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...their early 20s to their early 60s.”IN THE KNOWLiterally around the corner from Picnic, there’s another comics shop with buyers in the same demographic, but they’re often seeking something completely different.If you’re looking for a wide collection of stories from publishers like Marvel and DC—creators of hit movies like “Spider-Man” and “Batman Begins”—then New England Comics is ideal.Larger than Picnic, New England Comics has shelves of individual titles from...
...Grace Paley’s newest and last book, Paley is completely comfortable with her identity and feels free to speak frankly. Written shortly before her death at 84, the collection lays bare all aspects of Paley’s life and concisely presents her thoughts on a wide range of subjects. While some of this subject matter can seem simplistic, Paley’s voice keeps the collection engaging, her personal sensitivity and honesty suffusing everything and unifying the work. She exposes her entire consciousness and lets loose on all manner of topics, including gender, politics, religion, and, ultimately...
...since he did bit parts as a child actor. Li's been making movies nonstop for 26 years. Shouldn't their bodies, let alone their audiences, have given up by now? Steven Seagal made fewer than 20 features. Jean-Claude Van Damme had about a decade's worth of wide releases. Arnold Schwarzenegger managed 20 years of action stardom, and he's considered the gold standard...
...appropriate opening to a speech entitled “Fiction that’s True: Historical Fiction and Anxiety.” Kushner performing Kushner confessed guilt at being an artist—“fooling around in a world of trouble.” But in a wide-ranging discussion on the relationship between art and history, Kushner made his passionate political commitments clear. Art, for Kushner, should always be engaged with “a world of trouble”—and, jokes aside, he’s rarely fooling around. Wearing a shimmering burgundy...
...Obama is his mother's son. In his wide-open rhetoric about what can be instead of what was, you see a hint of his mother's credulity. When Obama gets donations from people who have never believed in politics before, they're responding to his ability-passed down from his mother-to make a powerful argument (that happens to be very liberal) without using a trace of ideology. On a good day, when he figures out how to move a crowd of thousands of people very different from himself, it has something to do with having had a parent...