Matthew Adams
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Writer, walker, critic. Contributes to the Spectator, the Observer, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Critic, and the TLS.
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Happy Valley Optimist Eagles basketball team goes undefeated
The Happy Valley Optimist Eagles basketball team completed its season undereated winning all six of its games. Pictured, from left to right is assistant coach Matthew Adams, Ejai Johnson, Colt Pope, Cole Eaker, Beckham Smith, Lily Gryder, Atticus Hudson, Colton Wright, Emma Massey, Kemani Pohl, Lakin Adams, and coach Evan Johnson. Special thanks to our sponsor this season, Duane Johnson Plumbing.
Veteran receives a fresh start with improved home
STOCKBRIDGE — The mission of Habitat for Humanity is “Seeking to put God’s love into action, Southern Crescent Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope,” and that is exactly what they did by providing U.S. Army veteran Charisee Willis with a newly-renovated home in Stockbridge. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Veterans Day and in time for the holiday season.
Veteran receives a fresh start with improved home
STOCKBRIDGE — The mission of Habitat for Humanity is “Seeking to put God’s love into action, Southern Crescent Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope,” and that is exactly what they did by providing U.S. Army veteran Charisee Willis with a newly-renovated home in Stockbridge. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Veterans Day and in time for the holiday season. kAm(:==:D 3682? 96C ;@FC?6J H:E9 w23:E2E 7@C wF>2?:EJ H96?
Rangers voice Nadel long kept secret: ‘I thought I would lose my job’ Original
It’s May 16, and Eric Nadel is celebrating his birthday the way he always does: with a basket of french fries at his favorite Dallas burger joint. On May 29, the Hall of Fame Texas Rangers broadcaster, 74, will celebrate with a bit more flair at the 13th annual Eric Nadel Birthday Benefit, a concert at the historic Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas featuring co-headliners Shinyribs and the Secret Sisters. But more on that later.
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Voting against CK's levy isn't punishing the students
Matthew Adams, Silverdale Kitsap Sun The CK School Board Members, who publicly ran for their respective positions only a couple months ago, are the ones who are asking for this levy measure a second time.Why should voters feel pressurized or forced to feel guilty for voting "No"?
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This way, madness lies
Using the name Shakespeare in your book title shouldn’t do anything for sales This article is taken from the October issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering three issue for just £5. It sometimes feels as if Shakespeare has the power to induce insanity in just about every writer going.
Two new books, ‘Caste’ and ‘Intimations,’ frame twin crises of 2020: COVID-19 and racism
Aug. 7, 2020 at 6:00 am The coronavirus pandemic has upended everyday life on an international scale. Among other societal woes, the COVID-19 crisis has accentuated racial disparities in the United States as the disease continues to disproportionately affect communities of color. As the virus spread, protests erupted nationwide following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor; thousands called for accountability for police violence, marching in the streets or watching at home from lockdown.
Young Hamlet | Spectator USA
Books July 2020 Magazine A review of Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell ‘The play’s the thing’: Nikolay Lazarev rehearses in the Theater of the Russian Army, Moscow, 2006 This article is in The Spectator’s July 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours Maggie O’Farrell is much possessed by death. Her first novel, After You’d Gone (2000), chronicled the inner life of a young woman who finds herself comatose following a near-fatal car accident.
A guide to the plangent lineaments of love
Eley Williams is enraptured by the metaphysical intimations of language. In her brilliantly inventive collection of short stories, Attrib., this sense of wonder was brought to bear on an array of characters whose foolish and tender sensibilities, frequently distinguished by an enchantment with the properties of words, offered the reader a series of unexpectedly joyful encounters with the linguistic register of time, consciousness, emotion, memory.
The mystery of Dickens remains unsolved
The mystery of Dickens remains unsolved A bloodless life of the great Victorian writer offers little new by Matthew Adams / June 10, 2020 / Leave a comment Literary biographers love a puzzle. But few practitioners of the craft have answered the allure of enigma with the alacrity of AN Wilson. His study of CS Lewis made much of the apparent conundrum that the creator of Narnia was able to inspire in equal measure feelings of hostility and affection.
Shortcuts to stereotypes
A useful account of unconscious bias lacks sustained solutions by Kate Womersley / June 10, 2020 / Leave a comment Behavioural scientist Pragya Agarwal Photo: Handout Attractive people are less likely to commit crimes. Regional accents are not to be trusted. Hurricanes with male names are riskier than those with female ones.
Slightly Foxed literary review
In January 1939, as Europe was convulsing to the rhythms of what George Orwell would call ‘the tom-tom beat of a latter-day tribalism’, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and E. M. Forster were gathered at Waterloo Station. It was a solemn occasion.
Irish debut novelist Naoise Dolan accompanies you like an old friend through bitingly funny ‘Exciting Times,’ earning Sally Rooney comparisons
Book review Dawn is breaking in Hong Kong, and Ava is reluctant to emerge from bed.
Low by Jeet Thayil review - a peculiar high
Photograph: Gary Doak/Alamy The work of Jeet Thayil has often been marked by a preoccupation with the dangers and appeal of narcotic oblivion. His first novel, Narcopolis (2012), chronicled life in the opium dens of Mumbai in the 1970s and 80s. His second, The Book of Chocolate Saints (2017), was about a painter who had pursued a perilous life of hedonism to find a sense of creative purity.
Review | In his memoir, Will Self takes his penchant for erratic journeys to the extreme
The British novelist Will Self once wrote that to immerse yourself in the pages of Georges Bataille is to encounter a style so radical as to give the impression that you are drunk at the wheel.
Theft by Luke Brown review - angst in the age of Brexit
Theft by Luke Brown review – angst in the age of Brexit. A man lose his bearings when his sister disappears in the wake of the 2016 referendum Luke Brown is magnetised by the nature of honesty, deception and departures. His first novel, My Biggest Lie, followed the fortunes of a man whose promising life is disrupted by the loss of his job, his girlfriend and his home, and by the subsequent turbulence that those events entail.
Escape from France
When I was about 9 or 10, my great passions in life were dogs, football, books, my grandparents’ farm, and a young man who lived in the house next door. I found him impossibly glamorous.
Review: 'Machines Like Me' - Ian McEwan's foray into artificial intelligence feels false
The novel is addictive and entertaining, but at the same time, there remains something unsatisfying about it Author Ian McEwan tackles artificial intelligence in his latest novel, which is set in a 1980s Britain - but not as we knew it. Photo: Supplied Ian McEwan’s latest novel takes place in London during the 1980s, only this is not the decade as we know it.
I run a Yosemite gift shop. We’re still open, Ann Coulter.
News > Column Sat., Jan. 19, 2019 By Matthew Adams Special to the Washington Post Ann Coulter says she cares more about securing the border than she does about the “Yosemite gift shop being open.” The conservative commentator, in a cable television interview this week about the government shutdown over funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall, lamented the devastating drug epidemic in the United States.
Perspective | I run a Yosemite gift shop. We’re still open, Ann Coulter.
Ann Coulter says she cares more about securing the border than she does about the “Yosemite gift shop being open.” The conservative commentator, in a cable television interview this week about the government shutdown over funding for President Trump’s border wall, lamented the devastating drug epidemic in the United States.
Book review: 'The Hatred of Literature' by William Marx
Literature, in this age, is often regarded as an edifying art. For the British academic and critic John Carey, the written word – whether rendered in poetic or novelistic form – is distinguished from other art forms by virtue of its ability to criticise, moralise, and argue against itself. The American scholar Harold Bloom once argued that it was William Shakespeare who was responsible for making us fully human.
Book review: Turning for Home by Barney Norris filled with tender and plangent observation
Barney Norris is swiftly establishing himself as a determined enlarger of sympathies. His bestselling debut novel, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain (2016), tells the story of five lives – a flower-seller with a sideline in drugs, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower – brought together in the wake of a serious car accident in Salisbury.
A tale of two Dickens
The great Christian chronicler of Victorian destitution was also a ‘wicked man’. Matthews Adams talks to biographer Claire Tomalin about the conflicted life that fed his art On Thursday 8 June 1870, Charles Dickens lay on the floor of his study, unable to move. From this position he uttered what he probably knew would be his final words: “Yes,” he said.
Year in review: Our favourite books of 2017
We asked our reviewers to pick three of their best reads (although some may have gone over the limit), for a list that includes tales about migration, complicated relationships, history and polity. Picking only the three best books is quite an ask, especially when there’s still a pile of 2017 titles that I’m ambitiously hoping to make some headway with before the end of the year. But, since I have to choose, these were among those that stood out.
Book review: Delving into the sad world of W N P Barbellion through his compelling diary
The literature of disappointment is often reckoned to be an enervating art. Dwell on your misfortune, speak of your thwartedness, sing of your misery, and you are likely to cast your reader into the apparent despondency that was your moment of inspiration. Or so such views go. Yet to think this way is to miss the point about misery. The pain of the unfulfilled ambition, of the love unreturned and of the fugitive beauty, comes not from an absence of rapture, but a surfeit of it.
‘My House of Sky’ explores the elusive life and work of ‘The Peregrine’ author J A Baker
In 1966 an obscure figure by the name of John Alec Baker (1926-1987) sent to the offices of a London publisher a 400 page manuscript concerning the nature of an obsession that had taken over his life – an obsession with the life of peregrines. Not, perhaps, an immediately appealing subject.
The mind ironic | New Humanist
“It’s as if the things that appear under his name are in a different kind of print from other people’s - it’s as if everything he writes comes with lights attached.” These words were spoken to me, around this time last year, by Martin Amis. I was in Amis’s company to interview him about his forthcoming novel, Lionel Asbo, and we concluded our conversation by discussing his relationship with Christopher Hitchens, Amis’s oldest and closest friend, and my very slight acquaintance.
Book review: Escape from Baghdad! showcases best of Saad Hossain's imagination
Saad Z Hossain is enraptured by the confluence of polarities: by the meeting of the sacred and the profane, the fantastic and the quotidian, the bewitchingly comic and the arrestingly serious. In his debut novel of 2015, Escape from Baghdad!, these concerns are embraced in order to tell the story of life in Iraq following the military intervention of the United States and its allies.
Kristine Naess’s Only Human delves into female fear and angst on the streets of Oslo
It is an early morning in Oslo and in houses all across the city, televisions bring news of the recent disappearance of a 12-year-old girl by the name of Emilie. A day has passed since she was last seen. Information regarding her whereabouts is scant. It is feared "something gruesome has happened, something out of the ordinary". On street after street, people are "checking the Net more often than usual and turning on the TV to watch the evening news, anxious to hear the latest".
Book review: penguins, potatoes and Ferrero Rocher in Bleaker Island by Nell Stevens
Wanting to be a novelist is among the most ubiquitous aspirations of our time. It is also one of the most pervasively unrealised and routinely dissimulated. Snoop around Twitter, amble through a university, eavesdrop in a café and you will not have snooped, ambled or eavesdropped for long before you encounter somebody talking about the fiction they are writing. The whole world is at it. Or claims to be.
Book review: penguins, potatoes and Ferrero Rocher in Bleaker Island by Nell Stevens
Wanting to be a novelist is among the most ubiquitous aspirations of our time. It is also one of the most pervasively unrealised and routinely dissimulated. Snoop around Twitter, amble through a university, eavesdrop in a café and you will not have snooped, ambled or eavesdropped for long before you encounter somebody talking about the fiction they are writing. The whole world is at it. Or claims to be.
Ernest Hemingway: The man behind the cultivated image of hyper-masculinity
Matthew Adams, Special To The Washington Post "Ernest Hemingway" By Mary V. Dearborn Knopf. 738 pp. $35 Ernest Hemingway is the macho face of 20th-century prose. His birth in 1899 marked the arrival of a man who wanted to dissociate literature from the taint of femininity it had acquired under the influence of Oscar Wilde and align it instead with a kind of hairy masculinity. Lilies and wallpaper were finished. In their place? Blood, battle, sex, hunts, death. Manly things.
Empire: the summer 2017 New Humanist
Out now - how a history of conquest shapes the present The Spring 2017 issue of New Humanist is on sale now! If you live in the UK, subscribe by Thursday 25 May and get two issues for £1. (Overseas customers click here.) A century ago, European empires dominated much of the planet. Gurminder K Bhambra and Charlotte L Riley ask what we can learn from the past. I think Europe is the one part of the world that hasn’t actually decolonised.
Best memoirs to read this month
To reach middle age is usually to have endured a time of crisis. Make it as far your late 30s, your early 40s, and you will almost certainly have been subjected to at least one of life’s great excruciations: poverty, illness, bereavement, parental malfeasance, divorce. These are the lineaments of the thing called experience.When faced with experience, with the disorder and bewilderment of event, we are often visited by a concomitant urge to shape and understand it. How did I get here?
Book review: Hanif Kureishi’s The Nothing proves it’s a man’s world
Hanif Kureishi’s men have long had difficulties with women. And often, as tends to be the way with men, the difficulties have involved their inability to see women as people. They are, rather, objects for men to think about, lay claim to, fetishise, pursue, control and generally get worked-up about. The narrator of Intimacy (1998) informs the reader that "women’s bodies ... are at the centre of everything worth living for".
Book review: Jon McGregor tells a masterful tale in Reservoir 13
When Jon McGregor’s debut novel If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things appeared in 2002, it marked the arrival of a novelist who was determined to awaken in his readers an enhanced apprehension of the wonder of the everyday – of the numberless sounds that constitute the "wordless song" of urban life. Listen carefully to the "low soothing hum of air-conditioners", the book told us, and you will hear something magical: "long breaths layered upon each other, a lullaby hum for tired streets".
Book review: Dominique Goblet’s Pretending is Lying - a rich, twisted family oil painting
In 1995, the Belgian visual artist and graphic novelist Dominique Goblet presented her friend and editor Jean-Christophe Menu with a clutch of pages depicting a series of occurrences from her past. Menu was astonished by what he saw. "The first pages of the first chapter," he recalls, "were as impressive as they were pungent." But he was also troubled. Goblet’s manuscript was daubed with splashes of oil paint that were integral to the telling of her story.
Book review: Delphine de Vigan’s Based on a True Story - when friendship turns sinister
Delphine de Vigan is preoccupied by the nature of literary and autobiographical truth. In Nothing Holds Back the Night (2013), de Vigan offered an apparently factual account of her family history, intertwined with long passages of fictional creation, which then modulated into an ostensibly conventional form of memoir about her mother’s journey to suicide. The book was met with a great deal of acclaim, much critical consternation (was this a novel? a memoir?
Jonathan Swift: Not (entirely) the misanthrope you thought you knew
Matthew Adams, Special to the Washington Post Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel By John Stubbs Norton. 739 pp. $39.95 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is commonly regarded as the towering misanthrope of English letters.
Jonathan Swift: Not (entirely) the misanthrope you thought you knew
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is commonly regarded as the towering misanthrope of English letters.
Book review: Gwendoline Riley’s First Love - a look at the frozen wastes of relationships
Gwendoline Riley is compulsively arrested by familial and affective relationships – by how we manage them, how they shape us, how they involve us in love and its perversion.
Book review: Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream is a tour de force of sublime malevolence
In the early pages of this strange and beautifully arresting novel by the prize-winning Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin, Amanda – the book’s principal narrator lies immobile and dying in a rural hospital ward. "This isn’t normal, David," she says to the boy who may be present at her side. "There’s only darkness, and you’re talking into my ear. I don’t even know if this is really happening." "It’s happening, Amanda", replies David (whose remarks all appear in italics).
Book review: Dana Spiotta’s Innocents and Others - LA women in friendship and rivalry
The American novelist Dana Spiotta is among the great chroniclers of the nature of modern friendship. Her debut work of fiction, Lightning Field (2001), examined the fraught amity of the relationship between an ambitious restaurateur and her friend and employee. Her second, Eat the Document (2006), considered how the bonds of comradeship are experienced by a pair of fugitive radicals in the age of the Vietnam War.
Book review: Margaret Drabble’s The Dark Flood Rises is about staring death in the face
Margaret Drabble’s latest novel is drenched with death: with fear of death, with longing for death, with heroic deaths, with death as a prompt for metaphysical speculation and moral rumination – and with the effects on our natures of the relentless passing of time.
Book review: Swing Time by Zadie Smith - two mixed race girls dance on different paths
Zadie Smith is the great contemporary chronicler of the nature of personal identity. She first visited this subject in her brilliant and exuberant debut novel, White Teeth (2000), and since then she has produced a body of work that is distinguished by its careful, forgiving and unsettlingly insightful considerations of what it means to be a person in a particular time and place.
Book review: the private life of Elena Ferrante
The true identity of the pseudonymous Italian novelist Elena Ferrante has been troubling elements of the literary world since the appearance of her debut novel, Troubling Love, in 1992.
Book review: Elena Ferrante’s Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey reveals her desire for privacy
The true identity of the pseudonymous Italian novelist Elena Ferrante has been troubling elements of the literary world since the appearance of her debut novel, Troubling Love, in 1992.
Book review: Enrique Vila-Matas’s Vampire in Love - monstrous humans and human monsters
The Spanish novelist Enrique Vila-Matas is magnetised by the possibilities of misdirection. Over the past 40 years and more, he has produced a body of work that routinely disrupts and teases the expectations of not just the characters of its pages, but of the readers. He equips both with shreds of certainty, wisps of desire, then sends them spinning into a world of blurred categories, strange tempos, multiplying selves, confused identities.
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