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There are, you might say, at least two kinds of Le Carre admirers: the official reader, who turns the pages avidly to follow the byzantine and brilliant interlacing of plots and identities and places; and the covert reader, who reads between the lines for Le Carre's searching and intense examinations into the counterfeit gentleman, and the divided heart of Englishmen. The official reader responds to the master storyteller whose narratives purr by with the smooth whoosh of a Bentley; the secret reader finds him the most interesting English novelist alive for his discussion of the quest for absolutes...
Most books about the nature of the universe leave the reader lost in space. Michael Lemonick understands the problem: how to deal with the immense and the minute on a human scale. His The Light at the Edge of the Universe does just that. By visiting astronomers in remote observatories and at university seminars, Lemonick, who covers such matters for this magazine, conveys both the science and the excitement of a surprisingly seductive subject...
...first appearance of a very good writer, especially the sort of writer who breaks off jagged pieces of his own life and holds them up as fiction, is a tense, edgy pleasure for the reader. How fragile is the fine new talent? How broad and solid? How many fragments remain to be broken off and displayed, and after that, what will be left...
Lauda Air reluctantly agreed to withdraw the offending magazine from circulation, saying that the cartoonist's intention had been misinterpreted. Was the illustration a come-on aimed at pedophiles? Let the reader judge: the ad consisted of a mock postcard. On one side was a drawing of a bare-breasted little girl in a heart-shaped frame with the inscription "From Thailand with Love." The greeting on the back, signed by "Werner, Gunter, Fritzl, Morsel and Joe," read, "Got to close now. The tarts in the Bangkok Baby Club are waiting...
...injuries, all officialdom is uniformly kind and civil) while managing to skewer upper-middle-class denial in the face of shocking events. But the woman's constant tug-of-war between pursuing justice and putting the horror behind her is a painfully real -- and often hopelessly contradictory -- struggle the reader shares at every turn...