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...Majestic party, the French author was at his peak, having just published Sodom and Gomorrah, the startlingly explicit fourth volume of his Remembrance of Things Past. Six months later he would be dead. Davenport-Hines credits Proust, and a discussion of Remembrance of Things Past with a flirtatious male don, for winning him a place at Cambridge. Here he repays the favor with a Proustian portrait of his hero, adding layer upon layer of sometimes miscellaneous information, in vaguely chronological order. Though Proust always insisted his masterwork was not a roman à clef, Davenport-Hines shows the parallels between Proust...
DIED. OCTAVIA BUTLER, 58, novelist who was the first black woman to achieve major success in the white-male-dominated genre of science fiction; of head injuries from a fall; in Seattle, Wash. A loner and self-described "oil-and-water" mix of "ambition, laziness, insecurity [and] certainty," Butler subverted sci-fi stereotypes to tackle issues like racism and poverty in books like Kindred, the tale of a black woman who time-travels back to the antebellum South. In 1995, she became the only sci-fi writer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant...
...after acknowledging that he fabricated a Feb. 28 cover story, according to an editor’s note published on the paper’s website Wednesday night.In the cover story, Sylvester wrote about how New York women are “wising up” to the deceptive male seduction tricks offered in Neil Strauss’ book “The Game.” Now, Sylver stands accused of deception himself.The Voice withdrew the story, “Do You Wanna Kiss Me?” after the weekly said it discovered that Sylvester made up some...
...diffidently presented, should you care to read his remarks, of possible reasons—reasons others have proposed, mind you—for the dearth of women in science. So he’s a misogynist, too! Help! For the record, I’m happily married to my male partner of 25 years. My mom is a professor of chemistry. Neither Dennis, nor my mother the scientist, nor your reporter perceives any bigotry in Larry Summers...
...Emancipation of Mimi” is a really enjoyable album, but if you’re a straight male, you’ll probably want to avoid buying it in your local record shop—the clerks will make fun of you. Better to steal it from your little sister’s collection. Or you can rip my copy—I feel your pain...