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(2 of 2) Fred is one of at least four movies this year - the others being Mr. Brooks, You Kill Me and Things We Lost in the Fire - that send the main character to an AA-type addiction meeting. This group here is Siblings Anonymous, and gets a few laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

After ten years of silence, Peter Høeg’s fifth novel “The Quiet Girl” hits Danish and international public alike in the form of a loud and eclectic pseudo-thriller. Labeled as post-modern, magical-realist, social realist, and gothic (to name...

Author: By Anna I. Polonyi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Høeg’s ‘Quiet Girl’ Too Loud | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

Think your family’s messed-up? Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” a timeless story about a wealthy plantation family who gather to celebrate the birthday of their patriarch and compete for inheritance rights, will put your...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lust, Alcoholism, Greed... It's All In The Family | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

Cormac McCarthy is one of America’s greatest storytellers. No author since Steinbeck has been able to illuminate the vast and unfathomable panoramas of the American landscape so well; nor, since Conrad, to locate so adeptly the sinister madness that pervades human culture. The first film adapted from...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Country For Old Men | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

I say 20th-century art; you think Liu Guosong. Okay, so maybe that’s a stretch. Granted, your introduction to modern art course probably didn’t cover contemporary Chinese painters. All the more reason to head to the Sackler Museum and see them for yourself. ?...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Painting China | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

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