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...debut novel, 2000's Bee Season, Myla Goldberg intricately etched four members of a contemporary Jewish family and set them in motion against one another, charting the repercussions of even their subtlest interactions. For her follow-up, the author changes tack completely, striving for the historical epic. In Wickett's Remedy (Doubleday; 336 pages), the travails of Lydia Kilkenny, a young woman from an impoverished Irish Catholic family, are rooted in such global events as World War I and the 1918 flu epidemic that left millions dead...
...weekend of misfortune made the 2005 fall debut of the Harvard men’s golf team—and of Jim Burke, the new head coach as of July 26—a weekend to forget...
...Canto-pop idols who have long dominated the industry. But Chou, who has given hip-hop a Chinese accent, may finally be ready to ascend into their realm of superstardom. Each of his first five albums has gone triple platinum, he blitzed the box office with his summer film debut Initial D and unlike most idols, he can actually write his own music. Chou will be mixing beats and ballads again in his sixth album, which comes out in November. All hail the king. ?By Keane Shum
...Only connect the prose and the passion," wrote British novelist E.M. Forster, "and both will be exalted." Zadie Smith's third novel, On Beauty, does, and they are. Beautifully written, it is - like her debut best seller White Teeth - essentially a story about families, expansive enough to encompass questions of race, Rembrandt, aging gracefully (or not), love, fidelity and, as the title suggests, recognizing what is truly beautiful and how we make it a part of our lives. Smith, as she makes clear in her acknowledgments, is indebted to Forster for more than good advice. On Beauty is a rambunctious...
Usually JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE fends off shutterbugs who trail him and his photogenic girlfriend Cameron Diaz. But in Edison, the former 'N Syncer's feature acting debut, which closes the Toronto International Film Festival this month, he plays a cub reporter who seeks mentorship from a photojournalist, albeit one of a different stripe. MORGAN FREEMAN says his character "was at a lot of the hot spots in the world." (And, no, he doesn't mean nightclubs.) "He's burned out. He's seen a lot of rough stuff." The two actors, both from Memphis, Tenn., got on fine, but the Oscar...