![]() ![]() It’s worth noting that we have confined our choices to novels. ![]() We have, however, tried to celebrate the breadth of horror-to highlight those books that establish something about the genre or push it forward into new realms. With such a weight of contention, any attempt at a list of ‘best’ horror novels is doomed to disagreement. It was an era dominated by brand-name authors, with epic sales and matching page-lengths. ![]() Contemporary readers may look no further than the horror ‘boom’ of the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Jekyll–these figures emerged from a culture in crisis, when twin anxieties about masculinity and modernity birthed urban nightmares. Others locate the genre’s origins in a slate of late-Victorian novels and their roster of horror icons. Scholars trace the legacy of literary horror back to the British Gothic fictions of the eighteenth century, when castles were haunted, monks were evil, and anywhere beyond the edges of Protestant England was tinged sinister. This is before we even attempt a historical context. ![]() For others it hinges on atmosphere and tone. Definitions abound.įor some, horror is a genre founded on trope and convention: a checklist of blighted houses and monstrous secrets, men in masks and women in white nightgowns. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In virtually every area of public policy, the Trump administration proved a setback for women, people of color, working-class communities, LGBTQ individuals, environmental advocates, and those fighting to expand human and democratic rights. In a similar vein, it’s hard to imagine how destructive a second Trump administration would be, given his first time in office. Ferguson case that would sanction racial segregation across the nation and so solidify an American apartheid system that didn’t end legally until the landmark 1954 Brown v. White - were part of the majority in the crucial and devastating 1896 Plessy v. ![]() Three of his Supreme Court appointees - Melville W. And mind you, the consequences of that second Cleveland administration were devastating. In 2024, Donald Trump hopes to repeat that history in all its ugliness by becoming the second former president to recapture the White House. Yes, I’m thinking of former New York governor and Democrat Grover Cleveland who first won the presidency in 1884, lost his reelection bid in 1888, only to successfully regain the presidency in 1892 against then-incumbent Benjamin Harrison. And he’s the only American president who lost a reelection bid but returned to office in the following election. He sided with the racists who used “states’ rights” to push through undemocratic policies locally. He appointed three conservative Supreme Court justices who shocked the nation with rulings that dramatically took away rights. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until Temujin was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject unknown nations and even empires to his will. Shaped by abandonment and betrayal, Temujin. Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warrior’s ability to learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him to greater and greater power. Genghis Khan was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. And so did the challenges he faced-from the machinations of a Chinese ambassador to the brutal abduction of his young wife, Borte. Through a series of courageous raids against the Tartars, Temujin’s legend grew. ![]() ![]() But Temujin endured-and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon. ![]() Temujin’s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys The Conqueror series written by author Conn Iggulden is from the historical fiction genre and it is about Genghis Khan and those that succeeded him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Offerman’s recently released book (his fifth) Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside is his way of using his own stories to share some of Berry’s agrarian values. A writer, Berry has lived and worked the same farm in Kentucky for more than 50 years, and believes strongly in small-scale agriculture as the ethical and moral antidote to American consumerism. It’s an idea that was planted in him many years ago, when he became a disciple of Wendell Berry. The problem, as Offerman sees it, is one of scale: we are always expanding in search of more. Why are we so invested in diarrhea?’ we’re like ‘No, no, no, we’ll find a new, better bed.’” Instead of saying, ‘Hey, let’s address our digestive systems. ![]() Instead of saying, hey, we’re shitting the bed, more floridly and soppingly. It’s okay! We’ll build rockets and race to Mars. ![]() “That is the purest drivel and utter bullshit that we continue to desperately try and sell ourselves. “We’re back to the human fallacy of Manifest Destiny, and man’s dominion over nature,” he says. So, if it’s alright with you, he’d prefer we take better care of Mother Earth, and quit thinking the future of humanity lies on Mars. For two decades now, he’s run a woodshop in L.A., where he lives-and for seven seasons of Parks & Rec, played Ron Swanson, himself a great lover of wood. Nick Offerman, it might not surprise you to know, is a lover of the great outdoors. ![]() ![]() After the crash, Perowne visits his son, Theo, in the kitchen and talks with him before retiring back to bed and making love with his wife. This event, mentions of which recur throughout the novel, comes to represent both the uncertainty of the real nature of events and the culture's tendency to suspect nefarious activity where there might not be any. ![]() and coincidentally watches a burning plane fly along the skyline and, presumably, crash. His day begins early, as he wakes up around 4:30 a.m. Written from the limited perspective of Perowne himself, the reader essentially hears, feels, and sees what Perowne does, even experiencing his thought processes as he goes about his day. Its three hundred pages chronicle only a single day in the life of Henry Perowne, neurosurgeon, on his very eventful day off from work. 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