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...great artists as Le Clezio, Béjart and Boulez. Even philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy is a bit famous in the U.S. Maybe Americans cannot cite French authors, but I don't think many French can cite more than three authors who are not thriller or detective-novel writers. There are many interesting original movies, plays, comics and music in France. Anne-Sarah Bouglé, CAEN, FRANCE...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down
...preoccupation with China's tumultuous recent past was foreordained. One of his formative experiences as an author was, after all, ghostwriting a self-criticism for his father, a businessman persecuted during the Red Guards' reign of terror. Qiu says he never set out to write Chinese crime novels. A poet and translator himself - his credits include two books of translated poetry, Treasury of Chinese Love Poems (2003) and Evoking Tang (2007), as well as a volume of his own verse, Lines Around China (2003) - Qiu permanently quit China in 1988 to study at Washington University in St. Louis, a city...
...Mandarin Dress, Chen has retreated further than ever from day-to-day policing, and, perhaps inevitably, the novel's crime plot often gets enjoyably lost in a thicket of Chinese history, literature and food. Yet Qiu also adeptly follows the genre's conventions and, when Inspector Chen's investigation gains momentum, the mystery of the women in the red dresses predictably returns to a buried crime from the Cultural Revolution: the sins of the nation's past revisited upon the present. Already, Qiu says, he's at work on the next novel in the series, which will...
...down by the Nazis, who take a keen interest in his situation and his loneliness. Coppola starts with a number of promising elements. Stylistically, he keeps the film interesting by incorporating vivid scenery—from a gory hospital visit to a whimsical trip to India—with novel approaches to dream sequences, where the shots begin upside-down. Tim Roth offers an impressive portrayal of Dominic as he appears at 70 and at 35. Roth salvages the boring intellectual banter between Dominic’s doubles as best he can, though the scenes drag. However, Coppola?...