The Ultimate Summer Escape: Historical Fiction
New novels by turns salty, sweeping and sweet will transport you to 1930s Italy, 19th-century England and San Francisco a hundred years ago.
Credit.Ryan Gillett
May 27, 2021, 9:55 a.m. ET
If you think of historical fiction as a way of translating the past, does your perspective change when that fiction has been translated from another language? As some of the season’s best new historical novels suggest, this added dimension can make a book even richer, even more provocative. And none demonstrates that better than Frank Wynne’s translation of Alice Zeniter’s
THE ART OF LOSING (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 434 pp., $28), which won France’s Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. Its central character is a young Frenchwoman attempting to reconnect with the Algeria that shaped and then silenced her paternal grandfather.
The Aviation Lesson of 28 December For The Pandemic Stricken World
The Aviation Lesson of 28 December For The Pandemic Stricken World
Sri Lanka Guardian
December 27, 2020
This is not a time that the world can hide behind confusion or pretension. We must follow regulation. We must recognize that our own fallibility must not stem from pretension or contumacious ignorance.
by Dr. Ruwantissa Abeyratne in Montreal
It s better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground ~ Anon
Whenever December 28th rolls by, we in the aviation community cannot help but remember the monumental stupidity that humans are capable of. On this day in 2014, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard. The profession of aeronautics is known for the high intelligence and precision it bestows on its members, offering standardized and harmonious global laws, r