The Bookmonger - Episode 442: ‘Code Name Blue Wren’ by Jim Popkin
The Intelligence from The Economist - Tony isn’t blinkin’: Sino-American relations, post-balloon
American fighters shot down a balloon that China says was monitoring the weather, but America insists was spying. It was a minor incident, but it highlights the relationship of a great-power rivalry with inadequate guardrails. Our correspondent visits a market in Mumbai to see what might be lost as India’s economy formalises. And some surprising—and worrying—data puncturing the myth about the skinny French.
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The Best One Yet - 🛒 “TJ’s Chicken fans have spoken” — Trader Joe’s Hall of Fame. Amazon’s plunger problem. Sony’s PlayStation 5 MVP
The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 2.6.23
Alabama
- 2 AL Congressmen respond to Chinese spy balloon
- State senator calls entities behind the push to expand Medicaid in AL
- Blount County DA talks more about this law for early release of inmates
- ADEM reports that water near Moody landfill fire are not impacted
- Two people are under arrest in Decatur for trafficking meth
- Mardi Gras parades were held in 2 Alabama cities over the weekend
National
- Joe Biden prepares for Tuesday's State of the Union address
- House Republicans prepare to investigate Biden and Chinese spy balloon
- Republican senator calls balloon and Biden's response unprecedented
- Democrat National Committee votes SC to be first state in primary voting
- Satanic Temple in NM offers abortion pills as reward for satanic incantation
Everything Everywhere Daily - Questions & Answers: Volume 4
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Start the Week - Power, violence and witches
Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth is ruthless in her pursuit of power and then driven into madness and despair. But the writer and director Zinnie Harris has re-imagined a new story for Lady Macbeth in her version of this classic play. Macbeth (an undoing) - published by Faber - is on at The Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh until 25th February.
Marion Gibson is Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter and is interested in how power and superstition collide in witch-trials through the centuries. In her latest book, The Witches of St Osyth, she tells the story of the sixteen women and one man accused of sorcery in a small rural village in 1582, and of a community devastated by violence and betrayal.
The filmmaker Jo Ingabire Moys draws from her own experience of surviving the Genocide in Rwanda in her short film Bazigaga, shortlisted for a BAFTA. As violence erupts a Tutsi pastor and his young daughter take shelter in the home of the feared shaman Bazigaga. The film was inspired by the true story of Zura Karuhimbi who used her reputation as a witch doctor to save hundreds of lives.
Producer: Katy Hickman
Image: The actor Eliane Umuhire in 'Bazigaga', written and directed by Jo Ingabire Moys
NBN Book of the Day - Geoffrey Roberts, “Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books” (Yale UP, 2022)
In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words, and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books (Yale UP, 2022) explores all aspects of Stalin’s tumultuous life and politics.
Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated, revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Based on his wide-ranging research in Russian archives, Roberts tells the story of the creation, fragmentation, and resurrection of Stalin’s personal library. As a true believer in communist ideology, Stalin was a fanatical idealist who hated his enemies—the bourgeoisie, kulaks, capitalists, imperialists, reactionaries, counter-revolutionaries, traitors—but detested their ideas even more.
Geoffrey Roberts is emeritus professor of history at University College Cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. A leading Soviet history expert, his many books include an award-winning biography of Zhukov, Stalin’s General, and the acclaimed Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War.
Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel.
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In God We Lust - Wondery Presents: Stolen Hearts
Sergeant Jill Evans is a small town cop in Wales with an impressive record in her job, and a less than impressive record in her love life. After three engagements, two divorces and one affair, she’s beginning to worry that love is only true in fairy tales. That is until she meets: Dean. He’s a wealthy beauty entrepreneur with his own range of toiletries.
Girl meets boy. Boy meets girl. They kiss and fall in love. Roll credits.
But that would be boring, wouldn’t it? Instead, this is a love story like no other. It’s all going so well for Jill and Dean, until Halloween night, when Dean disappears. And Sgt. Jill is left to pick up the pieces.
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The NewsWorthy - Spy Balloon Shot Down, Fentanyl Vaccine? & Grammy Highlights – Monday, February 6, 2023
The news to know for Monday, February 6, 2023!
We're talking about the U.S. military shooting down what it believes was a Chinese spy balloon and what the government is hoping to learn from the debris.
Also, a big change will impact the 2024 election.
Plus, a possible vaccine for the deadliest drug in the nation, how Google is getting into the world of artificial intelligence, and the most talked-about moments from last night's Grammy Awards.
Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!
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