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The spy novel has a unique literary character. Its first purpose, like that of all fiction, is to entertain. Yet by having as its subject the spy, the man who goes where others do not, it implicitly assumes a secondary responsibility: to inform. A good spy novel allows the reader...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Spy Novel That Doesn’t Thrill | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

Promoted as a suspense-filled thriller about a man chased by atrocious fate, “First Snow” never musters enough strength to hold an audience’s attention. In his directorial debut, Mark Fergus—who was nominated for a screenwriting Oscar for ?...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First Snow | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

Kristen M. Jones ’08 is the director of “Fabulation,” a BlackCAST production beginning its run at the Loeb Experimental Theatre this week. While the show is her directorial debut, the Eliot House philosophy concentrator is all but a stranger to the...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Kristen M. Jones '08 | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

But we also live in a culture in which racially and sexually edgy material is often - legitimately - considered brilliant comment, even art. Last year's most critically praised comedy, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, won Sacha Baron Cohen a Golden Globe for playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Imus Fallout: Who Can Say What? | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

So who gets to say "ho," in an age when Pimp My Ride is an innocent car show and It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp is an Oscar-winning song? As even Essence Carlson, one of the Rutgers students Imus insulted, acknowledged at a press conference, black rap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Imus Fallout: Who Can Say What? | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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