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...start reading these things you begin to appropriate the ideas; they begin to exist less for you as names than as actual ideas. One of the things about American literature is that it’s always been slightly embarrassed by itself. It’s always been a problem that the idea of intellectual work, the idea of reading and writing in particular being real work, is still foreign to American culture. It’s always been a bit of an embarrassment compared to the active, dynamic, business-driven culture. But I don’t feel that...
...just stuck together. We would take back the White House, and the statehouses and city halls and town councils. We’d keep the Congress. And in order to ensure a permanent left majority, Gwyn, we’d have many left-wing babies.” The problem is that while “Literary Men” is a fascinating collection of ideas and insights, it does not satisfy as a novel. It is not that Gessen does not care for his characters or eschews the details of his fictional world (which, as the pictures...
...text message at the start of his new video “Love in This Club.” “Who are you?” he asks earnestly. “Your every desire,” she breathes. Great—the only problem is, she seems to have mastered the art of teleportation. First she’s gyrating on the dance floor. Then she vaporizes, only to appear again with her legs sprawled over his shoulders. With flashing, multicolored lights and cameos from celebrities like Kanye and Diddy, Usher’s task becomes...
...fear of being deported herself. The movie starts to get heavy-handed around the time Mouna arrives at Vale’s apartment. Here the film becomes less about the quiet relationships that develop between characters and more about calling attention to the issue of illegal immigrants. The problem is not that McCarthy’s movie has a message, but that he communicates it in a multitude of tedious ways. When Mouna comments that the detention facility “doesn’t look like a prison,” Vale replies, “I think that?...
...sees the tawdry ceremonies of politics - the spin and hucksterism - as unworthy. He's not one to put on silly hats; his physical disabilities limit his capacity to engage in bowling photo ops. His shtick is substance, the endless access granted to reporters on his bus. The problem for McCain, and the opportunity for Democrats, is that his positions are either unpopular or sketchy. The problem for Democrats is that McCain has the potential to steal, or take the edge off, some of their favorite issues by offering more moderate-seeming, if sometimes totally inadequate, answers...