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...comedy is McDonagh's signature. He can shock an audience into laughing at just about anything (suicide, patricide, terrorism, famine), and his expletive-ridden dialogue - its cadence and Celtic slang borrowed from his Irish background - can make even the most banal comment sound like a punch line. Audiences first fell for McDonagh's gritty, witty brand of theater in 1996, when his first play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane - about the love-hate relationship between a spinster and her domineering mother - won the then 26-year-old a handful of awards and the first of many Tony nominations. Since then...
...months that followed, the Road Hill House murder became a national obsession. It seemed to reveal some sick secret truth lurking in the hushed, upholstered heart of the Victorian household; Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, the first English detective novel, is based on it. The task of solving the crime fell to one Jonathan Whicher, the son of a gardener and one of the original eight London policemen selected to join a new, élite unit of detectives headquartered at Scotland Yard. Kate Summerscale's THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER (Walker; 360 pages) is not just a dark, vicious true-crime...
...romance for the ages: an heiress to the Carnegie fortune and daughter of a yachtsman, socialite Polly Lauder fell in love with boxer Gene Tunney, a heavyweight champion with a taste for classical literature. After a secret courtship, they made national headlines on their engagement in 1928. The couple was married for 50 years, until Gene's death in 1978. Polly Lauder Tunney...
...China's Greater and Lesser Xing'an Mountains, living in hide-covered dwellings called sierranju that are nearly identical to the teepees of North American Great Plains tribes. The Oroqen way of life continued largely unchanged until the middle of the past century, even as China rose and fell under war, revolution and invasion. But the modern world began to encroach with a vengeance after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Two years later, not long after the People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet, Baiyaertu and several other Oroqen leaders negotiated the formation...
That was partly because of the arrival of influences from outside, especially Italy. As his name tells you, El Greco (the Greek) wasn't a product of Spain at all. He was a meteor that fell there. He was born on Crete in 1541 and made his way to Spain, via Venice and Rome, only in 1576. But he spent the remaining 38 years of his life there, mostly in Toledo, and his high-key palette, flickering brushwork and twisted Mannerist figuration were perfectly suited to Spain's militant piety and the strain of Catholic mysticism spreading there through...