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...Berlin: City of Stones" ($15.95) by Jason Lutes is a paperback published by Drawn & Quarterly. It can be found at superior comicbook stores, and the Drawn & Quarterly website...
...Berlin: City of Stones," by Jason Lutes This paperback collects the first eight issues of a projected 25-issue series that takes place in Weimar Berlin. If it reaches completion, this will be the longest, most sophisticated work of historical fiction in the medium. Lutes has a natural, clean, European drawing style, much like Hergé's "Tintin." This first volume follows a young woman art student who meets a weary leftist journalist against a background of boiling politics and decadence. Only eight issues in, and already this book has the density of the best novels...
...what do we really know about Kostunica's political aims? And there are problems: the Socialist Party still has a voice in the Yugoslav Parliament, and many of the political and business elite still believe in Milosevic. We should wait and see before we start cheering. MICHAEL PFEIFFER Berlin...
Russia's VLADIMIR KRAMNIK knocked off former mentor GARRY KASPAROV in a stunning upset last week to become the new world champion of chess. Kasparov opened with the "Ruy Lopez," to which Kramnik responded with the impregnable "Berlin Defense," and so on. You get the idea. The important thing is that the new champ, who took home a cool $1.33 million, goes by the handle Supernerd. "He doesn't get involved in politics or business or journalism as Kasparov does," noted chess commentator Danny King. "He does nothing but chess." Kramnik, 25, gave up smoking and lost...
There are mystical and awesome moments in history: days when entire historical streams collide and coalesce into a single pinpoint of collapse. Nov. 9, 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall-the entire Soviet era and the Cold War, crumbling in a hail of concrete. Feb. 3, 1959: The Day the Music Died-the innocence and naivet of early rock 'n roll and the '50s burning up and crashing to earth. These are moments of myth when intangible and supernatural forces reduce to a microcosm, a specific time and place where zeitgeists materialize for an instant before shattering...