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Rarely has a book been preceded by as much fevered speculation and murderous ill will as Martin Amis' Yellow Dog (Jonathan Cape; 288 pages). It's out this week in the U.K. and already getting more ink than David Beckham on a slow news day. That's because Amis, 54...
Now I'm not questioning the sincerity of people like Rudy who approach crisis as an opportunity for personal growth. But this whole notion that adversity, and especially the specter of fatal illness, should turn you into a better, kinder person is not only erroneous, but it also creates burdensome...
It is 1947. A rich merchant's son named Fuqui (played by Ge You, who won the best-actor prize at the Cannes festival this year) waters the local casino tables with his father's fortune. Fuqui is a cool dude in line for comeuppance, and he soon learns humility...
The letters' stilted syntax and the use of words like "curs" seem caricatures of American polemics. The letterheads include hyphens between "Ku" and "Klux," a style rarely used by the myriad of self-proclaimed K.K.K. groups in the U.S., which also tend to refer to their organizations by fuller...
The Reagan administration, governed by the long-term misconception that drug addiction is a moral failure and not a physiological phenomenon rooted in serious social inequities, is treating drug problems as a low priority item. There are an estimated 12,000 heroin addicts living in Massachusetts, and the number of...