Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Wonders

Categories: 'Literaure exposes us to Distress' · 2020 · Amazon Prime · amazon prime video · Amazon.com · Ancients and the Moderns · Apocalypse · art · Artists · atrocity · Books on Indian history · Brazos Bookstore · British Empire · British India · colonial · corruption · Covid-19 · Critique · dead white guys · decolonization · deja vu all over again · diversity · Domestic Fiction · domination · Dystopic · Eighteenth Century · Election · empire · Environment · epic · epic saga · exile · Family Saga · FUTURE · Gandhi · Garden · global literary fiction · Goddess · Good news · happiness · historical fiction · history · india · Indian American · Indian authors · Indian history · Indian writers · Jewel in the Crown · Joe Biden · Kamala Harris · Kickass women · Kolkata · literary fiction · Literature · Love · Love's Garden · Love's Garden, a novel · Ma Durga · Mothers and Daughters · Nandini Bhattacharya · narrative · Nehru · New York · Novels · One Planet Education · One Planet Education Network · One Planet Life · Partition · postcolonial · Raj · South Asian · Stories · The Dude · The Raj · trauma · Travel · Truth and Justice · twenty-first-century women · United States of America · vaccine · virus · woman warrior · World War 1 · World War 2 · Writing · WWII historical · xenophobic mentalities · xenophobic mentalityTags: · · · · · · · · · · · · · Leave a comment

Dear Friends and Readers, Is it possible? Is our Annus Mirabilis almost over? Really? 2020 is not going to jump back and take another swipe at us, sink down with us to the bottom of the ocean, turning off our living daylights?

Threefer: three novels by amazing writers Leni Zumas, Lidia Yukanavitch and Jeannette Winterson

Categories: abortion · AI · babies · Bad news · birth · Book review · climate catastrophe · climate change · Couples · Crime · Critique · dead white guys · death · Dystopic · Earth · Eighteenth Century · Environment · exile · fantasy · Feminist · HINDSIGHT · Kickass women · lies · linked stories · Literature · Love · Love's Garden, a novel · magic · Modern · modern love · mother · Mothers and Daughters · mythic women · narrative · new age · Novels · Pastiche · post- · Posthuman · Postmodern · power struggles · promises to keep · Reformation · Resistance · science · secrets · Space · Stories · Sublime Nature · The Singularity · Truth and Justice · twenty-first-century women · woman warrior · Women's writing · WritingTags: · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Leave a comment

It seems the basic reason that the sociologies of gender and science intersecting matters is this: that intersection is what foregrounds the historical and contemporary controversy about what it means to have ‘life.’