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...issue from both points of views, simultaneously. “Generosity” thereby succeeds in engaging its scientific subject matter honestly, and therefore that much more significantly. It is this respect for—but distance from—the science that allows Powers to arrive at the book??s core issue: Genetic engineering, for all the moral qualms that arise from it, gives humanity a chance to rewrite, to edit, to choose its own genetic story.This is the central idea behind the novel, and “Generosity” explores it in endless, and often...
...arrival of characters from “Oryx and Crake,” the trilogy’s first, that make the situation especially untenable. All at once, too many characters are butting up against each other in the post-apocalyptic desert. This may be a blow to the book??s faint cautionary undertones. For a novel about a plague that kills off our depraved progeny, “The Year of the Flood” is too colorful and too absurd to carry weight as a warning. The soft cries of distress “We?...
...attempt to assist a contemporary wave of thinking about Islamic culture. The event consisted of two sections: a presentation about the content of Cainkar’s book and a discussion with the audience. The presentation provided analysis and evaluation based on Cainkar’s book??“the first in-depth post 9/11 survey,” according to Cesari. Cainkar spoke on her methodology, having interviewed 102 Muslims in the suburban and metropolitan Chicago area after the incident as part of her research. According to Cainkar’s findings...
...given the extent to which the detective genre informs novels like “V.,” “The Crying of Lot 49,” and “Gravity’s Rainbow,” and the somehow hypnotic quality of even the book??s mangiest sections, it’s clear that Pynchon retains a deep affection for the genre even now. Similarly, his novels have always dabbled heavily in references to the pulp novel’s cultural siblings—rock music and monster movies—so, despite...
...because saying it once could not possibly capture what he could mean, what he profoundly, obsessively believes, Vollmann writes it again and again—sometimes in those exact words, sometimes in others—over the 1,344-page opus that is his latest book. Imperial, the book??s titular county, is at the very southern tip of California—though its presence is so immeasurable that Vollmann spends several sections trying to define what his Imperial actually encompasses. Vollmann produces a work similar in many ways to his subject: vast, intimidating, confusing to navigate...