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...York City-based writer Colin Beavan was casting around for a new book idea a few years ago - and fretting over the state of the planet - when he had an epiphany. He and his family - wife Michelle and baby daughter Isabella - would live for an entire year while making as little impact on the environment as possible. That meant no motorized transportation, no elevators, no nonlocal food, no caffeine and (eventually) no electricity. TIME talked to Colin and Michelle about the new book and documentary on their green year, No Impact Man, and why pulling the plug on modern life...
...drowned while crossing the Jordan. By specifying that fish devoured them both, he illuminates the link between them. Mortality does not leave Hoffmann’s mind for long, but the myriad ways he acknowledges the presence of death give the text sustained gravity without making it oppressive. The book is not suspenseful; lives move in their immutable arcs, but he captures the beautiful intersections of these solitary shapes exquisitely. The temptation to allegorize his story looms as large as the historical-political context contained therein. But Hoffmann’s narrative looks so thoughtfully inward that it seems unjust...
...political disasters of the past and takes a faithfully journalistic approach to exposing capitalism gone corrupt. Volpi asks some ambitious questions, but he does not answer them or even presume to–one wonders why he curtailed his analysis and commentary at this cursory level. While this hefty book disappoints in the context of its wandering, subpar storytelling, Volpi’s prolific ideas and occasional bent for powerful language should not preclude him from meeting more success with his next attempt.—Staff writerMonica S. Liu can be reached at msliu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Jorge Luis Borges or Gabriel García Márquez. A revolutionary and a giant to be sure; but beneath the earth of the legend there was once a man. The latest in a series of impeccable translations by Chris Andrews from New Directions Press, his haunting first book, the crime novel “The Skating Rink,” in turns acknowledges the legend’s humble beginnings and prefigures the heights that he would eventually attain.His career began in earnest in the Mexico City of the early 70s, where he fashioned a small cabal...
...first brought their livestock out to graze. Cox retired this past June after 44 years at the Harvard Divinity School, where his position was the oldest endowed chair in the country, and where he established a reputation as one of the foremost theologians of his time. His first major book, “The Secular City,” sold over a million copies, and his undergraduate course, “Jesus and the Moral Life,” regularly attracted an average enrollment of 800 students in a year, according to Donald R. Cutler, Cox’s agent...