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...CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, by Mark Haddon (Doubleday; 226 pages...
...family more intimately than he at first supposes--we gradually learn what it's like to dwell in the mind of a child with a photographic memory, who knows every prime number up to 7,057, but who can't understand what a hypothetical question is. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is funny, sad and totally convincing. But is it a mystery novel at all? Or a meta-mystery? Or something entirely new? That itself is a mystery--and worth investigating...
...Staples wall clock plays a curious role in the new film Dirty Pretty Things, a thriller starring Audrey Tautou. The 10-in. timepiece, with its maker's logo plainly visible, fills the screen at a couple of points in the film and looks suspiciously like something put there through the sort of paid product placement that marketers employ to get everything from soft drinks to cars featured in movies. But in this case Staples didn't pay a dime. Instead it is the latest lucky beneficiary of an artist's aesthetic choices...
...remember his pulling me aside and asking me in a genuinely surprised voice, ‘Who are these people?’ I think he was genuinely curious about Harvard; what is this institution, and who are these people, and where are they coming from, and what makes them tick...
...people talking about their jobs, the psychological effects of work and what work does to them,” he says. “It really made me curious about people working at Harvard...