![]() Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. Lawrence "Larry" Lessig is an American academic and political activist. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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The publishing world of the early 21st century has little tolerance for meaningless whimsy. ![]() I have a grudging respect for these books, since I think it’s a lot harder to get them published in today’s market. It can be simply amusing for the sake of amusement, making no attempt at being meaningful in any way. Now a hilarious novel for children can go one of two ways. I’m not avoiding the serious stuff, but through a series of unlikely events I found myself diving deep into funny book after funny book. Though I didn’t quite mean to, I ended up reading a whole slew of middle grade novels that were funny. ![]() This year, I stumbled into an unexpected pattern. ![]() ![]() ![]() In April 2021, BTS was also named the Most Streamed Act on Spotify (Group), a title previously held by 'My Universe' collaborators Coldplay.BTS' music was streamed more than 16.3 billion times on Spotify, with 'Dynamite' pulling a massive total of 1,888,259, 884 times. The song spent 18 non-consecutive weeks at the top spot in Billboard's Digital Song Sales chart. It comes as no surprise then that the GRAMMY-nominated hit also holds the title for Most Weeks at No.1 on Billboard's Digital Song Sales chart, beating out Justin Bieber and Daddy Yankee's summer earworm ' Despacito' which had 17 weeks at number.1. Most Weeks at No.1 on Billboard's Digital Song Sales chart It remains in the top 50 since its debut at number 1, achieving the title for Most weeks on the US Hot 100 by a K-Pop track. ![]() Most weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 by a K-pop trackīTS' first English track ' Dynamite' led the chart for three weeks and stayed in the top 10 of Billboard's all-genre Hot 100 Chart for another 20 weeks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rachel Brian, The New York Times Book Review Here is that rare voice that can talk about the hardest things kids go through in ways that are thoughtful, lighthearted and always respectful of their intelligence." Here is the much-anticipated third book in the trilogy that started with the award-winning What Makes a Baby and Sex Is a Funny Word A completely new approach to learning about puberty, sex, and gender for kids 10+. ![]() ![]() At least visiting Lovato’s offers respite from a life defined by illness a glimmer of light in the dull grey of his so-called life without dance. ![]() The deck is stacked against former ballet dancer Angelo Giordano ever finding real love. Surely Dylan can’t trust his instincts when friendship has bruised his heart so badly before? It should be a perfect escape, and for one magical night it seems that way, but then worlds collide, and reality bites when his hookup desperately needs a friend. It’s a place for every fantasy - for crazy-hot encounters - where a night of insane NSA sex brings relief to Dylan’s fragile feelings. When unrequited love leaves Dylan Hart sleepless and nursing his wounds, instinct draws him to the one place he’s found mindless respite in the past-Lovato’s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Introducing all the anti-historical monstrosities that a vain imagination could suggest. Timothy Snyder is guilty, in the words of Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel, of Frequently, they are embellished with details that are based not in the historical record but in Snyder’s imagination. Horror stories about a no doubt horrific period in history are recounted with glee and the intention to shock, disturb and confuse the reader, not to explain. The method Snyder employs in Bloodlands, to the extent that one can speak of method, is one of wild subjectivism and eclecticism: facts are thrown in or omitted in a completely erratic fashion, based not on the objective course of historical developments but on the requirements of Snyder’s “narrative.” Thoughts and motives are ascribed to historical actors without any serious examination of the social and economic context within which their decisions and actions are taking place and more often than not without any documentary basis. ![]() ![]() ![]() I already sort of had this sense of the way these stories were being used, that essentially people tell stories about dead Jews that make them feel better about themselves. And I want to say that this is actually one of many requests that I have gotten over the years from non-Jewish publications, where they basically only want me to write about dead Jews. ![]() She told me she began noticing this subtler side of antisemitism a few years ago, when Smithsonian Magazine asked her to write an article about Anne Frank.ĭara: I just had this sense of dread about that topic at that point. In a recent interview, Dara and I talked about what she means. I was very wrong.”ĭara Horn: You sort of think of antisemitism as being something like, you know, there’s some like neo-Nazi guy with a gun, you know, that's one aspect of it, but what we're really talking about is this, like, psychological dismissal. Dara writes, “I had mistaken the enormous public interest in past Jewish suffering for a sign of respect for living Jews. There’s also a companion podcast called Adventures with Dead Jews. It’s a collection of essays with the provocative title People Love Dead Jews. But her latest book is completely different. Welcome back to Can We Talk?, the podcast of the Jewish Women’s Archive, where gender, history, and Jewish culture meet.ĭara Horn’s novels are imaginative and steeped in Jewish history. Episode 69: Dara Horn: People Love Dead Jews ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lulled by a Victorian house and a gorgeous locale, she’s determined to make the little community her home. At twenty-eight, after years as a globe-trotting columnist, she’s abandoned her controlling fiancé and their glamorous city life to build one on her own terms. Haunted by tragedy, she longs to find solace with her childhood sweetheart, but even this tender man may be unable to forgive and forget. Now she has come home, intent on making peace with her demons, even if her former friends shut her out. ![]() But the call of Hollywood and a bigger life was too strong for Victoria. Fifty years before, a group of teenage friends promised each other never to leave their idyllic lakeside town. A heartwarming debut novel about the unlikely friendship between two outcasts of different generations who, in struggling to move on from the past, discover love, healing, and family in a charming New England lakeside community.Īchingly tender, yet filled with laughter, The Lake House brings to life the wide range of human emotions and the difficult journey from heartbreak to healing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, for the skilled craftsmen that made them, any attempt to leave the island-to steal the technology-was a crime punishable by death. ![]() An object of glittering yet fearful fascination-was it reflecting simple reality, or something more spiritually revealing?-the Venetian mirrors were state-of-the-art technology, subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. A New York Times NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARAn NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA Publishers Weekly BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "e Audaciously well written … the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it."e Set in three different eras, and in three different locations-all, coincidentally, named Venice-this “startling, beautiful gem of a book” (NPR) calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado. The core story is set in sixteenth-century Venice, where, on the island of Murano, the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. ![]() |