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...does the writer of personal narrative pull from his or her own boring, agitated self the truth speaker who will tell the story that needs to be told?” This is the fundamental question that essayist and critic Vivian Gornick sets out to answer in her new book The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative. Inspired by 15 years of teaching personal nonfiction writing in Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs, Gornick skillfully combines her own insight and experience from 30 years as a writer with models of nonfiction writing from some of the best...
...Instead of standing around complaining that the federal government should do more, why aren't the best minds in the business thinking about what these huge private companies could do?," asks one industry critic. Why is it, for example, that no other airline has put its own security personnel on planes...
People here at TIME, like most people in the news business, are obsessed with originality. We'd murder to find something "fresh" to write about. So it's admittedly a bit odd that we chose Andy Delbanco as America's best social critic. He is a historian of American literature, a man who looks back for a living, who reads and rereads, even in middle age, books like Moby-Dick and poems by Walt Whitman, stuff most of us leave behind after 11th grade...
Have you ever tried to start a bar brawl over who America's best social critic might be? Unless you're drinking at George Plimpton's, it's impossible. Perhaps that's why we decided to test your taste for controversy with our choice for America's Best Athlete. Still: Allen Iverson is the nation's paragon of athletic skill? Really...
...DIED. PAULINE KAEL, 82, acerbic and amusing film critic whose conversational commentaries were feared by directors, revered by readers and changed the landscape of movie criticism; in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Kael didn't begin writing reviews until aged 35, but quickly gained a following and was hired by The New Yorker magazine in 1968 where she would reign for more than 20 years. DIED. JIM ROHWER, 52, respected commentator on the Asian economy; in a boating accident, in France. A Hong Kong-based senior writer for Fortune, Rohwer authored the 1995 book Asia Rising, which became the definitive take...