a wild day of fun where people shower one another in brightly colored powders
Except the highwayman just so happens to be the King’s own nephew
never stops experimenting
the Gita is not what it seems – it’s not a dialogue between two mythical figures at the dawn of Indian history
welcomes him as a coconspirator who can ease her volatile mother’s terrifying moods
Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Mystery_Gift_Guide a wild day of funA fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism. Publishers Weekly The eighteenth century essays published for the first time in Whos Black and Why? contain a world of ideastheories, inventions, and fantasiesabout what blackness is, and what it means. To read them is to witness European intellectuals, in the age of the Atlantic slave trade, struggling, one after another, to justify atrocity. Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A