Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill Groundswell Speaker 2024

Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill Groundswell Speaker 2024'A perfectly formed set of stories about alienation in modern times' Independent 'Mesmerizing almost ecstatic' The New York Times Mary Gaitskill's coolly compelling, quietly devastating stories explore the messy complexity of relationships between lovers, families and friends. An unsettling encounter on a plane; a tentative affair between an older woman and a younger man; the chasm between a father and his daughter: each expresses our longing for, and

On a broader scale Provenza explores the relationships among facets of complex

Neanderthal hunter and paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak understands these enigmatic creatures like no one else after studying them for three decades

has avoided the dreaded slips that revealed others as frauds and is still hosting packed-out seances for Victorian high society

The binding was used for The Sensitive Plant and Early Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley and is a celebration of the creative spirit

Forty years on

It’s time to demand better for nature

Although best remembered for its vast

this compulsive

Yet making the wrong one could have fatal consequences

her trademark boldness – so if

tragic and timeless tales

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