Biden's legislative achievement; Cheney's defeat at GOP primary makes visible how GOP now a "authoritarian nationalist cult worshipping Donald Trump." This afternoon, President Joe Biden signed the In

The "terror" like other of the titles of the episodes is a pun. On the one hand, we are in the period of the later 1970s, early 1980s, when gang of young adults murdered politcians and also demonstrat

I finished an outline of the two books compared and now have to think of a way of thinking about sequels which makes it interesting and offers genuine critical thought -- not that easy Volume I First

This was the movie that helped "make" Nora Ephron's career. If you look at the credits, you'll see her sister's name as a director too. I watched it as a result of taking Elaine Showalter's course at

Actually their stock of good books -- https://www.bookdepository.com/independent-india?utm_source=NL-Header&utm_medium=email-Newsletter&utm_term=button&utm_content=MAIN&utm_campaign=20220815_TRA_INDIA

The man running for British PM has made one of his imagined planks how you should not go to college except to increase your earning potential: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/aug/14/what-an

Our brief but spectacular time away in Toronto with our friends -- and what actually happens in airports and why it's important and should direct the way you vote in the next election ... https://aust

An excellent discussion on its early history and the history of the Raj and politics today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x65z6USSfPQ&ab_channel=TheWire A summary: Two enormously intelligent and wel

The profoundly important Social Security Act, and how Frances Perkins was central to what is in it and the passing of this legislation. It is now at risk of being overthrown. Since it seems clear we w

I re-began Outlander in video last night (using Netflix streaming as the videos are beautiful) and found new things to attract my attention, and expand enjoyment. I am near the end of Trollope S&S and

Season 3, Episode 4: Cold War Our POV swings round to Elena and we see the early years of her marriage. She is struggling to write and cannot because 1) Pietro has no sympathy for her desire not to ha

I'm very late on this morning's newsletter but don't want to let it pass by since HCR is so lucid. She suggests that the content of the now famous boxes of classified information Trump illegally took

I am nearly finished with Trollope's Sense and Sensibiilty and have so much to say I'll write it up as a blog.

Very good, Ravi. Just before we leave tomorrow, Izzy recorded a song she's been working on for a couple of months now: The Lumineer's Angela. I put it in a blog: https://austenreveries.wordpress.com/2

I believe I saw this movie but should re-watch it I know. I do think Indian Summers puts the serial Jewel in the Crown as secondary because Jewel is really just about the white people centrally (bot f

This is the title of one of Bowen's travel books: about her time in Rome one year. Izzy and I are going off to Toronto to visit a friend tomorrow and, with any luck, will get on a plane and get to the

The pleasures of this book are those of a sequel; it's in the interplay between the originating book and this one that the pleasure, insight and compelling interest forward lies. I spent a couple of h

Many of the titles of the episodes this season are ironic. This episode wraps up with a conclusive act three threads, while leaving yet more possibilities for the apparently 3 further seasons they had

What's in this renamed Build Back a Little Better w/bribes to take two further senators on board Bill. Not a single GOP person voted for this bill -- so anyone who professes to care about the US peopl

Having finished teaching Collins's Woman in White, and enjoyed it so much, I've taken the calendar I drew out of it and put it on http://academia.edu and share it here through a blog https://ellenandj