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...being heralded as the first major feature to examine the personal cost of entanglement with the Stasi. "There has been a tendency to see the former G.D.R. as a state in which no one really suffered and the Stasi was just a laughing matter," says Peter Schneider, a German author and Lola awards jury member. "Now we have the first real attempt to show how the secret service poisoned the lives of millions of citizens." The Lives of Others is part of a wider and growing debate in Germany about the G.D.R. And it is far from one-sided. Some...
...drama "the first battle in America's war against militant Islam," that sounds about right. Guests of the Ayatollah (Atlantic Monthly Press; 680 pages) is his detailed and bleakly compelling account of what the hostages endured during the siege and of the anguish it produced in the U.S. The author of Black Hawk Down, about the 1993 U.S. military mission in Mogadishu that went lethally wrong, Bowden knows something about American misadventures in the wider world. He may not be a policy analyst, but he writes about events in a way that gives a clear picture of both high-level...
Franklin Foer is editor of the New Republic and author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
...rising fast among the girls. Destiny is No. 32, Nevaeh--heaven backwards, which didn't make the list before 2001--ranks 70th, and the U.S. welcomed 2,195 girls named Genesis (No. 155) last year. Such names "are a post-9/11 trend," says Pamela Redmond Satran, co-author of eight baby-name books. "They come from a dual drive for meaning and individuality." And occasionally from movie worship. Satran says the inspiration for Trinity (No. 48 for girls) may be less about Father, Son and Holy Spirit than the butt-kicking heroine of The Matrix...
...Granted, the best thing about a multipart, multi-author film is usually the credits. The various segments don't hang together; often they hang separately. But with its grand theme, Paris, Je t'aime establishes a tone - of love, in bloom or suspended animation - that for the most part is sustained from one segment to the next. This is a dégustation du chef to savor, a tasting menu of cogent attitudes and poignant images...