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...Each individual top 10 list is like its own steeplechase through the international canon. Look at Michael Chabon's. He heads it up with Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths. (Nice: an undersung masterpiece by a writer's writer.) He follows that up with by Pale Fire by Nabokov at #2. (Hm. Does he really think it's better than Lolita? Really?) Then with number 3 he goes straight off the reservation: Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini. (What? By who?) The whole exercise is an orgy of intellectual second-guessing, which as we all know is infinitely more fun than the first...
...There's plenty of canon fodder on the lists. Zane, who's the books editor at the Raleigh News & Observer, has done a statistical breakdown of the results, so we know, for example, that Shakespeare is the most-represented author (followed by Faulkner, who ties with Henry James; they're followed by a five-way tie, which you can read about for yourself). But I'm more interested in the dark horses, the statistical outliers, which lay bare the secret fetishes and perversions of the literati. Douglas Coupland puts Capote's unfinished Answered Prayers at number one, blowing right...
...1980s, the black-suited gerontocracy still enjoys almost unquestioned influence at home. While you might have heard about the spiky-haired, anime-loving hipsters who are supposedly shaking up Japan, in truth most young people here still dream of joining the ranks of Sony or Canon or Toyota, just like Dad did. And why not? If you work hard enough - which is to say, put in 16-hour days for 30 years or so - you too could earn a place among the elite, eating fugu on the company dime. Being a salaryman is good, but being a salarymaster is better...
...have always been partial to Nikon's DSLRs. This summer, when I studied the market, the Nikons shot better than Olympus' E-Volt line, and were priced comfortably below the equally good Canon Digital Rebel. Nikon's big news this year was the D80, a bit too high-end for beginners. But now the company is addressing beginners directly with the introduction of the $600 D40. The question on the minds of holiday shoppers: how does the new D40 compare to Nikon's current great deal...
...expanding the core along international lines... I do not see why there should be a Core course on Bach, but not on African music.”“Harvard is diverse enough that we can’t get stuck on one canon of music or literature,” says Ndour.Humanities 14, “Existentialism in Literature and Film,” was also approved for credit as a Moral Reasoning Core bypass this semester.The course’s instructor, Professor of Philosophy Sean D. Kelly, says he thought his humanities course was approved...