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...color in nature, the show’s examples of fantastical animals and insects (which are rarely spotted outside of a museum), make it well worth the trip up Oxford Street, if only for the opportunity to revisit childhood fantasies of living out “The Jungle Book?? or “The Lion King...
...Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth,” Stoll beseeches his readers to be more economical with their toilet paper use—or something to that effect. Costco, he tells us in the book??s introduction, is a Grand Canyon of superabundance. According to Stoll, it is a tribute to our society’s devotion to the pursuit of economic expansion and the lack of moderation that characterizes that pursuit. His book traces the modern veneration of economic growth back to its intellectual and social...
...encyclopedic knowledge, Vowell keeps her attention fixed on each assassination’s social and political context, all filtered through a self-conscious awareness of the present. Not to mention, it was very funny.“The Wordy Shipmates” takes the most engaging aspects of that book??its dry, biting wit; its playful narrative; and, most importantly, its passion for history—and enriches them. Free from that last book??s novel yet somewhat extraneous framing device, “The Wordy Shipmates” dives right into its historical focus...
...managed in “Atonement,” lack that subtlety of craft, and instead of leaving the characters in uncertainty, it simply leaves them.Whatever the resonance of the ending, the main action is of little value. Roth’s dry style lends itself well to the book??s first few pages, running breezily through Marcus’s perfect life as the perfect son. But as Marcus’s father moves into the background and his anxiety comes to the foreground, each new face is rendered with less and less detail. Characters of significance...
...have any thematic aspirations, except for what appears to be a slavish devotion to Palahniuk’s zero-sum social nihilism and the narcissistic sexual gluttony that hastens in its wake. Whether it’s Gregg’s unsuccessful adaptation of the novel or the book??s basic incompatibility with the screen, many bits of dialogue seem more unimportant than stupid—but not by much. Rockwell plays Victor, a 30-something sex addict who divides his time between his job as an “historical interpreter” at a colonial village...