Word: obsessionals
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Contemporary English fiction is becoming incestuous. The intricate, clever construction of Black Dogs calls to mind works like Martin Amis' Time's Arrow, which is written backwards. The form of the novel clearly betrays the influence of Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot, in which a literary scholar hides from the...
Situated among the rolling hills of southwestern Ohio, Montgomery County is an uncanny microcosm of the rest of the U.S., right down to the renewed obsession with trolls. Last September TIME profiled the region when it was targeted by both the Clinton and Bush campaigns as a critical swing county...
Most of us will spend the majority of our lives married, but there's a certain obsession with finding long-term relationships. Unfortunately, though providing an excellent sense of security, they aren't something someone can go around looking for. We often forget that long-term relationships are simply short...
Worse still, this obsession with appearance makes it especially hard to get to know Harvard women. Many raise their guards around all men, large and small. I'm not dumb--I know there are reasons for this. Some men deliberately try to take advantage of women. And men can be...
BUT CYBERSPACE IS MORE THAN A PLAYGROUND for hacker high jinks. What cyberpunks have known for some time -- and what 17.5 million modem-equipped computer users around the world have discovered -- is that cyberspace is also a new medium. Every night on Prodigy, CompuServe, GEnie and thousands of smaller computer...