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...than men. She tantalizingly stops short of saying how they may differ, so part of the book's pleasure comes from thinking about this idea. A superficial flip-though won't provide an answer. The 23 contributions cross boundaries of tone, subject and style. Leela Corman's emotionally raw tenement story of a young girl facing the mysteries of womanhood looks almost like a child's therapy comic. Eleanor Davis' "The Bird Eater," rendered in a style reminiscent of Aesop's fable woodcuts, tells a strange parable of a monster that terrorizes a community of tree-dwelling gnomes. Non-fiction...
...GRENADE WAS VISIBLE WHEN THE INSURGENT STEPPED IN FRONT of our car. His sinewy arm was cocked, ready to throw. Fifteen more men poured out from the corner of a nearby tenement, swirling about the car like angry floodwaters. They brandished grenades and AK-47s, pistol grips nudging out from under the folds of their shirts. Spotting me in the backseat, they went into a frenzy, yanking on the handles of the doors, thumping the window with the grenades. Across Iraq, the insurgents have gone on a kidnapping spree, seizing Italian aid workers, French journalists and American construction workers...
...Back in 1959 Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun became the first play by a black woman--amazing to think now--ever to open on Broadway. It was a breakthrough in subject matter too, focusing on the struggles of a poor black family in a Chicago tenement at the dawn of the civil rights era. The revival of A Raisin in the Sun that opened last week on Broadway is groundbreaking in a way more suited to our times. It stars a hip-hop impresario with scant acting experience, making his Broadway debut: Sean (P. Diddy) Combs...
...city like New York holds a lot of garbage, and a few secrets. In 1968 two children chanced upon a corpse in an abandoned Greenwich Village tenement. The body was buried as John Doe in a pauper?s grave. A year later, fingerprint tests revealed the man?s identity: Bobby Driscoll, dead at 31 of a drug overdose...
...estranged family. When April discovers her oven has conked out, she is forced to ask her isolationist odd-ball neighbors if she can use theirs. (Her request is granted by an entertaining Sean Hayes of “Will and Grace” as Wayne, the talk of the tenement because of his new fangled convection oven). Meanwhile, three generations of the peculiar Burns family pile into an aging station wagon and slowly and uncertainly make their way to the apartment of their estranged sister, daughter and granddaughter. Along the comic journey, we get to know Joy (played...