In parenting blogs and books, the school-bus stop itself is shorthand for the turmoil of contemporary parents over when to relinquish control.
(Bloomsbury, $14.95.) A bitingly funny portrait of a contemporary English family in turmoil, Cartwright's novel is set in motion when the family's linchpin — the eldest daughter, Juliet — is released after two years in an American prison for fencing a Tiffany window.
On the other side are many, Roman Catholic or not, who feel that a great deal of the turmoil in contemporary Catholicism has resulted from the chill that the anti-modernist campaign cast for decades on the church's intellectual life — and the consequent rush to confront questions that had been shunted aside for too long.
The relationship between the rioters and the press was examined in Generation X, an influential piece of youth sociology by Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson − published in 1964 to capitalise on the apparent turmoil of contemporary youth.
From Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, "The Scarlet Letter," to Elizabeth Gilbert's more contemporary, "Eat, Pray, Love," marital turmoil, divorce, and the drama that ensues certainly makes for good reading.
Throughout the 1990's, a time when Russian culture, society and politics were in turmoil, Russian directors largely ignored contemporary plays and retreated to the stability and familiarity of the classics.
Even installed in the capital, Mary was never so remote from the turmoil of the Civil War as her contemporaries imagined.
From mass surveillance to the migration crisis, anxiety about a world in political turmoil permeated this year's Art Basel, the world's largest contemporary and modern art fair in Switzerland.
The theological apology for this experience was given by Gregory's contemporary St. Gregory Palamas of Mt. Athos in the religious political turmoil raging during the mid-14th century.
