![]() ![]() Spike was horrible, but he challenged his vampire nature. He’s the ultimate problematic fave with the most fulfilling arc of any character in the Buffyverse. But in his own words, he was also a monster. ![]() Samira Ahmed: In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike was moody, sarcastic, and peroxided. We hope you enjoy this trip down vampire lane! In anticipation of sharing this full collection with you, we’ve asked our contributors to tell us a little about their own vampire touchstones. When we sat down to create this anthology our goal was to give authors an opportunity to begin weaving new stories, to explore the vampire myth using different starting points, to twist and turn and reshape the way these narratives unfold. He’s white, cisgender, hetero, able-bodied, and very likely committed to brooding away the midnight hours. ![]() Yet, for all their narrative flexibility, the stories told again and again place a familiar kind of vampire at the center. More than any other mythical creature they move elegantly between genres from horror to satire to prime-time teen drama. They are at once monstrous and alluring, simultaneously inhuman and achingly, brilliantly more human than anything else. Of all the monsters we’ve met in fiction and folklore, vampires occupy a unique space. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (The EV “high end” keeps getting higher.)The EV story, analysts point out, remains one of net carbon impact. ![]() An editorial in the Los Angeles Times decries a wave of bigger – and bigger-battery – EVs. Those are pricier than EVs like the little Bolt hatchback, which General Motors discontinued in favor of pickups. They’re more resource-intensive, too. The demand side – that is, consumer preferences – plays an important role, too.There are full-size EV pickups that can power homes, and some drivers do need big vehicles. For 2022, the firms involved in the mining and manufacturing for those accounted for 27% of Tesla’s total emissions, reports Quartz.But the supply side isn’t the only thing to consider as we think about EVs and making the future work. And such “Scope 3” emissions – including those of suppliers – represented the deepest part of the product line’s carbon footprint.Batteries are a big factor. But this time, in Tesla’s report, it was part of the tally. What should we make of a recent report from carmaker Tesla reminding us that, even though its cars have no tailpipes, there are significant carbon emissions associated with getting them built and on the road?It’s worth thinking about, though there’s a lot more at play when it comes to electric vehicles and CO2 emissions.The vast network needed to supply raw materials and component parts for EVs makes for difficult accounting. ![]() ![]() Given incentive from school boards, publishers could do as well with primers.' Reacting to this Dr. feature abnormally courteous, unnaturally clean boys and girls.In bookstores, anyone can buy brighter, livelier books featuring strange and wonderful animals and children who behave naturally, i.e., sometimes misbehave. Hersey wrote:- '.In the classroom boys and girls are confronted with books that have insipid illustrations depicting the slicked-up lives of other children. This was known as the'Johnny Can't Read' controversy. In May 1954, Life magazine published a report by John Hersey on illiteracy among school children, which concluded that children were not learning to read because the books that were being offered them were boring. The story behind it is well known but bears retelling. THE CAT IN THE HAT New York, Random House, New York, 1957.ĭr Seuss's breakthrough book. ![]() ![]() She was the winner of the Kompas Best Short Story Award in 2013 and the co-author of horror anthology Kumpulan Budak Setan (The Devil’s Slaves Club, 2010), with Eka Kurniawan and Ugoran Prasad. It will be published by Harvill Secker in February 2020. Epstein, was published by Brow Books (Australia) and Harvill Secker (UK) in 2018. Her debut novel Gentayangan (The Wandering), selected as Tempo Best Literary Work for Prose Fiction in 2017, received the PEN Translates Award from English PEN and the PEN/ Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America. Her short story collection Apple and Knife, translated into English by Stephen J. Both her fiction and academic works explore the intersections between gender and sexuality, culture, and politics. She received her Ph.D from New York University (2014). An Indonesian author and a lecturer in media and film studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. ![]() |