In the pages that follow, the search for answers is one of many cohesive elements that make this nonfiction anthology one of the best true crime books of the year. We wish for justice, but even when we get it, the result rings somewhat hollow." "The fascination with murder and illegality is a perennial one, because the shock of the deed creates a schism between order and chaos. That Unspeakable Acts is more than a collection of true crime stories is clear from the introduction, where Weinman states: Those looking for titillating, gruesome chronicles of human depravity will find much to like here-and those who want great, smart writing and outstanding research that unveils things we would rather not look at under a microscope will be equally satisfied. 'Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession,' edited by Sarah Weinman. Unspeakable Acts, edited by author, editor and critic Sarah Weinman, works as both a superb collection of true crime writing and a text that looks at the nuances of our collective obsession with horrific murders, con men and serial killers in a historical and cultural context.
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Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. Gottlieb describes how these two "staccato bursts"-each one only lasting for 150 years-contained the essence of two and a half millennia of Western philosophy. In The Dream of Enlightenment, Gottlieb describes the second "burst" starting with René Descartes, then Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Gottfried Leibniz, David Hume, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the philosophes. In his 2000 publication, The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, Gottlieb described the first of two explosions of thought that contributed to western philosophical traditions-starting with the Athenian philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The book is the second volume in a series of three written as an introduction to Western philosophy for a broad audience. It is a sequel to his 2001 nonfiction, The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance. The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy is a 2016 nonfiction book by Anthony Gottlieb, a former editor of The Economist. |