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My Sister in This House by Wendy Kesselman had its genesis in a famous French murder case that inspired Jean Genet's The Maids. In 1933, in Le Mans, Léa and Christine Papin killed their employer, Mme. Lancelin, and her daughter. Kesselman has retained the names of...
And Kate is skeptical, impatient, ambitious and confident: she seems the perfect antagonist for the institution she takes on in this, the sixth Cross book. The Harvard that appears in Death in a Tenured Position is big, smug, successful and emphatically male--a sort of hybrid of the oracle of...
When his birthday rolls around, Theodor Seuss Geisel usually hides out in Las Vegas to avoid being "smothered with love." Rather Grinch-like behavior for the author adored by children the world over as Dr. Seuss, but better than facing truckloads of treacly fan mail and thousands of pint-size...
Simon doesn't come out and say he's talking about affirmative action, of course. Otherwise, he might lose the affection and patronage of most older people. They go to the theater not to hear about issues like court-ordered desegregation, but to escape as simply as possible. Simon thus...
DURING THE great schism in French cinema many years ago, when the New Wave reared its vicious little head, Francois Truffaut emerged on the side of the angels. A sentimentalist and romantic, Truffaut seemed to lose any grittiness he once had. The tough but compassionate voyeur lost the harsh edges...