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As you probably know, the Earth consists of 70% water and 30% land. However, all those bits of water and land are not the same.
Some of them hold great strategic importance because they serve as choke points for people who want to get from place to place.
One one-and-a-half-mile stretch of water is perhaps the most important stretch of water in the world. Through this small strait passes approximately 25% of the entire world’s trade.
Learn more about the Strait of Malacca and its importance on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
What is the purpose of a novel? What purpose or logic do literary critics assign to a novel? How has the novel changed? What does that mean for its readers and literary criticism in the contemporary era? What does novel share with cinema and what does that mean for contemporary thought?
Everywhere today, we are urged to “connect.” Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most famous injunctions of twentieth-century writing - E. M. Forster's “Only connect . . .” and Fredric Jameson’s “Always historicize!” - helped establish connection as the purpose of the novel and its reconstruction as the task of criticism. But what if connection was not the novel’s modus operandi but the defining aesthetic ideology of our era-and its most monetizable commodity? What kind of thought is left for the novel when all ideas are acceptable as long as they can be fitted to a consumer profile?
This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, Timothy Bewes identifies a mode of thought that he calls "free indirect," in which the novel's refusal of prevailing ideologies can be found. It is not situated in a character or a narrator and does not take a subjective or perceptual form. Far from heralding the arrival of a new literary genre, this development represents the rediscovery of a quality that has been largely ignored by theorists: thought at the limits of form. Free Indirect contends that this self-awakening of contemporary fiction represents the most promising solution to the problem of thought today.
Iqra Shagufta Cheema is writer, researcher, and chronic procrastinator. When she does write, she writes in the areas of postmodernist postcolonial literatures, transnational feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and film studies. Check out her latest book chapter Queer Love: He is also Made in Heaven. She can be reached via email at IqraSCheema@gmail.com or Twitter.
Hope you dug tortoises because we’re back, shellin’ out the good stuff, with this week’s encore of sea turtles, so get ready to become wildly obsessed with them. Cheloniologist Dr. Camryn Allen met up with Alie on a tropical island (ok, in a hotel room on a tropical island) to chat about flipper slappings, turtle rodeos, nesting BBs, current surfing, endangered statuses, field work, sleeping under water, world records, boopable noses, male:female ratios, mind-boggling navigation, what you can do to help them, and the many mysteries that still remain. Take a deep dive into the world of seartles. Or is it surtles?
We'll tell you about the death of one of America's most vocal enemies. The U.S. took out a key mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks.
Also, today is one of the biggest days for primaries this midterm election cycle. Many races are getting national attention.
Plus, why a review of America's organ transplant system is suggesting major changes, why an NFL quarterback is now suspended, and how many pieces of candy do you think a chief candy officer needs to eat in a day? We'll explain.
Kansas votes today on whether the state’s constitution should still explicitly protect the right to an abortion. Ashley All, a spokesperson for Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, joins us to discuss how she’s been organizing ahead of the vote.
And in headlines: the U.S. killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, Cleveland Browns quarterback DeShaun Watson was temporarily suspended, and Capitol rioter Guy Reffitt was sentenced to over seven years in prison.
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In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys are so excited to welcome the AMAZING comedian Kristal Adams to Disgraceland Studios to talk about her upcoming stand-up album 'Ain't I a Wombat?' as well as our usual cavalcade of modern insanity. Top stories this week include: Rich people in New York getting pissed at commoners using their luxe apartment pools. Meanwhile, in L.A., a lady is charging $700 for someone to watch their cat for a week. "Knee Deep" by Zac Brown Band and Jimmy Buffett is our JAM OF THE WEEK. Tune in now! Follow Kristal Adams on Twitter and Instagram @TheDarkKristal and BE SURE to check out her new album 'Ain't I a Wombat?' when it comes out on August 26. Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod. Rivers is @RiversLangley Sam is @SlamHarter Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
Eve Nunez’s life was turned upside down in 1969, when she was raped. She was only 14.
When Nunez became pregnant, a relative encouraged her to have an abortion, concerned that her pregnancy would bring shame to the family. Nunez chose life.
“I had a grandma that passed away when I was 6,” Nunez says, “and she always taught me the importance … of wanting to live, and the importance of life.”
More than 50 years after giving birth to her son, Nunez continues to act on behalf of the unborn.
Today, she is a minister and an advocate for life who volunteers her time and resources to help women facing crisis pregnancies.
Nunez joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to share her story and why she is so committed to standing for life.
Also on today’s show, we cover these stories:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi begins her trip to Asia, which may include Taiwan despite China's fierce objections.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis encourages his state agencies to ignore directives from the U.S. Department of Education.
Kansas voters head to the polls to vote on an abortion-related amendment to the state constitution.
Rod McKuen sold multiple millions of poetry books in the 60s and 70s. He released dozens of albums, was a regular on late night, and was even nominated for an Oscar. So, how did the most salable poet in American history simply disappear? On today’s episode, Slate writer Dan Kois went searching for Rod McKuen, a famous poet who isn’t so famous anymore. We’ll hear from Stephanie Burt, Mike Chasar and Barry Alfonso, author of Rod’s biography A Voice of the Warm. Along the way, Dan meets Andy Zax, a guy who, like him, was bewildered by this forgotten star—until he became an accidental fan, and then somehow the only person keeping Rod McKuen’s flame alive.
This episode of Decoder Ring was written by Dan Kois and edited by Willa Paskin. It was produced by Willa Paskin and Katie Shepherd. Derek John is Sr. Supervising Producer of Narrative Podcasts. Merritt Jacob is our Technical Director.
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