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Seven years in the making, “Heligoland” has kept Massive Attack fans waiting a long time. Finally, this British trip-hop duo is releasing their fifth studio album, their first since 2003. Though, in their absence, Massive Attack has been somewhat eclipsed by their contemporaries??most notably the recently-reunited Portishead—“Heligoland” marks a bold resurgence into the musical scene for duo Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall. Massive Attack’s new record is a dark dreamscape, totally engrossing in its vigor, proving that...
...modern literary tradition—in particular, the Lost Generation writers and their contemporaries??has done something curious in romanticizing the throes of alcoholism. Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald were all raging alcoholics and filled their novels with characters who acted likewise. But never before, and rarely today, does a novelist confront addiction so intimately and personally as Jerzy Pilch in his recently translated novel, “The Mighty Angel.”A darkly humorous, yet undeniably serious, look into the life of a repeatedly relapsing alcoholic (also named Jerzy) and his recovering brethren...
...view: “I think Rousseau’s published works come out looking amazingly original and alive,” he says, “because seeing them in their original historical context makes one realize how remarkably he escaped the assumptions that make many of his contemporaries?? work seem dated and conventional.” Be that as it may, Rosseau’s brilliant thoughts are not only amazingly influential—having affected everything from questions of what makes states and institutions legitimate to what form education should take—but still...
Shenk says that even if readers see Lincoln’s contemporaries?? views on mental illness as inferior to modern psychology, “it makes you think that these things are in flux, that our relationship to depression is a relationship of ideas. We’re developing and thinking about these things, and they can shift over time...
...Recent history suggests that human embryonic stem cell research, once it becomes more prevalent, will become almost universally accepted,” he wrote, and compared it to the achievements of other doctors whose work had been considered “sacrilegious” by their contemporaries??such as the development of DNA research, which Summers wrote had been decried at first, but soon became a standard part of medicine and biology...