 Patrick Hemingway, the second son of Ernest Hemingway "who became a safari guide and big-game hunter in Africa, completed a book his father had started and published a volume of their letters," died September 2 at age 97, the New York Times reported. Of the legendary author's three children, Patrick Hemingway "came closest to simulating, though hardly emulating, his father."
He traveled often with his parents (Pauline Pfeiffer Patrick, his mother, was Ernest Hemingway's second wife) and was drawn to Africa by his father's 1935 nonfiction book, Green Hills of Africa....
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Jeannie Vanasco's third memoir, A Silent Treatment, examines her mother's extended silences, lasting days to months: what motivates them, what ends them, what it feels like to be on the receiving end of them, and how these silences fit into the larger historical and scientific research around silent treatment. In The Writers Life, Vanasco discusses the craft of writing from within those experiences....
Laura Bates--founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, recipient of a British Empire Medal for services to gender equality, and author of the bestselling Men Who Hate Women--presents a cutting indictment of our latest technological developments at the dawning of a new and scarier era of sexism. Bates, through firsthand investigation and an impressive array of research, reveals damning truths about how new advancements, such as deepfake pornography, metaverse assault, and submissive AI girlfriends, allow for new harms. She handily shuts down popular defenses of each and enumerates their dangerous ramifications, but also argues that society's unchecked misogyny and inequality is what is wrong at the core of these inventions--and what must change. The New Age of Sexism is a cogently argued demand that we stop the power-hungry trajectory toward a backward future of worsening gender inequality in favor of a deliberate march toward true progress....
