With the sensational arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, the rise to prominence of universal jurisdiction over crimes against international law seemed to be assured. The arrest of Pinochet and the ensuing proceedings before the UK courts brought universal jurisdiction into the foreground of the "fight against impunity" and the principle was read as an important complementary mechanism for international justice –one that could offer justice to victims denied an avenu...

Decode the HallwayRosa 'Cazadora' Riviera- Rivera thought high school would be classes, homework, & trying not 2 embarrass herself.She was wrong.Roosevelt High is a city disguised as a school. Every lunch table has borders. Every hallway has politics. Every rumor has a passport.As a freshman navigating Boyle Heights, Rosa quickly learns that surviving high school requires more than good grades. It means reading people....

The House That Raised MeSome houses do not raise daughters.They arrange them.With ribbon at the throat,
law in the posture,
 prayers sharpened into manners,
 & love measured by how quietly
 a child can disappear inside obedience.Josephine Visconti was born beneath painted ancestors, 
silver mirrors, velvet rules,
 & a mother's hand that could tighten silk
 more gently than cruelty ever could.She was taught to sit beautifully,
 speak carefully,
 hunge...

Two of J M Synge’s remarkable plays and an exploration of the man, his work and his life on the Aran IslandsJ M Synge was one of the giants of Irish theatre, and a leading dramatist of the Irish Literary Renaissance. Together with W B Yeats and others, he co-founded Dublin’s famous Abbey Theatre in 1904, and was a director there until his death in 1909. He is best known for his comic masterpiece The Playboy of the Western World, which appears here alongsid...

"The Faith of Men" is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's adventure tales, all of them set in London's favorite milieu -- the Yukon Territory. "A Relic of the Pliocene" concerns a "homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced" hunter named Thomas Stevens and his tracking and eventual killing of a prehistoric mammoth. "A Hyperborean Brew" also concerns Thomas Stevens and his schemes. "In Batard," an evil master makes a monster of an evil dog. Other ...

Brought to you by Penguin.The world of beloved influencer, Gemma Fitzgerald, seems ready to implode when the body of her brother, Max – who disappeared 18 years earlier – is washed up on a beach. Everyone thought Max had taken his own life the night of his twenty-first birthday party, but Gemma knows the truth – she is responsible for Max’s disappearance.With the police bearing down from one side, and her glamorous lifestyle hanging by a thread, it seems th...