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Will Eisner's last book, The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, (W.W. Norton; 148 pages; $20) arrives in bookstores early next week, just a few months after he died at age 87. A key figure in the development of graphic literature, Eisner worked in "the biz" for over 60 years. He set new standards for the form's possibilities with his cinematic weekly Spirit series during the 1940s, and then again in the late twentieth century, with his tireless boosterism for long-form "graphic novels." His final book combines literary biography and criticism...
...book, Fagin the Jew, took Dickens' famous Oliver Twist character and invented a fuller biography for the character, with the intention of dispelling one of literature's most potent defamatory stereotypes. When I interviewed Eisner about Fagin he described the book as a "polemic." In his acknowledgments to The Plot he uses the word again, but this time it is even more applicable. Carefully researched, with introduction by Umberto Eco, reference notes and an afterward by a professor of political science, The Plot examines the history and hydra-like endurance of a repeatedly confirmed forgery that purports a worldwide Jewish...
...Where the Truth Lies can be quickly dismissed. There's piquancy in the plot (from a Rupert Holmes novel), about a blond corpse discovered in the hotel suite of a comedy team - smooth Vince Collins (Colin Firth) and manic Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) - and the efforts of a young journalist (Alison Lohmann) to solve the case. Such a tale, set in two periods, the glitzy 1950s and shaggy 70s, might have had some period effervescence. But the concoction here is flatter than a long-opened bottle of sham...
...that al-Libbi has been in direct contact with bin Laden and al-Zawahiri and that al-Libbi was the mastermind behind two attempts to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003. U.S. counterterrorism officials told TIME that the CIA suspects al-Libbi was involved in a terrorist plot timed to coincide with last November's U.S. presidential election, including "training and supporting people and planning to send operatives" who could slip into the U.S. "He was a key operations guy," says the source. "His operations weren't confined to Afghanistan or Pakistan but extended into the West...
...Sweet Bird” is by no means Tennessee Williams’s most well-regarded play and, in fact, received deep criticism when it was first produced in 1959 for its slow-moving plot. But Andreadis suggests that its obscurity made “Sweet Bird” an even more attractive production. According to Andreadis, freed from the trappings of fulfilling audience’s preconceived expectations, “Sweet Bird” offers both a greater challenge and opportunity to create an innovative production than Williams’ more well-established productions, like...