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...capsule review of Purple America by Rick Moody (author of The Ice Storm, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie) would seem to condemn it as an example of this type of writing: Billie Raitcliffe has a thing for men who work with radioactivity (personality tic) and a degenerative muscular disease; her husband just left her and she asks her son to euthanize her when her illness gets too severe (societal problem; two, if you count the separation). Hex, her son, has to decide whether he can shoulder the burden of caring for his mother alone (societal problem) even...
...years before her divorce from Prince Charles, Princess Diana had an abortion during an affair with a married London art dealer, according to a new book, "The Real Diana," released Tuesday. In the book, author Lady Colin Campbell says the Princess of Wales became pregnant in 1994 by Oliver Hoare, an art dealer and Middle Eastern expert. Campbell cites one unidentified source: an earl's daughter who was a friend of Diana's. Quoting the friend, Campbell writes that Diana "freaked right out" when she learned she was pregnant by Hoare. "She wanted the baby. 'Suppose it's a girl...
American Tibetan-style Buddhists, however, will have to digest the occultism, interschool feuding and occasional violence that have long marked the culture they thought was their model. Donald S. Lopez Jr., a professor of Buddhist and Tibetan studies and author of an important new book, Prisoners of ShangriLa: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, says the fracas will help Americans realize they "have a bowdlerized version of Tibetan Buddhism." Editor Tworkov goes further. "This allows us as Westerners to ask, How do we bring this tradition into our society and our lives, and what is best left behind in Tibet...
Henry Grunwald, former managing editor of TIME and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., is the author of One Man's America...
IRIS CHANG, best-selling author of The Rape of Nanking, last week challenged Japan's ambassador in Washington to a televised debate. The 30-year-old writer threw down the gauntlet after Ambassador Kunihiko Saito described Chang's book, which chronicles Japanese atrocities in China in the 1930s, as "inaccurate," "distorted" and "erroneous." The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo later said Saito was objecting only to the suggestion that Japan has never apologized for its actions and has tried to keep the incident out of textbooks used by schoolchildren. Saito's attack on Chang has so far drawn fire from only...