![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each person was responsible for doing their part, whatever that part was. Unlike the ancient Greek belief system, the ancient Romans believed that achieving peace and harmony in society required maintaining a positive relationship with the gods and goddesses by all to achieve that equilibrium, as the gods and goddesses walked among us daily. ![]() It has been compiled to assist those interested in learning more about the cultus deorum Romanum and related Roman culture, both ancient and modern, and has been designed to be of practical use by the religio practitioner and reference guide for the non-practitioner. This work is a compilation of writings, articles, opinions and beliefs from many practitioners of the Religio Romana in Nova Roma, the global Roman Reconstruction effort in our modern age. Not a congregational religion, the cultus deorum Romanum is a religious system based on individual practices, household and ancestor worship, and religion of the state. It is a guide for the practitioner of the cultus deorum Romanum, the ancient Roman religious system as practiced in the modern time. The Religio Romana Handbook: A Guide for the Modern Practitioner, 2nd Edition, is the first volume in the series, “The Modern Roman Living Series,” by Lucius Vitellius Triarius. ![]()
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![]() Jay-Z and Eminem’s NYC Blowout With Kanye West, Chris Martin, Drake, and Nicki Minaj Jay writes that Em should have been “on a boat somewhere” rather than living in fear for his life. Jay also writes about his 2003 collaboration with Eminem, “Moment of Clarity.” At the studio session, Jay went to hug his friend, and realized Em was wearing a bulletproof vest. Minutes later, he saw the K-9 unit tearing down the highway in the other direction, but he was already free. But the unit didn’t show up, and Jay was released. The day before, Jay will hold a talk at the New York Public Library, hosted by Cornel West, along with the library’s Paul Holdengräber.ĭuring his early years as a crack dealer, Jay was driving down Interstate-95 with a stash hidden in his car, and was pulled over by police for “no good reason.” The officers couldn’t search the car without probable cause, so a K-9 unit was called. Photos: Hip-Hop Royalty: How Jay-Z and Beyoncé Run This Townĭecoded goes on sale November 16. Great stories about Notorious B.I.G.? Indeed. Anger at Cristal’s apparent repudiation of the hip-hop culture that brought it millions? Sure. ![]() Pulled over by cops with drugs in the car? Check. ![]() Excerpts from Jay-Z’s forthcoming book Decoded were published in the New York Post this week, and they promise that the book will be every bit as entertaining as fans have been anticipating. ![]() ![]() ![]() From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantanamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Wherever the flag went, “The Fighting Quaker” went-serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. Bestselling books were written about him. ![]() ![]() Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power-and how its legacies shape our world today-told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this conversation, Jenny and I discuss the difference between productivity and creativity, how artists orchestrate attention, the ideologies we use to value our time, what it means to do nothing, restoring context to our lives and words, why “groundedness requires actual ground,” lucid dreaming, the joys of bird watching, my difficulty appreciating conceptual art, her difficulty with meditation, and much more. ![]() And she’s a visual artist who has taught digital and physical design at Stanford since 2013, as well as done residencies at Facebook, San Francisco Recology, and the Internet Archive.Īll of which is to say she’s the perfect person to talk to about creativity and attention in a world designed to flatten both. ![]() Odell is the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. “And yet a certain nervous feeling, of being overstimulated and unable to sustain a train of thought, lingers.” This never-ending pressure is what inspired artist and writer Jenny Odell to pen her first book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Jenny examines how, by paying a new kind of attention - our most precious and overdrawn resource - we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the. Instead of enjoying a few minutes of stillness, we feel constant pressure to do something. “For some, there may be a kind of engineer’s satisfaction in the streamlining and networking of our entire lived experience,” writes Jenny Odell. Being idle in this age of hyper-productivity can sometimes leave us feeling a sense of profound guilt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, when I wrote The Night Country, I included a couple more tales, including “Ilsa Waits.” In the novel the story is told through the mouth of Ilsa herself, which was such a fun writing exercise, especially when I got to go back and write it again from the perspective of a storyteller. I sat down and wrote “The Door That Wasn’t There.” It was so fun and people ended up having a great response to it. Originally, The Hazel Wood included only a truncated version of “Alice-Three-Times,” but when my agent set out to sell it, she felt I should write one more tale. ![]() ![]() As a writer, you always want to find that balance of giving glimpses of the culture, but not so much that the reader’s imagination doesn’t fill in the gaps. One of my favorite things as a reader is invented culture. It was a very daunting idea because, in The Hazel Wood, the book of stories is not only a cult collection of fairy tales, it’s an actual magical object it has world-dissolving capabilities. When I was first working on The Hazel Wood, I knew that I wanted to weave in glimpses of the tales, but I never anticipated sitting down to actually write them. How did you come to write this companion work, and at what point did these stories take shape outside of the novels? ![]() ![]() ![]() Outsider in the White House tells the story of a passionate and principled political life. ![]() A new foreword by Nina Turner, former president of Our Revolution and co-chair of the Sanders for President campaign, provides a rare glimpse of Bernie as a person. An extensive afterword by The Nation's National Affairs correspondent John Nichols continues the story with Sanders's entrance into the Senate, the drama of the 2016 Democratic Primary, his ongoing resistance to Trump, and the thrilling launch of his 2020 bid for the White House. House of Representatives in forty years and now the longest-serving independent in U.S. ![]() He describes in detail how, after cutting his teeth in the Civil Rights movement, Sanders helped build an extraordinary grassroots political movement in Vermont, making it possible for him to become the first independent elected to the U.S. In this book, Senator Bernie Sanders explains where he comes from. An extensive afterword by The Nation's National Affairs correspo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Half of this autobiography traces her life from the launch of Seito to the decision in 1916 to suspend publication. The February 1913 edition on the ‘Woman Question’ was judged ‘injurious to public order’, and all copies were seized. ![]() As it became more openly political, carrying translations of articles by Emma Goldman and chapters from Ellen Keys’ Love and Marriage, it became subject to official censorship. There was simultaneously a study group-the Seitokai-which had a manifesto the first article of which ran ‘The society aims to awaken women, to enable each one to manifest her unique inborn talent and to give birth to women writers of genius’ (p. Hiratsuka Raicho was the first editor of this magazine from 1911 to 1915, during which time it evolved from being concerned mainly with literary topics-albeit such topics as debates on Hedda Gabler-into a journal that was explicitly feminist. Using it as the title of their magazine they thought would therefore ‘throw down the gauntlet’ to Japanese society. ![]() Its founders felt that the term had become a pejorative for women who behaved in ‘a novel or unwomanly manner’. ![]() Seito (‘Blue Stocking’), was Japan's first feminist magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() The betting is that Portman’s muted passion project will remain a niche theatrical performer that will fit comfortably on VOD and home-video platforms. Because Tale is in Hebrew, the movie could face obstacles in the US, where subtitled films rarely become breakout hits. Premiering as a Cannes Special Screening, A Tale Of Love And Darkness boasts Portman’s drawing power - she’s not just the director and screenwriter but also the film’s star - as well as the popularity of the Oz novel from which the movie is based. This is one of Portman’s warmest, saddest performances, but it’s also surprisingly superficial. Indeed, an overly self-conscious somberness infuses the film, keeping this heartrending tale from being as poignant as it could be. First-time feature director Natalie Portman has taken on a considerable challenge with this adaptation of Amos Oz’s memoir of his upbringing in Israel and the sad decline of his mother, and she’s not wholly successful in the endeavour. ![]() ![]() A minor-key drama about a mother whose poetic soul has a profound effect on her son, A Tale Of Love And Darkness is very much like its matriarch: lovely, mysterious but also a bit insular and ephemeral. ![]() ![]() Chapbooks must contain 10-39 pages of poetry and books must contain 40 or more pages of poetry. The Elgin Awards, named for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association founder Suzette Haden Elgin, are presented annually by the SFPA for books published in the preceding two years in two categories, Chapbook and Book. Unbroken. by Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray, and Geneve Flynn (Yuriko Publishing, 2021)ģrd place: Unquiet Stars by Ann K. Sexton (Revival Press, 2020)ġst place: Can You Sign My Tentacle? by Brandon O’Brien (Interstellar Flight Press, 2021)Ģnd place: Tortured Willows: Bent. 1st place: Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota by Amelia Gorman (Interstellar Flight Press, 2021)Ģnd place: Tug of a Black Hole by Deborah P Kolodji (Title IX Press, 2021)ģrd place: Visions at Templeglantine by John W. ![]() ![]() A journey north, however, taught Bransen that his views were simplistic at best, and that some things-like honor and true friendship- might truly matter. For the last few years, those promises had become a nightmare to the folk, as two powerful lairds fought for supremacy of a hoped-for united kingdom.īransen Garibond, the Highwayman, held little real interest in that fight. To him the warring lairds were two sides of the same coin. Whichever side won, the outcome for the people of Honce would be the same, Bransen believed. ![]() ![]() The vast road network of Honce, completed a decade before, had brought great optimism to the people of the land. Commerce could travel more freely and so could armies, and those armies, it was hoped, would rid the land at long last of the vicious, bloody cap dwarfs and goblins. For the first time, the many individual kingdoms, the holdings of Honce, would be brought closer together, perhaps even united. ![]() |