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Watch the film here When Penelope Lively won the Booker Prize in 1987, it was for a novel – Moon Tiger – that featured an ambitious, uncompromising heroine, as easily located in the 21st century as in her own Second World War context. ‘The central figure is a woman named Claudia Hampton,’ recalls Lively in our video interview with writer Jo Hamya. ‘She is the protagonist, the narrator; she’s old, ill, she’s dying, and she’s effectively telling the story of her life.

“[As] A full-time resident of Pike County since 1991, I am far too often heartsick to see Confederate symbols displayed on local homes and vehicles and sold by area vendors.Why would those living in Pennsylvania — the “State of Independence” that lost 33,000 lives to defend the Union — want to tie themselves to so-called ‘rebels’ who fought to continue the disgrace of slavery?” -Cheryl Solimini | Milford, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania has 48 rural counties: only 4 of them have substantial nonwhite populations (more than 15% nonwhite residents) and 10 rural counties are almost exclusively White (more than 95% White residents).

Read Time: ~8 minutes A few months ago I got into a heated debate with a couple of my friends. The topic of this debate was a classic open-ended question without any real answers, so in other words, great bar conversation. The question was “Do people change?” At the time, my argument was in favor of a firm no. I felt, while I acknowledge that I had definitely matured and grown up a lot in the last 10 years, that fundamentally people remain the same throughout their adult lives.

Hi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week, I’m speaking to former Miss World Japan and founder of Mukoomi, Priyanka Yoshikawa. Priyanka is of Japanese and Indian heritage, her mixed background making her 2016 win controversial. In this interview, Priyanka shares the new terminology she’s putting forward and how her location affected how she saw her identity. You can define ethnicity by blood, or what you feel connected to the most.

Our Word of the Week is hope, and that’s why we’re revisiting a film we recommended when we were just starting Word & Song. The film — a great favorite at our house — is People Will Talk, directed by the supremely intelligent and sensitive Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Professor Elwell (Hume Cronyn), a little man in more ways than one, is trying to get dirt on his fellow medical professor, the popular Dr.

This month’s newsletter celebrates the culture of Black Peru. I invite you to cook an Afro-Peruvian stew, drink a pisco cocktail, listen to Afro-Peruvian music, and learn how a Black poet reclaimed his roots. Today, Lima is famous for its street food like anticuchos (beef heart kebabs marinated in vinegar and aji panca) or picarones (sweet potato doughnuts bathed in spiced syrup). But it was more than 100 years ago that Afro-descendants cooked Lima’s creole food in the markets and streets of Lima.

A few months before I came to the US in 2021, I made a note of what little I knew of each of the fifty states here, and the general impression I had of them from conversations, news, movies, and TV. Below is my (then) knowledge and perception of every state jotted down only from memory and without Googling anything, which I feel to some extent reflects how they’re each viewed outside the US.

Koji Yakusho is Hirayama, a solitary who savors living yet struggles to connect Perfect Days (2023) In theaters and streaming While following a story on screen, we sometimes experience an exceptional pleasure only movies can provide.  On a large screen, we soak up a magnificent face, a beautiful camera subject. The hoary, classic example is Greta Garbo.  Whatever her character wanted, our eyes wanted more of her.  Whoever tired of looking at her face?

Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,  I hate to be one of ‘those’ people, but I have been saying Liminal before it was cool. Apparently it’s become a popular word to throw about, to show one’s hipness… Google confirmed my hunch: But I’ve never been hip and it’s been one of my favorite terms since I first learned about it in Anthropology 101 a couple of decades ago. So there.