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A tragicomic ensemble story about a combustible family, The Corrections ($26; 568 pages) has the absorbing treacheries of married life, the comic squalors of cruise-ship travel and the shenanigans of global capitalism. It also has language that builds in powerful, rolling strides. And it has characters, the separately unraveling...
Should Chang's entire thesis be discarded? Maybe not. As Sidney Webb, a Fabian Society co-founder, once said: economists are "generally right in their predictions, but generally a good deal out on their dates." China's command capitalism is currently a mess, and repeated failures to sort it out...
SHENYANG, China—The statue of Chairman Mao in Shenyang rises three or four stories to survey Zhongshan Square, without a doubt cutting a more imposing figure than any Mercedes-chauffeured communist official or donkey-cart-driving farmer in this provincial capital of 7 million. Clad in an overcoat...
Colaninno looked as if he was making history when he launched his hostile takeover of Telecom, then the largest such deal in Europe. While not unknown in Italian business circles, he had neither the clout nor the name of the man he had replaced at Olivetti, Carlo De Benedetti. But...
When John and Paul were heavy-handedly questioning radicalism in “Revolution,” George was quietly reflective: “I look at the world, and I notice it’s turning, while my guitar gently weeps.” While Lennon read a book...