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...began sending his dispatches from Tokyo to the Atlantic Monthly in 1986, his articles revealed a country far different from that portrayed in most other American coverage. He had the ability to take perfect slices of Japanese life -- how the Japanese handle household garbage, for example -- and offer the reader something far more authentic than cliches about geishas and salarymen. Since leaving Asia in 1989, Fallows has often returned to survey the world's most dynamic economic region, and in his new book, Looking at the Sun (Pantheon Books; 517 pages; $25), he demonstrates that his reportorial skills...
...popular music who overreached when he tried to write "serious" scores? A lecherous bisexual who alienated his wife, confounded his children and appalled his friends with his calculated program of artful dissipation? Classical music's shining American champion, familiar to millions from his television proselytizing? By the time the reader finishes slogging through Humphrey Burton's exhaustively researched but strangely noncommittal biography, Leonard Bernstein (Doubleday; 594 pages; $25), he still hasn't got a clue...
...buying. The repellent could have been subject matter, but then only a simpleton would think that Outer Dark (1968) was just about incest or Child of God (1974) just about necrophilia. More likely, the villain was the complexity of language and thought that refused to meet the reader halfway...
...vast, intelligent, unfailingly civilized trilogy about Ireland's struggle to rid itself of English domination. Here as in the earlier novels, The Year of the French and The Tenants of Time, there is a powerful sense that the future is watching over one's shoulder. Unlike the characters, the reader knows that all the heroism and treachery, all the endless talk and rising-of-the-moon balladmaking, will end without result because the English will not be dislodged...
Indeed, "Germinal" real accomplishment is to show that naturalism doesn't translate well into film. When confined within a book, the excesses of naturalist imagery are effective, forcing each reader to envision even the most appalling sights. When overwhelming a movie, this excess--ceaselessly flogging the senses--deadens, and the audience emerges from the darkness of the film to the darkness outside stultified, not enlightened...