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What makes Sendak's book so compelling is its grounding effect: Max has a tantrum and in a flight of fancy visits his wild side, but he is pulled back by a belief in parental love to a supper "still hot," balancing the seesaw of fear and comfort. In expanding the story, Jonze (with co-writer Dave Eggers) invents just enough of Max's home life to convey the forces behind his disobedience. The parents of 9-year-old Max (played by Max Records, whose name and performance suggest he was born for this role) have split...
...films of the great Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki but seem to have been deemed off-limits in America. The beauty of Where the Wild Things Are is that for all its fantastical elements, it's a work of realism, an exploration of mood and emotion. Like Sendak's book, which on initial publication was considered too edgy and creepy by some critics and libraries, the movie is dark, but it is perhaps even more richly cathartic...
...goal was really to increase our chances of meeting Stephenie Meyer one day,” he said. “We really admire her literary prowess. We just hope our book doesn’t offend anyone,” he added wryly...
...Harvard-Yenching Library—the largest university library for East Asian research in the Western World—signed an agreement on Friday with the National Library of China to digitize Harvard’s entire 51,500-volume Chinese rare book collection over the next six years...
...Shotnes points out that the effectiveness of gagging orders has been eroding for years, pointing to the banning of a book called Spycatcher, written by former British secret agent Peter Wright, in Britain in 1985. "The book went on sale in America and in Australia, and everybody was getting their friends to bring books back," he says. "Then it got to the point when you could injunct a newspaper, but you could still read the story about the celebrity on the website of a foreign paper. Now stuff can be communicated left, right and center. Half the people...