book is also exceptional-a condemnation of the treatment of women in science and a riveting story about the drive to pursue science.” “What Nancy Hopkins achieved is exceptional-in science of course, but more broadly in society. ![]() ![]() Kate Zernike, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science Serenade…will delight balletomanes…but it will also appeal to those newer to the dance world, with its delicate balance of personal memoir, rarefied elegance, history of the arts and pure human interest.” “Bentley, who danced under Balanchine’s direction at the New York City Ballet for a decade in the 1970s and 80s, tells a history that is as vivid and poetic as the dance itself….She weaves in impressive detail about the actual technique of ballet, articulating the dancer’s physical experience for the reader…. Toni Bentley, Serenade: A Balanchine Story Michelle Dowd takes on the real, sticky, human issues without easy answers or platitudes and with a voice that is fully her own.” This unusual lens, however, also mirrors more universal questions, such as how to build meaning out of trauma, how to tell the stories of our lives even as those lives intersect with others’, how nature is a healing force even as we participate in its destruction. “On the surface, Forager is about dramatic circumstances most of us will never experience-growing up inside a doomsday cult. ![]()
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