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...placed in her life’s context—that she was a girl who spends her life missing a former flame who once told her, “Don’t watch what you think, watch what you do”—one can understand the crude thoughts as her way of willing him back to her. That craziness also creates some of the most enjoyable parts of the book, as when Olive decides to teach a lesson to her daughter-in-law—whom she describes as “a woman...
...China may have been blocked off during the Beatles, not have been there for New Realism, and then prevented from being part of Pop Art, but that doesn’t mean that they cannot relate to us without essentializing themselves, or conversely, that we cannot understand them outside of those essentializations...
...Save Darfur” T-shirts. But in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s “Senselessness,” genocide—real genocide—is far from this abstract idea; it’s rooted in gritty details. Moya does not try to understand “genocide,” but rather examines the notion of genocide as it exists, filtered through one person’s psyche. The result is a shockingly detailed, brutally credible, and unexpectedly comedic novel. Moya, who was born in Honduras and raised in El Salvador, was exiled because...
...said Frederick.Meanwhile, in the drawing room, Felicity was entertaining Prince Filippo, who had become her most frequent visitor. The Prince’s manners perplexed Felicity—no, mostly it was his Italian accent, which was so thick it was sometimes hard to understand exactly what he was saying.As the Prince discoursed on the contemporary arts, Felicity doodled on one of her tables with a piece of chalk. She hoped the elongated curves she was drawing might inspire the Prince to some course of action.Suddenly he was beside her, taking the piece of chalk from her willing hand...
...respond to Iran's nuclear program. (The U.S. has made clear to the Israelis that getting into a war with Iran is the proverbial bridge too far, and that Washington therefore won't support or enable an Israeli military strike on the Islamic Republic.) But, again, Americans don't understand the Alawites' dark insecurity - and the fact that they will risk war with Israel if they believe their survival requires...