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Last Chance. TIME art critic Richard Lacayo urges you not to miss the retrospective of sculptor Tara Donovan - recipient of a 2008 MacArthur "genius" grant - at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. She does unexpectedly beautiful things with common objects like plastic soda straws, Styrofoam cups and Scotch tape. Through Jan. 4, 2009. (See TIME's top 10 museum exhibits.) 100 Northern Ave., Boston...
...Shakespeare and Modern Culture”—which is also the name of a course she is currently teaching—is certainly in line with the rest of her oeuvre. Garber says that her objective in focusing her attention on 10 specific plays through critical essays that expound on certain universal themes was to explore the interdependent relationship between Shakespeare and popular culture, especially by tracing the playwright’s influence on society as it develops through the ages. “[This book] covers the two eras that have been most important to my work...
...writer's life as cool and undeluded as Naipaul's former friend Paul Theroux's was rivetingly emotional. Though he remains deeply sympathetic to Pat, who gave herself over without complaint to a man she was convinced was a genius, French is otherwise as plainspoken as his subject: the critic Clive James is "an ill-favoured Australian humorist." Naipaul's second wife Nadira he calls "dyslexic, emotional, fairly scandalous...
...want to be mindful of not swinging 180 degrees in the other direction,” said McGovern, who was a critic of Fowler-Finn...
Erlendur is, in fact, fictional. He's a sullen detective created by Arnaldur Indridason, 47, a former film critic who started writing crime novels a decade ago. Indridason has attracted a huge following in Iceland and increasingly abroad, ever since the German version of Jar City came out in 2003. He's now translated into 36 languages, and has sold more than five million books worldwide. Indridason is currently working on his 10th Erlendur novel. The most recent, Arctic Chill, was published in September. An Icelandic movie of Jar City came out in 2006 and a Hollywood producer has already...