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...this week's TIME magazine, book critic Lev Grossman writes about the under-40 generation of American novelists. Here are eight novels from those authors that have drawn acclaim in the past few years. Which one do you think is most likely to become a classic...
...first stage play—“Forty Years On”—debuted back the revolutionary days of ‘68. However, various critics have considered his recent take on elite schools and education the pinnacle of his career. Judging by the widespread acclaim and the myriad of Tony awards received a couple of weeks ago, they are spot...
INDUCTED. Assia Djebar, 69, Algerian writer and filmmaker, into the ?lite Acad?mie fran?aise, its first member from France's former North African colonies; in Paris. In a writing career spanning half a century, Djebar has won acclaim for tackling difficulties faced by women in Muslim societies. Currently a professor of French literature at New York University, Djebar becomes one of only 40 "immortals," as the Acad?mie's members are known...
...reporting, including Zawahiri's decision to halt the attack. A former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Suskind is also the author of the 2004 book The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, which won acclaim as one of the first bare-knuckle accounts of the Bush administration's preoccupation with Saddam and its disdain for independent thinking by Cabinet members...
...beneath the surface of Jeb's solid approval ratings lies another consideration. For all the acclaim he gets in conservative circles, there are still questions as to whether his record in Florida - which in reality has been a cycle of sunshine and tropical depressions, from pioneering accomplishments like Medicaid reform to embarrassing debacles like the Terri Schiavo spectacle - could survive the brutal scrutiny of a White House campaign...