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...gossiping about the case knows the truth of what happened to Chandra Levy. The Washington police say emphatically that Condit is not a suspect in her disappearance. He deserves forbearance. But SOMETHING happened. The case harbors a wicked mystery, like the forbidden room in Bluebeard's castle...
...late to reconsider. Does this Bluebeard's castle of a culture, this cable-ready 24/7 spectacle of the untrammeled Super-Id, which electronically firehoses its children with every vicious fantasy it can conceive, really wish to have its more lurid capital cases turned into media extravaganzas? If the McVeigh execution opens this video window, it will not be closed, and spectacular public executions will become a matter of the First Amendment and the Public's Right to Know. Maybe they...
...SIRENS OF TITAN (1959) SLAPSTICK (1976) DEADEYE DICK (1982) GALAPAGOS (1985) BLUEBEARD...
...such subjects as Joan of Arc, the female form and, most famously, fairy tales. Her 1994 From the Beast to the Blonde was a sort of search for Mother Goose: a look at the (mainly female) tellers of fairy tales that is filled with such tidbits as why Bluebeard's beard was blue--it is the color of both desire and melancholy, "the marvellous and the inexplicable." Now Warner has published a sequel, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 435 pages; $35), about (mainly male) giants, ogres and devils and what they can tell...
According to the foundation's Web site, Tatar, who teaches Literature and Arts A-18, "Fairy Tales, Children's Literature, and the Culture of Childhood," plans to analyze the Bluebeard figure "in folklore, fiction and film noir." Herzfeld will analyze "past and present in modern Rome," and Martin will study "institutional affects on state behavior...