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...McEwan is often hailed as Britain’s greatest living novelist, and in 1998 he received that country’s prestigious Booker Prize for his morality tale Amsterdam. Four years later, McEwan unleashed the large, solid Atonement to extremely positive reviews. His newly-released Saturday is being saluted as the work of a writer in his prime. But is this really the case...
...close to home. Certainly the contented side of the neurosurgeon comes from the man who imagined him. At 56, McEwan swings up and down the stairs of his house with the ease of a man who still does his share of hiking, a passion of his. He has a Booker Prize for his 1998 novel Amsterdam, and several of his novels, including The Comfort of Strangers and Enduring Love, have beenturned into pretty good films. Moreover, judging from his descriptions of Perowne's marital bliss--"What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife"--McEwan...
Drawing a parallel to the ideological split between followers of turn-of-the-century thinkers Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois that reached its apogee during the Civil Rights Movement, Carter said that blacks today face new challenges as socioeconomic, gender, and religious “schisms” within the black community become more apparent...
Peter Carey?author of the novel Oscar and Lucinda, two-time winner of the Booker Prize, all-around intelligent bloke?has lots of thoughtful ideas about modern Japanese culture, almost all of which, he comes to discover, are wrong. He's wrong about the symbolism of his son's favorite anim? series, Mobile Suit Gundam. He's wrong about the artistic motivation behind Japanese sword-making. And he's wrong about the otaku, the ultra-obsessive Japanese fans of everything from manga to pop idols, who turn out to have more dimensions than Carey, an Australian living in New York...
...Booker was sitting in a cell in Oshkosh, Wis., last Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the restrictive guidelines under which he was sentenced are unconstitutional. Even if his sentence is reduced, Booker is still facing some 20 years behind bars. But his case will have an impact on the 60,000 defendants sentenced in federal courts each year, and it calls into question the prison terms of many of the 180,000 people in federal cells--everyone from crack dealers to Martha Stewart...