Word: authorly
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This method of telling a story has its sometimes irritating limitations. Irving spends a lot of time describing what his characters do not know; for example, "[Ruth] had no idea that she was not through with him." And the author sometimes overexplains: "Oh, well, Eddie thought as he got off the bus--maybe it was almost Ninety-second Street. (It was Eighty-first.)" But these are the lapses of a generous narrator intent on giving his readers not just incidents but a way of making sense of them. "The grief over lost children never dies," Irving writes near...
Octavio Paz, the Nobel-prizewinning author who died last week, wrote a masterpiece years ago called The Labyrinth of Solitude. The book contained, among other things, a treatise on the dynamics of passionate love: "To realize itself, love must violate the rules of our world. It is scandalous and disorderly, a transgression committed by two stars that break out of their predestined orbits and rush together in the midst of space. The romantic conception of love, which implies a breaking away and a catastrophe, is the only one we know today because everything in our society prevents love from being...
...knows how much it cost Microsoft nemesis Netscape to convince the infamously conservative author of the free-market classic The Antitrust Paradox that Bill Gates is in fact guilty of violating a set of laws that Bork hitherto regarded as contradictory at best and destructive at worst. But as hostilities flare between the software titan and its many foes (the Justice Department, the House and Senate judiciary committees and a flock of state attorneys general are all scrutinizing Microsoft's monopoly power), both sides are hiring whomever it takes to win over public opinion, and price appears...
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...
...When he told the FBI about his theory, they were intrigued, and asked for more. So he began deconstructing the Unabomber's taunting letters to authorities. That's how, a year before former Berkeley math professor Theodore Kaczynski was arrested in the Montana woods, Jones predicted that the Unabomber would have read author Joseph Conrad, would see himself as in "a war to save the world," and would be "an intellectual, a "conservationist," a loner, and possibly a college teacher...