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The once flashy city has become drab. The grass and trees, marinated for weeks in saltwater, are a dreary gray-brown. Parking lots look like drought-starved lake beds, with cracks in the mud. Within a few hours, anyone working outside is covered in a fine layer of grit. The...
In Japan, however, sumo is not just a sport but also a revered institution, an intrinsic part of the national genome. A number of its esoteric rituals are rooted in Shinto, the native animist religion, and its training emphasizes ancient Japanese virtues, such as duty, fortitude and respect for elders...
...hidden in the bush, machete in his hand, insects crawling slowly across his exposed flesh, is waiting for the order to kill. “You want to be a soldier enh? Well—kill him. KILL HIM NOW!”This sort of guttural visceral action characterizes the majority of Uzodinma Iweala ’04’s “Beasts of No Nation”; the rapturously reviewed debut novel is the story of Agu, a child soldier in an unnamed African country. “Beasts” was originally written...
Witherspoon has been pinwheeling this spunky charm for ages. Phoenix's triumph is even more substantial. Though his singing voice (he and Witherspoon do their own vocals) can't approach Cash in its lonesome depths, he has the gift of finding a home in this troubled mind, of moving in...
Last week’s episode of “The OC” opened with a (gasp) metaphor. Has the show achieved literary merit? Mmm, sort of. Marissa Cooper recounted—via nightmare—her shooting of Trey, Ryan’s brother, in last spring?...