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2. THE WORLDLY EXILE.
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KHALIDI, RASHID
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EXILES , *LANDSCAPE assessment , *INTELLECTUALS , *LITERATURE - Abstract
Books & the Arts Seventeen years after his death, Edward Said remains a powerful intellectual presence in academic and public discourse, a fact attested to by the appearance of two important new books. The essay is suffused with a sense of melancholy: The reader knows that in writing about these authors' novels, Said was likely penning an essay that would count among his own final works. Bashir Abu-Manneh's introduction astutely stresses the centrality of politics to Said's criticism and to his entire career - a judgment that is fully borne out by a careful reading of the eight new essays in the Selected Works. The Selected Works and the essays in After Said remind us that it is not enough to produce good ideas and generate critical perspectives today; we must expand the very horizon of our thinking both geographically and morally. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2020
3. WHO GETS TO SAVE THE WORLD?
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HILL, KATHERINE
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ROLE models , *PSYCHOLOGICAL fiction , *LITERATURE - Abstract
And late last year, Margaret Atwood delivered a sequel to her best-known novel, The Handmaid's Tale. The others are new characters, teenagers speaking from somewhere beyond Gilead's reach: Agnes, the daughter of a Sons of Jacob commander, and Daisy, who lives in Atwood's native Canada. She appears again, in far more extreme circumstances, to narrate the Gilead novels: Offred, Lydia, Agnes, and Daisy are four variations on the theme. It's the perfect setup for an examination of female misogyny (and an earlier Atwood novel might have gone there), but The Testaments is more interested in celebrating Lydia's ingenious long con. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2020
4. TAKING SIDES.
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Doherty, Maggie
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AMERICAN novelists , *EARLY memories , *POLITICAL participation , *LITERATURE , *PSYCHOLOGY , *TWENTIETH century - Abstract
The article presents information on writer Mary McCarthy's life and literary contributions including "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood", "The Oasis", and "The Group". Topics include her devotion toward presenting facts and the truth in all her works, her left-wing political views, and connections, and her childhood experiences.
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- 2018
5. Here Comes Everybody.
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MARKOWITZ, MIRIAM
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WOMEN authors , *LITERATURE , *LITERATURE & culture , *PUBLISHING , *INTERNET publishing - Abstract
The article looks at literature, literary culture, and the publishing world, as of 2013. The author cites the group VIDA's statistics on the share of women among the authors of articles, book reviews, and books reviewed in numerous prominent periodicals. She discusses the intersection between publishing trends, including the impact of the Internet on publishing, and the prospects for women authors.
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- 2013
6. Eyes Wide Open.
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FOX, LORNA SCOTT
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NOBEL Prize winners , *WOMEN Nobel Prize winners , *LITERATURE , *LITERARY prizes , *TWENTIETH century ,ROMANIAN history - Abstract
This article presents information about Herta Müller, the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Although she has received many literary awards and has been translated into English, Müller is relatively unknown in the United States and Great Britain. The article presents information about Müller's biographical background and her experience growing up as a member of the German minority living in Romania with parents who were victims of Russia's persecution in Romania. The article notes that the selection of Müller for the Nobel Prize was unusual because of the uncomfortable subject of her works.
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- 2010
7. Goodbye, Columbus?
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Pollitt, Katha
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FAREWELLS , *NATIVE American women , *ANTEBELLUM Period (U.S.) , *LITERATURE - Abstract
COLUMNS So many monuments to racism, slavery, and colonialism have been toppled, removed, or slated for removal in the wake of the George Floyd protests that Wikipedia's army of volunteer editors is keeping a running tally: Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and a slew of other Confederate generals and notable white supremacists and segregationists; Frank Rizzo, the notoriously racist mayor ("Vote white") of Philadelphia; even symbolic figures like the Pioneer and Pioneer Mother, formerly of the University of Oregon in Eugene. That nice Pope Francis thought so well of Father Junípero Serra that he canonized him in 2015, despite Native Americans' objections to Serra's harsh and coercive missionary work. And why did it take the horrible killing of George Floyd and the marching of hundreds of thousands of protesters daily for weeks to achieve what is, after all, a symbolic victory?. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2020
8. Milosevic, Still at War.
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Doder, Dusko
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CRIME , *LITERATURE , *INTERNATIONAL crimes , *WAR - Abstract
The article focuses on the book "Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia" by Louis Sell. It discusses the war crimes trial in The Hague of the former Serbian dictator Slobodan Miloslevic which is not going well. No credible witnesses have come forward to testify against the man who is credited with starting four Balkan wars. Sell is one of those rare anonymous State Department officials who venture to write books in their retirement. He was highly regarded by his superiors and held the rank of political counselor in two major embassies.
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- 2002
9. The Pull of 'New Gravity'
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Mordue, Mark
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AMERICAN journalism , *INTERNET , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article focuses on the new American journalism, with reference to the views of Peter Beinart, editor of "The New Republic." Beinart declared it as the era of the essay--non-reported, non-narrative, political or historical analysis. A radical and disciplined art, new journalism presented a cinematic and psychological rupture. Where new journalism once challenged a homogeneity of opinion, even one of its most extreme practitioners, Hunter S. Thompson, finds a heterogeneity on Internet so repulsive he can't bear it. The language of the Net itself is affecting new books and the audiences who might be reading them.
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- 2002
10. What Spain Interrupted.
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Stavans, Ilan
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MANUSCRIPTS , *LIBRARIES , *HISTORY , *LITERATURE , *ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
This article focuses on the literature of Spain. The image of a lost library, of graphs, codices and, subsequently, alphabetical transcriptions of oral tales, is suitable in the quest to imagine, even partially, the wealth of knowledge and spirituality that the Spaniards sought to dismantle. The past was important for the Nahua and Maya people, among other pre-Hispanics. They fathomed the need to record their inner thoughts, to make "history," to reflect on the nature and impact of human existence.
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- 2001
11. Blowin' in His Own Wind.
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Santoro, Gene
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LITERATURE - Abstract
The article provides information on various literatures on the life of singer Bob Dylan. In the book "Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez-Fariña and Richard Fariña," David Hajdu has written an engrossing page- turner that puts early 1960s Dylan into a pas-de-deuxing foursome with the Baez sisters, Joan and Mimi, and Richard Fariña. The Baez sisters, performers themselves, were romantically as well as creatively entwined with Fariña and Dylan, two ambitious myth-making weirdos who were womanizers, bastards and, in their different ways, trying to create poetry with a backbeat. In the book "Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan," Howard Sounes pieces together testimony and circumstantial evidence into a fairly detailed account of Dylan's wreck. The 1967s docu-drama "Don't Look Back," by D.A. Pennebaker caused a stir mostly because it unveiled another few sides of Dylan.
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- 2001
12. Hollywood's Big Sleep.
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BOOKS , *LITERATURE - Abstract
This article presents information on the book "The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction, 1909-1959," edited by Tom Hiney and Frank MacShane. In his letter to Erle Stanley, Raymond Chandler opines that the reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called "significant literature" will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. He opines that when a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things.
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- 2001
13. The Spanish Mien.
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Stavans, Ilan
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LITERATURE , *LITERARY prizes , *AWARDS , *AUTHORS , *PUBLISHING - Abstract
Famous writer V.S. Pritchett once described Don Quixote as "the novel that killed a country by knocking the heart out of it and extinguishing its belief in itself forever." This is no doubt an incisive statement, and perhaps truthful too. The number of Spanish literary awards has multiplied dramatically in the last couple of decades: Every major publisher has its prize and parades its winners with unrestrained flair. But nobody outside pay attention to these awards. This is not to say that Spain has given up on literature. On the contrary, many thousands of books are published annually at home.
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- 2001
14. New China Hand.
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North, James
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EMPLOYEES , *HUMAN rights , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article focuses on the book "The Chinese," by Jasper Becker. Chinese workingmen and women are dying at a higher rate than their counterparts in Victorian England or turn-of-the-century the U.S. and, until now, the world has been paying little attention. By contrast, when an explosion at a coal mine in Monongah, West Virginia, killed 361 coal miners in 1907, the single largest such accident in our history, the disaster attracted national coverage. Becker's reporting calls into deep question the tenet that increased trade will automatically improve human rights in China.
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- 2001
15. Soul to Seoul.
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di Leonardo, Micaela
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BOOKS , *RACISM , *ETHNOCENTRISM , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article focuses "Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City," by Claire Kim. The Talmudic reading load imposed by a punctilious and politically depressed lefty professor on hapless graduate students is, of course, the least of the burdens of newly enhanced conservative rule. The racial scapegoating story turns out, then, to veil the bitter fruit of deeply entrenched patterns of racial power in contemporary American society. Central to contemporary American racial ordering are the empirically false and mutually interdependent constructs depicting a feckless and violent black and brown urban underclass and a hard working, bootstrapping Asian model minority.
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- 2001
16. After the Renaissance.
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Brown, Kevin
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HISTORIANS , *LITERATURE , *AUTHORS , *AFRICAN American literature - Abstract
The article critically analyses the book "W. E. B. Dubois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963," by David Levering Lewis. In the sweltering August humidity, it was announced that William Edward Burghardt Dubois--National Association for the Advancement of Certain People founding father and "senior intellectual militant of his people"--had died in exile. Poet, short-story writer, essayist and novelist as well as historian, Dubois was by no means master of all the genres he assayed. But he electrified Afro-American literature as writer during the twentieth century's first decade.
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- 2000
17. Riding the Third Wave.
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Jensen, Michelle
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FEMINISM in literature , *LITERATURE , *SOCIAL movements - Abstract
The article focuses on the book "Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future," by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards. The two writers seem to be trying to repress, rather than sharpen, their differences, and this results in a book that is, narratively, both bland and contradictory by turns. The book does supply several potentially powerful correctives to contemporary feminism. Manifesta's restricted focus on liberal feminism is, unfortunately, systemic. In the rest of the book, where Second Wavers provide most of the historical counterpoint, Baumgardner and Richards repeatedly offer up liberal feminists as representative of all feminism.
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- 2000
18. Butler: Is It All Greek?
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Fleischer, Georgette
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ANTIGONE (Mythological character) in literature , *KINSHIP , *LITERATURE , *BOOKS - Abstract
The article focuses on the book "Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death," by Judith Butler. The book is a slender, very well-written that is the published version of the Wellek Library Lectures, Butler gave at the University of California, Irvine, in May 1998. Butler is interested in Antigone as a liminal figure between the family and the state, between life and death but also as a figure, like all her kin, who represents the non-normative family, a set of kinship relations that seems to defy the standard model. From the very beginning of her career, Butler has been on a quest for a theory of the subject that might work for "those who live, or try to live, on the sexual margins."
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- 2000
19. On Shooting at Elephants.
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Leonard, John
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LITERATURE , *AUTHORS , *POETS , *ROCK music - Abstract
The article focuses on two books "Rimbaud," by Graham Robb and "Orwell, Wintry Conscience of a Generation," by Jeffrey Meyers. Robb points Rimbaud's posthumous career as symbolist, surrealist, beat poet, student revolutionary, rock lyricist, gay pioneer and inspired drug-user, as well as an emergency exit from the house of convention for avant-gardes everywhere. Orwell was nervous about women, apparently not much good in bed and would complain in his "Last Literary Notebook" about "their incorrigible dirtiness and untidiness" and "their terrible, devouring sexuality."
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- 2000
20. Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do...
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Edmundson, Mark
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BOOKS & reading , *CRITICISM , *YOUNG adults , *LITERATURE - Abstract
This article critically appraises the book "The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men," by Christina Hoff Sommers. The overt gist of Sommers' book, written in stolid, mass-production-style prose, is that people have begun to think of boyhood as a pathological state. What society once considered a normal part of being a boy-- aggression, energy, noise, restlessness; rampant, crude curiosity--now looks like sick behavior. The current archetypes for boys, the figures that popular culture takes to epitomize being young and male, are the thugs from the Spur Posse in California and the killers at Columbine High.
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- 2000
21. George Smiley, Move Over.
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Dixler, Elsa
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PHYSICISTS , *DEPRESSIONS (Economics) , *BOOKS , *LITERATURE - Abstract
This article discusses the book "Harry Gold: A Novel," by Millicent Dillon. He was self-confessedly the courier who brought to the Russians physicist Klaus Fuchs's reports on the Manhattan Project. The story is that during the Depression first his father and then the character Harry Gold himself lost their jobs. The book opens with a description of Gold's roundabout method of getting on a train from New York's Penn Station to Boston. This sequence is repeated any time Gold must take a trip, only when he goes to visit his family in Philadelphia does he travel directly.
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- 2000
22. Janey Got Her Gun.
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Kimmel, Michael
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CULTURE , *GENDER , *BOOKS , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article focuses on three books. "Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women," by Laura Fairchild Brodie, "The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?," by Stephanie Gutmann, "In Glory's Shadow: Shannon Faulkner, the Citadel and a Changing America," by Catherine Manegold. "In Glory's Shadow," offers an impressionist history of the school and its historical and cultural context as a citadel of Southern honor and male privilege. "The Kinder, Gentler Military," Gutmann argues that the costs of gender integration have been far greater than the benefits.
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- 2000
23. Her Own Lambs and Falcons.
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Fleischer, Georgette
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BIOGRAPHICAL sources , *WOMEN in literature , *WAR , *LITERATURE - Abstract
This article discusses the book "Selected Letters of Rebecca West," Bonnie Kime Scott. This plump selection, sumptuously produced and plushly upholstered with Scott's introduction and notes, is a first edition of which the writer Rebecca West would, have been proud. It is hard to come up with a woman writer of the past century who was more important in this regard. And the ante has been upped in the wake of the recent war in Kosovo. One would hardly exaggerate in describing the "Selected Letters of Rebecca West," as a biography of West and her times in letters.
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- 2000
24. Infinite jest.
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Harris, Elise
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BOOKS , *GENIUS , *LITERATURE , *LANDSCAPES - Abstract
The article focuses on the book "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," by Dave Eggers. This book has been a bit too loudly hyped as an ironic tear-jerker, and a media juggernaut has branded its author a tragic hero. Eggers is a talented writer in the grip of deranged literary celebrity. Reading the book can feel like a goggle-clad virtual-reality experience in which one gets no relief from Eggers's nervous mind. Eggers seems to live behind a pane of glass. His descriptions of the rooms and landscapes, of friends, even of lovers, are bereft of sensuality or physicality.
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- 2000
25. Who owns the fourth estate?
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Romano, Carlin
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JOURNALISM , *LITERATURE , *DEMOCRACY , *EQUALITY - Abstract
This article presents information on the book "What Are Journalists For?," by Jay Rosen. Rosen's book is based on the decade-old movement to encourage citizen consciousness. among mainstream "objective" journalists. Rightly understood as a state of mind rather than a technique or formula, public journalism aims, says Rosen, at enhancing democracy, nourishing public life, aiding in the search for solutions to public problems, changing the reflexive attitudes of the profession. As a real-life movement, public journalism's decade-long track record boasts triumphs and defeats.
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- 2000
26. Living La Vida 'Loca'.
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De Stefano, George
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BOOKS & reading , *POETS , *HUMAN sexuality , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article discusses the book "Eminent Maricones: Arenus, Lorca, Puig, and Me," by Jaime Manrique. Manrique destigmatizes the pejorative and makes the point that the outcast sexuality of his beloved writers is inextricable from their greatness as men and artists. Though Manrique's subjects come to bad ends, lie never depicts them as exemplars of gay victimhood. Manrique brings to their stories a novelist's eye for the telling detail and a poet's gift for metaphor and condensation.
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- 1999
27. It's A Wonderful Life.
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Perez, Gilberto
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LITERATURE , *CRITICISM , *MOTION pictures , *CULTURAL industries , *REALISM in motion pictures , *LITERARY realism - Abstract
It was Havana in the fifties, under the dictator Fulgencio Batista, so it was not the best of times. But it was a good time and place for a kid to become a moviegoer. The first criticism of the arts that seriously engaged the author, even before his teens, was the movie criticism that was appearing in Carteles. Film in the fifties seemed to many an art in decline, if not downright fall. Classic Hollywood was dying, French cinema had mostly succumbed to academicism and the neorealism that had vitalized Italian cinema in the postwar years was passing away tool.
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- 1993
28. On Pens and $words.
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Bellamy, Joe David
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LITERATURE , *INFLUENCE , *CIVILIZATION - Abstract
In this article the author presents his experiences as the director of the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, in the U.S. The author says that at his position he was presumably in a position to do something about what he saw: with government funds allocated for that purpose and through the force of influence and persuasion; with the U.S. Congress and private citizens, who badly needed persuading of the worth of what the endowment was trying to accomplish; with members of the literary community; and with artistic and bureaucratic personnel within the endowment itself. He says that as he began to learn the territory, and especially the relative stature of literature as an art form in comparison to the other art forms within the endowment, and the place that literature has managed to carve out for itself across the land in over two hundred years of American civilization--a mighty small place--he began to feel an overpowering sense of disappointment.
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- 1992
29. Hello, Columbus.
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Sale, Kirkpatrick
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BOOKS , *EXPLORERS , *LITERATURE , *PUBLISHING - Abstract
The level of achievement in the panoply of books on explorer Christopher Columbus, recently published is rather higher than one might expect, assuming that many publishers are simply trying to climb on what they hope will be a profitable celebratory bandwagon. Of course there are trivial books here and a few that would have been better strangled in galleys, but there is a general competence at work. There are several works that justify the conclusion of Columbus scholar Foster Provost that are exciting.
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- 1992
30. Screenplay Culture.
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Cole, Lewis
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SCREENPLAYS , *DRAMA , *MOTION pictures , *PERFORMING arts , *ART , *LITERATURE - Abstract
It is informed that screenplays occupy a position of greater popularity and importance than any other form of creative literature. The preference for the screenplay as a narrative form over the novel or the story partly results from fiduciary concerns, as agents euphemistically put it. A desirable screenplay can earn a lot of money. But money only partly explains the screenplay's surprising ascendance as a literary form. For Americans born after World War II, the movies are the form of art they both know and love best. Only music, in the form of rock and roll, has made as strong an impression on their sensibilities.
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- 1991
31. Manifest Destiny.
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Packer, George
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BOOKS , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article presents information on the books "My Son's Story," by Nadine Gordimer and "Age of Iron," by J.M. Coetzee. The irony is that Gordimer hasn't written a piece of cheap inspiration on behalf of the liberation struggle. My Son's Story presents a flawed hero who ultimately fails and its picture of movement politics is hardly sentimental. In theory, this is a novel of ambiguity; it's supposed to raise questions about conflicting loyalties. It would be dishonest to say that, in the schematic plot outlined above, anything like this actually happens. Even the political thought amounts to not much more than general declarations of sacrifice.
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- 1990
32. Perestroika From Below.
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Astrachan, Anthony
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BOOKS , *LITERATURE , *REFORMS - Abstract
The article presents information about the book "The Awakening of the Soviet Union," by Geoffrey Hosking. The Soviet Union is experiencing one of the great moments of history. Changes there affect politics, economics and the flow of ideas in almost every country in the world. Instead of focusing on the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and reforms identified with him, the author looks at things "from the viewpoint of the society Gorbachev is trying to transform?" Hosking, educator of Russian history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London, goes deep into tradition to explain the futility of looking at official institutions in Russia.
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- 1990
33. An Encyclopedist's Lot.
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Buhle, P.
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ENCYCLOPEDISTS , *LITERATURE , *GEOGRAPHICAL discoveries , *HISTORY , *SCHOLARS - Abstract
The article presents information on the book "Encyclopedia of the American Left." Encyclopedias on all subjects appear by the dozens these days, and most seem to be specialized and academic. The authors had something else in mind, less a final judgment upon the subject than a reflection of the latest phases of exploration and re-evaluation. Unknowingly preparing themselves as encyclopedists, the authors had been making the necessary contacts with future writers and surveying the literature for most of their adult lives. Until the last decade or so, most of the history of the American left had been written from the top down.
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- 1990
34. Consciousness Razing.
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Brown, Wendy
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BOOKS , *FEMINISM , *SOCIALISM , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article presents information on the book "Toward a Feminist Theory of the State," by Catharine MacKinnon. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State is mostly a reshuffling of previous publications on topics ranging from Marxist method to pornography and abortion. The Signs essays are not developed but scattered across various chapters, as is MacKinnon's thesis that the state-actually law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women. By MacKinnon's own account this book has been eighteen years in the making and any work of contemporary social theory written over such an extended period is bound to be marked by discord
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- 1990
35. Cela Vie.
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Ugarte, Michael
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LITERATURE , *RESISTANCE to government , *SPANISH literature , *CIVIL war , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges , *DRAMATISTS - Abstract
Spanish essayist and cultural critic Fernando Diaz-Plaja said that Spaniards are the first to sing the woes of their own country. His judgment was borne out recently at a commemoration of Spanish Civil War exile literature at the University of Maryland, held exactly fifty years after the defeat of the Second Republic in 1939. The disdain was understandable in light of the neglect of exile writers by the Spanish cultural establishment. Jos&eecute; Echegaray, a mediocre playwright, won the Nobel in 1904, when Spanish novelist Benito P&eecute;rez Galdós was alive and considered to be second only to Cervantes he still is. INSET: Cela editions (availability of Cela's works in English)..
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- 1989
36. Hoffman: Citizen Cohn. Zion: The Autobiography of Roy Cohn. King Cohn.
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Sherrill, Robert
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LITERATURE , *COURT personnel ,BIOGRAPHIES - Abstract
The article discusses the book "The Autobiography of Roy Cohn," by Nicholas von Hoffman. It highlights that Roy Cohn did certain things that made him worthy of a historical footnote. In the eighteen months, he served as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel, he contributed to the establishment of loyaltyism and securityism. His role has been overrated because he was adept at publicizing himself. The importance of Roy Cohn's life after a short, wild ride in Washington thirty five years ago was of no significance at all. Cohn lived in a matrix of crime and unethical conduct and derived a significant part of his income from illegal schemes.The questions posed in this article has forced us to think about the judges, lawyers, publishers and writers who were sucking up to Cohn.
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- 1988
37. Patent Medicines.
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Henwood, Doug
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BOOKS , *DEMOCRACY , *SOCIALISM , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article focuses on the book "The Life of the Party," by Robert Kuttner. Democrats can reclaim their lost status as the natural majority party, according to Kuttner, by returning to their populist roots. As Kuttner sees it, a progressive populist program could unite black and white, poor and middle-class, North and South and make the Oval Office safe for Democrats again. This view of a populist Democratic Party as native version of social democracy is sunny, to put it charitably. This system contributed greatly to the high cost of housing, which Kuttner rightly laments.
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- 1987
38. Frozen Music.
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Eisenberg, Evan
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ETHNOLOGY , *BOOKS , *LITERATURE , *PHILOLOGY - Abstract
The article focuses on the book "Chronicle in Stone," by Ismail Kadare. For the young narrator of Kadare's book, the city is not only natural; it is very nearly human. It is the hero of his epic, the Christ of his Passion. In single combat it meets the Greeks, the Italians, the Germans, the rain-maddened river, the wind invading through the mountain passes, and survives. The city is Gjirokaster, founded in the fourth century, nursery of resistance to the Turks in the nineteenth, and birthplace of Kadare in the twentieth.
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- 1987
39. Delirious New York.
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Leonard, John
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BOOKS , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article focuses on two books "The Bonfire of the Vanities," by Tom Wolfe and "In Search of New York. A Special Issue of Dissent," edited by Jim Sleeper. It's odd that Wolfe is so much better than Dissent on the details of class animus. Whereas Dissent can barely bring itself to mention the cops, Wolfe goes underground into the criminal justice system, where the hatred is naked. If Dissent is too polite these days to call anybody an out-and-out racist, Wolfe has been to some fancy dinner parties and taken notes, like Saint-Simon, and bites the hand that scratches his ears, like Truman Capote.
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- 1987
40. A Miller's Tale.
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Lardner, James
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BOOKS , *AUTOBIOGRAPHY , *SOCIALISM , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article focuses on the book "Timebends: A Life," by Arthur Miller. Miller is not what the author would call a representative man of the times, and yet of all the writers of his generation who have given their autobiographies, the author knows of none who has so persuasively captured the political journey from the 1930s to the 1950s and beyond — or who has done a better job of explaining why the early revelation of Marxism's promise took hold so swiftly and completely, why the later revelation of Marxism's actuality was so stubbornly resisted and how both revelations shaped art and life.
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- 1987
41. Pre-Post-Feminists Speak.
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Breines, Wini
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FEMINISM , *WOMEN'S rights , *LITERATURE , *WOMEN - Abstract
The article presents information on the book "The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices From Women's Liberation," edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow. After almost three decades, thirty authors, all early second-wave feminist activists, provide first-person accounts of what it was like to be there, to have participated in creating the women's liberation movement that changed America. These are the memoirs of pioneers. The stories of these mainly white grass- roots radical women organizers and their accomplishments are inspiring. They want readers, especially young women, to understand that the power and effectiveness of the movement had its source in ordinary women working together, that collectivity created the spirit and determination to change their lives.
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- 1999
42. The docudrama that is JFK.
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Holland, Max
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LITERATURE , *GOVERNMENT publications - Abstract
In this article, the author presents information on various literary volumes related to political crimes and offenses. Some of these literary volumes are: "Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board," presented by the U.S. Government Printing Office; "Real Answers: The True Story of the John F. Kennedy Assassination," by Gary Cornwell; "Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK," by Gus Russo; and "No More Silence: An Oral History of the Assassination of President Kennedy," by Larry A. Sneed. The first volume, said above, includes documents the likes of which one seldom sees unless 85 percent of the text has been blacked out, and records so sensitive the government normally neither confirms nor denies their very existence.
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- 1998
43. A Season in Hell.
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Tennenbaum, Silvia
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LITERATURE , *HOLOCAUST & Jewish law , *PUBLISHING , *RELIGIOUS law & legislation , *CIVILIZATION , *COLLEGE teachers - Abstract
It called into question the trust in "civilization" and created a disquietude between Germans and Jews that may take another hundred years to dispel. It is hardly surprising, then, that the Holocaust brought forth a vast outpouring of literature. The victims often clung to hope with a vow to tell the world what went on here. But when liberation arrived at long last, an odd thing happened. In autumn 1995, fifty years after the end of the war, the Aufbau Verlag, a publishing house in what had been the German Democratic Republic, brought out a 1,600-page diary, written between 1933 and 1945 by a professor of Romance languages named Victor Klemperer. It is a day-by-day account of life in Dresden, in the heart of Nazi Germany, by a baptized Jew who managed not only to survive but to outlive the Third Reich.
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- 1998
44. California Screaming.
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Leonard, John
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BOOKS & reading , *FEAR , *CRITICISM , *LITERATURE - Abstract
This article presents a critical appraises the book "Ecology of Fear Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster," by Mike Davis. So dismayed is Davis by the “uniquely explosive mixture of natural hazards and social contradiction in this “Walden Pond on LSD” that he resorts to chaos theory and the prophet Amos. If his magnificent City of Quartz was a cyberpunk vision in a postmodern desert, "Fear" is the return of the repressed as a Big Bang. How well this “Brinks aesthetic” worked is clear from Fear. No sooner had Simi Valley acquitted the cops who rioted all over Rodney than “sentient” buildings with mainframe brains went into Bunker Hill Prevent Mode.
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- 1998
45. A nuclear accounting.
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Uhler, Walter C.
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NUCLEAR weapons , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article focuses on two books "Atomic Audit: The Cost and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940," edited by Stephen I. Schwartz and "The Downsized Warrior, America's Army in Transition," by David McCormick. According to the "Atomic Audit" it was not until the late 1980's that the U.S. government began to pay serious attention to the enormous quantities of dangerous wastes generated as a result of large-scale nuclear weapons production activities. It is the first comprehensive reconstruction of the costs and consequences of America's nuclear weapons programs. "The Downsized Warrior" is not persuasive when it criticizes the poor performance of the U.S. defense department leaders in resisting reductions in force.
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- 1998
46. Telling it on the mountain.
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Cliff, Michelle
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AFRICAN Americans , *SLAVE narratives , *LITERATURE , *HUMANITY - Abstract
This article focuses on the book "Collected Essays and Early Novels & Stories," by James Baldwin. Baldwin's work is infused with a profound tenderness and passion for humanity. Early in his career, Baldwin began creating an African-American literary language that synthesized elements of several African-American art forms. As with nation-language, Baldwin stretched his means of expression across, over and under African-American expression, from music, the blues and especially gospel; from literature, the slave narrative-the origin of black American autobiography-and the sermon.
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- 1998
47. All the president's women.
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Collins, Gail
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BOOKS , *INTERVIEWING , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article focuses on the book "The Dark Side of Camelot," by Seymour Hersh. The book does move the story of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy's era along, but it is best read as a sort of journalistic tragedy. As Hersh himself keeps pointing out in seemingly endless interviews, one cannot blame a reporter for errors he did not include in the published book. But many other stories he comes up with seem equally shaky. To be fair, not all of the sex chapters are as dreary as this one and some of the gossip is pretty juicy.
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- 1997
48. American jitters.
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Leonard, John
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MIRACLES , *OPTICAL illusions , *COLD War, 1945-1991 , *LITERATURE - Abstract
The article discusses the book "Underworld," by Don DeLillo. It's about time DeLillo came up with a miracle, even if what this miracle amounts to is an airborne optical illusion, a conjoining, in the spangled sky above the Bronx, of billboard, commuter train, sunset, orange juice and the Angel Esmeralda. Underworld will spend most of its wasteful cold war also looking for a lost father.
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- 1997
49. Crazy age of reason.
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Leonard, John
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LITERATURE , *MONOPOLISTIC competition , *TRADE regulation , *SCHOLARS - Abstract
The article discusses the book "Mason & Dixon," by Thomas Pynchon. This is the Pynchon who just cannot stop himself, who ups antes and lowers booms. From his omnivorous reading, with his diabolical genius for mimicry, he also re-creates their tumultuous era, an age of reason crazy with divine kingship, chartered monopolies and the trading in human flesh; French Encyclopedias, Royal Society astronomers, genocidal' colonizers, seething religious sects, pornography and revolution.
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- 1997
50. Dharma bum.
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Douglas, Ann
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WAR , *SECONDARY education , *LITERATURE ,BIOGRAPHIES - Abstract
The article discusses the book "Angelheaded Hipster: A Life of Jack Kerouac," by Steve Turner. The Beat movement was about gender bending and sexual deviance as it was, then called. Virtually ignored by important literary critics, Kerouac has long been a magnet to biographers. By his senior year in high school, Kerouac looked to be the hero of a fabulous American success story. After serving sporadically in the Navy and merchant marine in World War II he had serious difficulties with military discipline, Kerouac began to crisscross the country with Cassady, drinking, taking drugs largely Benzedrine, then legal, talking to hundreds of significant strangers and having affairs with many women, including a Mexican migrant worker.
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- 1997
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