All posts tagged: Kathryn

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

Published by José Betancourt

It has been more than a decade since Kathryn Stockett’s debut, The Help, sold over ten million copies and turned a Mississippi-born first-time novelist into one of the most-talked-about writers of her generation. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett arrives carrying the weight of all those years of anticipation. Set in Oxford, Mississippi in 1933, the novel braids three women’s lives together against the worst stretch of the Great Depression. There is a cussing eleven-year-old orphan, a chinless small-town spinster, and a desperate mother running on fumes. What pulls them together is part survival, part righteous fury, and part scheme that nobody in their right mind would actually try. Oxford, Mississippi, 1933: A Setting Drawn With Conviction Stockett knows this place. She grew up in Jackson, and the Oxford of The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett feels lived-in rather than researched. The town square has its tinkling bells on drugstore doors. The orphanage has a sign listing every category of girl it refuses to take in, a paragraph that hits like a slap because it …

Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden review – are criminals born or made? | Science and nature books

Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden review – are criminals born or made? | Science and nature books

Published by Sam Flores

In 2021, the psychologist and writer Kathryn Paige Harden co-authored a paper outlining her research into the genetic patterns linked to a higher risk of developing substance abuse problems or engaging in risk-taking behaviour, such as having unprotected sex or committing crime. The paper referred to the genetics of “traits related to self-regulation and addiction”, but Harden thought of herself as studying the genetics of sin. Harden is a professor at the University of Texas and the author of a previous book, The Genetic Lottery, on how our knowledge of genetics should shape our views on meritocracy. She once received a letter from a man who has been in prison since he was 16 for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman. “What would drive a boy to do such a thing?” he asked her. Her new book is a heartfelt, subtly argued response to his question, an attempt to outline how our expanding knowledge of what makes people do bad things – the interplay of our inherited tendencies and our life circumstances – should influence how …

Parents Who Raise Kids Who Make Smart Decisions Later Tend To Teach These 9 Things Early On | Kathryn Brown Ramsperger

Parents Who Raise Kids Who Make Smart Decisions Later Tend To Teach These 9 Things Early On | Kathryn Brown Ramsperger

Published by Jenni Sidey

Imagine your child is applying to colleges. Yes, even if they are small children right now, you can imagine this. What do you want for them at that time? How will you know if they’re making the right decision? Or, perhaps, you can imagine your child got all the way through grad school, but they still don’t have a job. Would you be concerned? What if research encouraged you not to interfere but to support, even when you wonder if they’re ready to fly solo?  Every parent hopes their child will grow into someone who makes good choices, even (and especially) when nobody’s watching. But that kind of judgment doesn’t just show up one day. The parents who seem to get this right and raise solid decision-makers are teaching skills that stick, rather than trying to control every move. Parents who raise kids who make smart decisions later tend to teach these 9 things early: 1. How to find focus Monkey Business Images via Shutterstock Today’s distractions are everywhere. Social media can be persuasive and vicious. John …

Heaven’s Elegist | Kathryn Hughes

Heaven’s Elegist | Kathryn Hughes

Published by José Betancourt

In 1816 the seven-year-old Alfred Tennyson wrote his name on the inside page of his schoolbook: “A. Tennyson, Somersby, in Lincoln, in England, in the World, in the Air, in Space.” It is the sort of thing that children have done for generations, a way of locating a tiny self at the center of a vast and wobbly universe. I did the same thing at that age, writing “K. Hughes, Staplefield, Sussex, England, Great Britain, the World, the Galaxy, the Universe” in my exercise books. This act of cosmic centering was prompted by seeing Neil Armstrong bounce across the moon’s surface in the summer of 1969. Urgent questions had immediately presented themselves: Where did I stand in relation to such bewildering immensity? And, equally perplexing, why was the moon in America? Young Alfred Tennyson grew up in a similarly provincial bit of England, tucked away in his father’s vicarage on a remote part of the east coast of England in a village of fewer than a hundred souls. The little boy’s imaginative mapping of “World,…Air,…Space” …

Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler asked to testify

Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler asked to testify

Published by Sam Flores

FILE PHOTO: White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler listens as President Barack Obama speaks at an installation ceremony for FBI Director James Comey at FBI Headquarters in Washington, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. Charles Dharapak | AP The House committee investigating the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has asked Goldman Sachs‘ top lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, to testify about her interactions with Epstein, her spokeswoman said Tuesday. “Ms. Ruemmler welcomes the opportunity to appear before the Committee,” said Jennifer Connelly, her spokeswoman. “At the time she interacted with Jeffrey Epstein, she was a practicing criminal defense attorney and shared a client with him,” Connelly said. “She has done nothing wrong and had no knowledge of any ongoing criminal activity on his part.” The House Oversight Committee’s request that Ruemmler voluntarily appear before the panel comes nearly three weeks after she said she would leave Goldman Sachs at the end of June. Ruemmler’s announcement came after a wave of new media coverage focused on her often-friendly email exchanges with Epstein. Read more CNBC politics coverage Earlier Tuesday, Commerce Secretary …

Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler asked to testify

Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler to step down

Published by Sam Flores

FILE PHOTO: White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler listens as President Barack Obama speaks at an installation ceremony for FBI Director James Comey at FBI Headquarters in Washington, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. Charles Dharapak | AP Top Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler said Thursday night that she will leave the investment bank at the end of June, a decision that came after a flurry of news articles highlighting documents detailing the former White House counsel’s often chummy email conversations with the notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. Goldman, for months, has defended Ruemmler after Congress and then the Department of Justice released emails between her and Epstein, as well as other documents related to investigations of him. Ruemmler, who has been a key advisor to Goldman CEO David Solomon since joining the bank in 2020, told The Financial Times on Thursday, “I made the determination that the media attention on me, relating to my prior work as a defence attorney, was becoming a distraction.” The FT first reported the 54-year-old’s decision to leave Goldman. “Since I joined …

James Cameron weighs in on controversial ending to ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film

James Cameron weighs in on controversial ending to ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter James Cameron has delivered his verdict on the divisive ending to his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow’s Netflix movie A House of Dynamite. The film, which follows the minutes after a nuclear missile has been launched at the United States, was generally praised by critics with The Independent awarding it four stars. *Warning — Spoilers ahead for A House of Dynamite* However some viewers found the ending underwhelming, as the movie concludes ambiguously. The audience never learns whether the president (played by Idris Elba) has decided to let the missile hit Chicago in order to avoid a full-scale war or has chosen to retaliate. The actual impact of the missile is never shown. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cameron said he recently had dinner with Bigelow and told her he loved the ending. James Cameron has delivered his verdict on …