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...same technique also allows the fiction reader to inhabit a young girl’s confusion in Henry James’s novel “What Maisie Knew.” The juxtaposition is a touch precious—just a sappy soundtrack away from a literary criticism Hallmark moment—but it plays into Wood’s theory of fiction.If, as Wood suggests, fiction is a space between mimicry and invention, a “house,” then its creation depends on the writer’s ability to construct a framework in which...
...believers: a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, perhaps, or some articulate Episcopalian or Islamist, or comedian and noted Catholic layman Stephen Colbert. Maher seems interested less in conversation than in confrontation, so his movie is less essay than inquisition. Maybe that tone will win Religulous some conversions, but this critic remains a skeptic...
...Senator Charles E. Grassley—Capitol Hill’s most vocal critic of university endowment spending—has repeatedly raised the possibility of requiring college and university endowments to pay out at least 5 percent annually, a standard that now applies to public charities...
...From then until his death some 50 years later, Fingleton was The Don's most trenchant critic. He thought him a "little, churlish man" and accused him of everything from dishonesty to cowardice, not only through his books but in the letters and diaries that make up the Jack Fingleton Papers, stored in 27 boxes at the State Library of New South Wales. These documents, which include chummy correspondence with several Australian Prime Ministers, were a boon for Fingleton's biographer, Sydney journalist Greg Growden, who's written a book that would have Bradman, topical again in the centenary...
...Jeyaretnam, often called J.B.J., gave up life as a high-flying lawyer to become Singapore's most tenacious government critic and, in 1981, the first opposition leader elected to Parliament. The bewhiskered Jeyaretnam served in Parliament from 1981 to '86 and from 1997 to 2001. A fierce advocate for Singapore's disadvantaged, he faced sporadic bankruptcy as a result of defamation suits filed by several Singaporean politicians. Earlier this year, in a return to politics, he helped found the Reform Party and planned to run in the 2011 elections...