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Photographs Lead Ethiopian Writer to Hidden Story of Women During War January 31, 2021 Author Maaza Mengiste's novel “The Shadow King” won international acclaim and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. (Photo courtesy of Nina Subin) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:04:52 0:00 Before writing her most recent novel, Maaza Mengiste began researching the Ethiopian resistance in the 1935 invasion by Italian forces. She discovered photographs of women dressed in military clothing with weapons over their shoulders. She organized them by date and location. Mengist...

Comic Book Reviews for This Week: 1/27/2021 Welcome to this week in comic book reviews! The staff have come together to read and review nearly everything that released today. It isn't totally comprehensive, but it includes just about everything from DC and Marvel with the important books from the likes of Image, Boom, IDW, Valiant, and more. The review blurbs you'll find contained herein are typically supplemented in part by longform individual reviews for significant issues. This week that includes . Also, in case you were curious, our ratings are simple: we give a whole number out of five;...

English By Salem Solomon Share on Facebook Print this page WASHINGTON - When novelist Maaza Mengiste began researching the Ethiopian resistance to the 1935 invasion by Italian forces, she came across photographs of women dressed in military attire with rifles slung over their shoulders. As she organized them by date and location, she began to build a picture of the conflict she never learned about in school.   “These women decided to join in the front lines,” Maaza told VOA. “I had never heard that story. And this is what really ins...

What these 16 entrepreneurs are reading this summer December 22, 2020 For me, Christmas represents a time to commandeer a corner of the couch, stock up on snacks, and dive into fiction and non-fiction alike. The books I am most excited to read and reread are Honeybee by Craig Silvey, To Sleep In A Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini and, of course, Dune by Frank Herbert, because the movie remake looks like it will be phenomenal. So, for those who have similar intentions, but perhaps don’t have a towering pile of unread books awaiting some tender love and care, we asked 16 entrepreneurs ...

Who Will Fight for Clone Equality in New Mutants #14? [XH] Who Will Fight for Clone Equality in New Mutants #14? [XH] Posted on Welcome to a X-mas week edition of X-ual Healing, the weekly X-Men recap column where we read the seventy-two X-Men comics Marvel publishes every month and tell you what happened. There were four X-books released last week: New Mutants #14, X-Force #15, Wolverine: Black, White, & Blood #2, and Deadpool #9. Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated the fact that Fox owned their movie rights, The Uncanny X-Men suffered great indignities. Still, t...