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...passing glance, the novel has all the trappings of a small joke told at the expense of a literary world that rushed to canonize Johnson in the wake of “Tree of Smoke.” A closer look, however, raises the question of whether the author had humor or self-sabotage on his mind. “Nobody Move” is the gravitational inverse to a novel like “Tree of Smoke”: a breezy, barely-there venture into the heyday of pulp fiction. The concept actually has a good deal of promise...
...that because the provincial governments and a majority of municipal ones remain in the hands of the PNV, the change in government will have little impact. "Look, it's important that the PNV has been substituted, it's a sign of the health of our democracy" says Carmen Gurruchaga, author of several books on Basque nationalism. "But it's window-dressing. All the real power - which is to say the economic power - is still with...
...second priority. "Yes, we have to check and coordinate information, but this does not mean we can justify not being on time." But with violence worse than ever and elections scheduled for late August, words are getting cheaper. "Ultimately," says Joanna Nathan, a Kabul-based analyst and author of the Crisis Group report, "cleaning up the government and proving that life is better is more important than talking about...
...political performance art," one California psychologist said of the nearly 300 fasts he's staged. But for desperate people like Saberi, it's much more than that. As Sharman Apt Russell, author of Hunger: An Unnatural History, wrote, "What else can the powerless, the weak and disenfranchised offer up to the world but their own soft bodies...
Other researchers also seemed to puzzle the Dalai Lama. Conference organizer Christopher Germer, author of the forthcoming book The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself From Destructive Thoughts and Emotions, asked His Holiness whether he would "lead us in a brief meditation that the therapists in this room could practice at home to cultivate compassion for themselves as well as for their patients." The Dalai Lama shot him a skeptical look that got everyone laughing. He was sweet about it, but meditation isn't a "brief" trick...