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...vaunted New York Times columnist Frank Rich ’71. That could generate some publicity for the book, but Gawker and others will make better sense of lines like, “Fuck you, Dad. I’ve got bigger plans,” and the book??s underlying theme of familial tension.One short, the opener, skewers Abraham during a painfully awkward walk down the mountain after that Biblical tale of paternal betrayal, the Binding of Isaac. But however brilliant the set-up, Rich is most skillful in his dialogue. A jittery Abraham pleads to Isaac...
...readers and viewers of Rhonda Byrne’s “The Secret,” a self-help book/DVD combo that extols the virtues of positive thinking, would say yes. Simon & Schuster recently ordered a reprint of two million copies, as the book??s chipper readers have spread the gospel of optimism at office water coolers throughout the country. The current frenzy erupted after Oprah hosted Byrne and several other self-help savants on her show last month...
Akçam, whose book??s title—“A Shameful Act”—comes from a description of the alleged genocide by Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, cited a number of documents, many from the official Ottoman Archives, that he said explicitly described a systematic plan on the part of Turkey’s ruling party. One document stated, “What we are talking about is the elimination of the Armenians...
...video installation, a female narrator recites his translation of an 18th century novella, “La Petite Maison,” while the screen alternates between scenes of a Chinese woman turning the pages of Mao Tse-Tung’s “Little Red Book?? and slowly rotating 360-degree panoramic views of Rudolph Schindler’s Kings Road House in West Hollywood...
...often, we pigeonhole comic and kid-oriented works into neat and tidy categories, forcing them to conform to the comic book??s stereotypical nerdy, science-fiction minded readership. But when the artists and authors step outside the kiddy confines of the genre, the results can be inspiring...