![]() Yogananda's message was nonsectarian and universal. Yogananda continued to lecture and write up to his passing in 1952. Hundreds of thousands filled the largest halls in major American cities to see the yoga master from India. ![]() Yogananda arrived in America in 1920, and proceeded to travel throughout the United States on what he called his "spiritual campaigns." Translated into more than a dozen languages, it remains a best-selling spiritual classic to this day. His Autobiography of a Yogi, first published in 1946, helped launch a spiritual revolution in the West. But his lasting spiritual legacy has been even greater. Yogananda's initial impact on the western culture was truly impressive. Paramhansa Yogananda (sometimes spelled Paramahansa Yogananda), 1893 – 1952, was the first yoga master of India to take up permanent residence in the West. ![]()
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![]() His memory is newly riddled with gaps his frustration as he attempts to discern what’s real, what’s remembered, and what’s paranoia adds fuel to the plot. Then robbers break into his apartment and beat him so badly that the physical damage permeates every aspect of his life, fundamentally altering his appearance, his gait, and his sense of self. A publicist for a Dublin art gallery, he has a girlfriend so saintly that it takes a while for her to register as a real character (or at least for him to see her that way). He’s attractive, clever, and universally liked. Instead of a world-weary detective, our narrator is Toby, an easygoing 20-something who has always taken his wild good fortune as a matter of course. Who might we become if the privileges we take for granted were suddenly ripped away? ![]() But in this latest work, privilege is French’s subject more specifically, the relationship between privilege and what we perceive as luck. In theme and atmosphere, it evokes her earliest two books, Into the Woods and The Likeness, using the driving mystery-of course, there’s a murder-as a vehicle for asking complex questions about identity and human nature. ![]() It’s as good as the best of those novels, if not better. Reviewed by Julie Buntin The Witch Elm is Tana French’s first standalone, following six Dublin Murder Squad mysteries. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the plantation owner decides to bring Chinese workers in, are they competition or potential allies? But she does have spirit and dreams – dreams of playing all day, going to school, and even of making new friends. Orphaned Sugar doesn’t have the resources or family to leave. Slavery ending doesn’t seem to have changed much, other than all of her friends moving away. The ten-year-old narrator of this novel is named after the type of plantation she works on: Sugar. NOTE: This is the second book published (chronologically the first) in the Louisiana Girls Trilogy. Middle grade historical fiction, 272 pages + author’s note. My edition is Scholastic, New York, 2015. Originally published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Hachette, New York, 2013. ![]() ![]() Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes, illustrations by Neil Brigham. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, that nostalgia seems perfectly suited to The House With a Clock In Its Walls, which is just a shade darker and weirder than a lot of modern children’s films, but in keeping with the tone of the film’s of Roth’s childhood. There is a clear sense of nostalgia and yearning in Roth’s work, even beyond straight-up remakes like The Green Inferno. At its best, and perhaps given the most charitable reading, Roth’s filmography suggests the demented glee of a teenager bringing his feverish imaginings to life. ![]() More than that, there’s perhaps a logic at play in these sorts of transitions. Older film fans will recognise George Miller for his work on the Mad Max franchise, while younger audience members will forever associate him with Happy Feet. Robert Rodriguez is perhaps best known for his work on Desperado or From Dusk ‘Til Dawn, but he is also responsible for the Spy Kids franchise. ![]() Then again, there is a long history of niche and exploitation filmmakers serving as unlikely storytellers of child-friendly narratives. ![]() ![]() Gossipy chapters discuss the many restaurants where Bourdain has worked, while a single chapter on how to cook like a professional at home exhorts readers to buy a few simple gadgets, such as a metal ring for tall food. Until then, I have four words for you: `Shut the fuck up.' "" He disdains vegetarians, warns against ordering food well done and cautions that restaurant brunches are a crapshoot. His advice to aspiring chefs: ""Show up at work on time six months in a row and we'll talk about red curry paste and lemon grass. Bourdain is no presentable TV version of a chef he talks tough and dirty. He has attended culinary school, fallen prey to a drug habit and even established a restaurant in Tokyo, discovering along the way that the crazy, dirty, sometimes frightening world of the restaurant kitchen sustains him. The latter was born on a family trip to France when young Bourdain tasted his first oyster, and his love has only grown since. ![]() His fast-lane personality and glee in recounting sophomoric kitchen pranks might be unbearable were it not for two things: Bourdain is as unsparingly acerbic with himself as he is with others, and he exhibits a sincere and profound love of good food. ![]() Chef at New York's Les Halles and author of Bone in the Throat, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business. ![]() |