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...undone by it. The characters are aware of their compulsions even as they execute them, and, like Keelin as she lives out Aisling's life after her, are doomed to act out roles they have no control over. Martin's characters are fully and enticingly written, emerging from the text like the heroes of an epic poem. Culminating in Aisling herself, who even in childhood seems to be a giantess, the figures spring hyper-real from this surreal journey narrative...
Despite the trend towards slim volumes, there are several hefty tomes in HUP's spring line. This season's list includes a 916-page edition of an Indian text, a 880-page Harvard guide to psychiatry, and a 750-page life of Andre Gide...
...statements reveal much about a classmate's views of a particular problem but they do little to further academic dialogue and can be lethal to informed and penetrating scholarly inquiry. When students simply impose their favored narrow lens upon the subject instead of remarking insightfully about the shared text, they bring discussion to a halt. While lively and penetrating debates can be had about interpretation of the literature or theoretical arguments studied in class, it is nearly impossible to take issue with an X, Y statement, making them somewhat attractive to practitioners but unhelpful to anyone's intellectual growth...
Book and magazine publishers often follow a hypocritical convention of burying the scoop deep in the text--to signal that they're not really about anything so vulgar and transitory as news. Then they launch a publicity barrage, invariably including a press release written in traditional journalistic "pyramid style"--that is, with the scoop on top, where it belongs. ("ALBRIGHT SAYS CLINTON NEVER TOUCHED HER. In her just published memoir, Woman of the World, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright denies reports in former White House press secretary Mike McCurry's recent memoir, The Soul of Discretion, that President Clinton...
Topica hopes to make money mainly through targeted ads. Anyone searching for a list about basenjis, say, might see a dog-food ad. At some point, list "owners" may be given the option of allowing short, targeted text ads to be appended to messages sent to subscribers--in exchange for a percentage of the ad revenue. That sounds tasty...