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While Eugenides’ characters in successive novels remain in youth—from boys dealing with a town tragedy in “The Virgin Suicides,” to Cal coming of age in the flux of 20th century America, and to college students studying semantic theory while carrying on a passionate affair on the side—he continues to be surprised about how much can remember from his own recent past...
...album’s 14-minute long closing song, “The Battle of Hampton Road,” is named after the Civil War clash between the Monitor and the Merrimack, but actually it focuses mainly on 20th Century concerns. Sickles proclaims “I’m destroying everything that would make me like Bruce Springsteen / So I’m going back to New Jersey / I do believe they’ve had enough of me.” By directly disavowing this connection, Titus Andronicus only strengthen it, making this album a statement about...
...world can adjust its expectations accordingly. If it is, then Europeans can start the real work of public diplomacy, speaking out for their asserted virtues of tolerance, compromise and liberality, not in a condescending way, but in one that explains how the world's true dark continent in the 20th century found a path to peace. And the E.U. could work harder to ease tensions in its sphere of interest - ensuring that Bosnia does not slip back into conflict, working closely with Turkey to ensure its enormous potential for encouraging a new prosperity to Europe's East is realized, reaching...
...story is that of Miss Gilby, a peripheral character in Rabindranath Tagore's novel The Home and the World, whose life Ritwik reimagines in a book he is writing. He uses the story of Gilby, a middle-aged English governess to the family of a progressive official in early 20th century India, to revisit his country through the detached perspective of a foreigner. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...There is more than historical curiosity behind these new efforts. For centuries after his expeditions, Zheng - a Muslim eunuch - slipped out of public awareness, obscured by the rise and fall of new dynasties. Talk of his exploits was revived briefly at the beginning of the 20th century as the fledgling Chinese republic sought to build a navy in the shadow of imperial Japan. But experts say his place as a patriotic national hero has been truly cemented only in the past two decades, parallel with China's geopolitical rise - and the growth of its significant economic presence in many African...