Word: clicheed
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And what of the crities? "I would say they are a necessary evil," he said laughingly. "There must be crities because if not, every man with talent or without talent would publish books; and it would be casier to fool the reader than it is today. The only trouble is...
The past still pervades Japan, hut it does not crimp its future. Already, the heirs presumptive to the 21st century own a big share of the 20th. A human cliche everywhere is the bespectacled Japanese salesman, quick to bow, to smile and, after consulting his pocket dictionary and his neatly...
Most of Boll's early stories, now published in English for the first time, concern soldiers and civilians confronting war and its immediate aftermath. They deal with the experiences of soldiers that now seem literarily familiar: drinking together before death; discovering love with an unknown girl; revealing the news...
Next Time might best be titled Weding for Waiting for Godot. Whereas in Beeken's master-piece we live through the plight of human beings waiting for that never-to-arrive something that will make sense of it all, in Saunders' play we merely hear the playwright's mouthpieces talk...
Womb and Grave. The remark is cryptic but not gratuitous. For the success of Searchers is a fine balance between observed fact and unobtrusive metaphor. The insatiable giant cod who cruises through Russell's pages not only passes ichthyological muster, but its instinctive cunning suggests a primitive form of...