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I might have to feign illness to devote myself to them. Rupert Thomson is an astonishing writer, who should be far more celebrated than he is. Time is something we think we know about instinctively; here he shows how profoundly strange it really is. Instead of returning home with a tan, you will be likely to return home looking pale and haunted, and with your eyes sunken in your skull, but you will thank me for the tip. Two recent favourites are memoirs that use other books to tell their story.
In her joyful memoir Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading Vintage , Lucy Mangan revisits our most beloved childhood books Milly-Molly-Mandy crops up again , brings the characters of our collective childhood back to life and uses them — with great wit and wisdom — to tell her own story. Jonathan Cape is as quiet and aching and intimate as a James Blake ballad. Holidays are for distraction-free immersion in books with heft. Counter that with Practice: I will be in the Tuscan hills this summer and I am taking with me Shape of Light: I heartily recommend Who Is Rich?
The narrator, Rich Fischer, a once somewhat famous cartoonist, will please anyone who likes their protagonists clever and deluded, hopeful and doomed. His poems are intelligent and moving and find the perfect balance between intricacy and directness. Please discover Sylvia Townsend Warner this summer. The Battle for the Bridges, Viking.
In the second world war, the Germans used 2. I plan to read it while visiting my sister in Providence, Rhode Island. On a trip that is mainly travel, I want books that will inspire me, that are humane and thought-provoking. Oscillating between bold declarations and restrained, seething fury, the poems slowly build to a storm in the psyche. The book is a masterclass in line-making and metaphor.
It lifts me, like the best books, higher into myself. It is the epitome of autofiction — and advances the tradition to include images and photographs. Brutal and unforgiving, it explores a crumbling marriage and its ensuing existential crisis through the lens of the West Virginian working class. A classic of urgent, American storytelling.
Shakespeare on Politics WW Norton. There have been quite a few such books recently, most of them overpraised and not as well written as their admirers claim. But Tallis writes with clarity and wit about the morbid condition of love, which emerges here as a kind of mental disorder. I was mesmerised by this book, which manages to be steamy hot and sweet at the same time.
An American Marriage Algonquin by Tayari Jones is another incredible love story, though fraught with greater challenges for the couple at the centre, which makes the story all the more moving. You will never forget the story of Celestial and Roy. Unfortunately, there are no grand travel plans for me this season.
I read The One Who Wrote Destiny Atlantic by Nikesh Shukla, a beautiful, brilliant modern classic, cover to cover on one long-haul flight — take tissues! Every character makes a perfect holiday companion. Go Went Gone Granta, translated by Susan Bernofsky by Jenny Erpenbeck, looking at the plight of asylum seekers as told through a retired university professor, I found very moving.
The first is called Iron Ambition: I think the book is telling me to believe in myself, to think at a higher-than-average level, and to not get bogged down with petty things. Zach Hoover wants to help immigrant families fearing deportation stay hidden and together.
The religious leaders have a name for their network: The idea is not necessarily a new one, according to Reverend Zach Hoover, executive director of the interfaith community organization LA Voice. Hoover, 37, wasn't an active member during the Sanctuary Movement of the s when US congregations across faiths resisted federal law and provided shelter for Central Americans fleeing violence in their home countries.
Many congregations offered direct sanctuary, housing the undocumented immigrants, while others offered food and legal assistance. The Rapid Response Team mirrors that structure, but goes one step further by also incorporating private homes, which offer a higher level of constitutional protection than houses of worship and an ability to make it harder for federal agents to find undocumented immigrants. Mother faces deportation, takes sanctuary Under federal law, locations like churches and synagogues are technically public spaces that authorities could enter to conduct law enforcement actions.
The policy ordered ICE to not enter "sensitive locations" like schools and institutions of worship. Religious leaders in Los Angeles that spoke to CNN are skeptical whether that policy will stand under a Trump presidency. In the hours after Trump's initial executive order on immigration, calls between religious organizers picked up, and the network rapidly grew. Hoover estimates the underground network could hide undocumented people today. Soon, he believes, they could hide thousands.
Hoover points out that's a tiny fraction of the estimated one million undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles county. The network's focus would be on families fearing separation and working to keep them together by "moving into a place so that ICE can't find them," Hoover says. So they can be with their husbands," Hoover says.
Everybody talks about how families are the bedrock of our country. Our congregations believe that.
Pastor Ada Valiente is putting her trust in God that faith leaders are doing the right thing. The strong current carrying the Rapid Response Team is the divergence of federal laws and the moral teachings of their religions. Hoover points to the Bible's Matthew 25, which teaches the faithful should feed the hungry and fight for those in prison.
That's who I'm going to see when I die. Pastor Valiente echoes that sentiment, saying US immigration laws are broken and her church's foundation are the families. Valiente says she's praying President Trump's heart will grow more compassionate to the plight of undocumented immigrants.
The Jewish man offering his home as a safe house says he draws upon his religion's history during WWII.
As the Nazis rounded up Jews for detention and eventual extermination, Germans resisted their government, hiding their Jewish friends and neighbors in attics and basements. Volunteers call elected officials at the Temple Israel of Hollywood. We'd like to be the people who did. He's not the only one in his community feeling this way. Volunteers are flooding in to offer to help with the network at Temple Israel of Hollywood, according to Heidi Segal, the temple's vice president of social action.
Three weeks ago, Temple Israel of Hollywood began a phone bank to call lawmakers. On the day CNN visited the temple, the room was filled with volunteers. While the temple is not offering direct refuge at their temple for the undocumented, volunteers will escort immigrants for deportation interviews.