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Using the stage and the bedroom, Renée E. D'Aoust interweaves dance history with the stories of contemporary dancers' muscle and
Variations in the Key of K: Stories, concerning the inner lives and passions of artists, and the distortions of history, framed through the lens of biography.
"One of the best books I've read in many, many years, if not in my life."--Anderson CooperFeatured on MSNBC's Morning JoeWhat does a mother say to the person responsible for kidnapping, torturing, and murdering her son? National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann channels Diane Foley's voice as she tells her story, as the mother of American journalist Jim Foley - in search of answers, beyond justice, found through dogged, empathetic, spiritual enquiry. In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane's chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might she even be able to summon forgiveness for him?So begins American Mother-- which reads alternately like a thriller, a biography, a mystery, a memoir, and a literary examination of grace.Diane looks back on the early days when Jim was a child and his journey to journalism, and the killing fields of the world where he reports with indefatigable determination and insight on the plight of those caught up in the agonies of war. She guides us through her family history and the difficulties they faced when Jim was captured. And she also charts the tenacity it takes to turn her grief into grace as she seeks to give voice to those who are still being kidnapped and wrongfully detained around the world.Few journeys are more worthy than this and, in this astonishing book, we are all invited to celebrate the lives of those who are never, in the end, gone.
"UNTIL WE TALK is a set of jazz-inflected ghazals tied to epigraphs from Colum McCann's novel APEIROGON and illuminated with Bill Gingles's abstract expressionist paintings. Predominately rooted in the tragic losses in contemporary Israeli and Palestinian families, the poems braid those losses into parallel losses in geopolitical race, ethnic, class, and caste conflicts"--
The author puts forth an authentic account of the Cleveland Indians' 1920 season and the incredible obstacles they overcame to beat out Babe Ruth's destiny-favored New York Yankees and Shoeless Joe Jackson's ill-fated Chicago White Sox for the American League pennant--most notably the devastating loss of their popular team captain and star shortstop, Ray Chapman.pman.
Demonstrategy shows that in an ever more technologized, globalized, militarized, racialized, monetized, privatized world, poetry is more important, not less.
Clay and Star transcends place and time as it searches obsessively for essence, truths, self-knowledge, and the divine within.
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