So heartening to see this!

My daughter has the entire soundtrack of Moana 2 playing every time I pick her up from school. Cute but not as clever and charming as Miranda's songs in the original Moana..😊

Perhaps even Sinclair Lewis who foresaw what is happening today

For the life of me I don't see how people voting in the US justify the leadership of a person whom they have already elected.

Absolutely. It's poisonous to ourselves, just thinking such thoughts

One simply cannot have enough of the entire trilogy as well as the prequels!

Therapeutic... Thanks for sharing

When I was in graduate school one "tip/hack" that I overheard was this. The abstract, introduction and conclusion of any book are the most important to read well. As in, closely. I hope that helps you with pinning down what to read with what concentration.

Given your context I think your condition is quite reasonable to impose, absolutely...

Amazing, what a contribution indeed! As an Indian citizen who enjoyed the benevolent funding that I received from Rutgers for my PhD, and returned to India, this is not only gratifying but inspiring. America does some things amazingly right because of its values.

You have a valid point. 100 pages is about enough for a story to move. Even if it's "literary"

Sorry, I meant "book" above. Also, even good contemporary thriller writers take over ten pages to set up their story. Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal or even anything by John Grisham need you to give them a little bit of patient reading....

I used to be like this for the duration of my PhD studies and I respect your thinking. I practiced it after all. However, having survived that phase of my life, I think ten pages is too short to judge a boom's promise and premise. Real literary works and even excellent thrillers take time.

Thank you for sharing this openly on this platform. Truth and sanity.

He was amazing. Edifying lyrics, saturated with truth. All played with a lovely dulcimer.

Invisible entry barriers to the publishing sector, it appears to be?

I have not been to Auschwitz but did go to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the Holocaust museum in Washington DC. Life changing experiences. Just seeing the names and faces of those led like sheep to slaughter has remained with me. And also the artwork outside the Yad Vashem was so symbolic but accurate

What a lovely place to be and to work! 👍 Wonderfully quaint but modern and traditional as well...

Publishers are selling papers to train AIs — and making millions of dollars Generative-AI models require massive amounts of data — scholarly publishers are licensing their content to train them.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Financially sensible for one party but unwise on many fronts for the rest of us.

Bluesky already gives me a taste of this feeling...

In case you like something contemporary:

Anything by John Grisham: (legal thriller genre)

"The Pelican Brief"
"The Firm"
"The Brethren"....

Frederick Forsyth (espionage /intelligence thrillers):

"The Day of the Jackal"
"The Fourth Protocol"

The movies are very good, but the books are amazing. Voted as the best narrative arc for the 20th century by literary experts. Nothing like reading the real thing.

If you have time and would like to invest in a great story, one of the very best of the twentith century ,start down the JRR Tolkien path:
1. The Hobbit.
2. The Fellowship of the Ring.
3. The Two Towers
4. The Return of the King

Such sincerity and humility for such an obviously highly trained scholar! There are tonnes of resources here to start improving one's writing skills. It's never too late. One word at a time.

Hits the nail on the head of the nail.

Sorry, I meant national "sovereignty" which Krasner analyses in terms of the trajectory of foreign policy.

Sovereignty The acceptance of human rights and minority rights, the increasing role of international financial institutions, and globalization have led many observers to question the continued viability of the so...

books.google.co.in/books/about/...

Stephen Krasner (at Stanford) wrote about this way back describing the "national interest" as organized hypocrisy.

IR and Lego are rather, shall I say,"constructivist" occupations! (Pin intended... I am an IR grad myself)

D. The decades-long framing gives a panoramic feel to the whole plot from the start.
It does come together in the end, and some may say, too late at the end, but it is consistent in pacing and even a good story by Grisham has to come to an end.