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...generating just as much buzz. And no wonder. At his Glyndebourne Festival debut this summer, playing Neptune in Mozart's Idomeneo, he riveted the attention with not only vocal power, but musicality in a flashy part that's too often just belted out. Lemalu is on the cusp of stardom. His first album last year, a rich collection of favorite songs like Schubert's Der Wanderer and Finzi's Rollicum-Rorum, won him the Gramophone magazine award for best newcomer. Although EMI are cagey about the figures, it sold tens of thousands - extremely good for an unknown singer - persuading...
...illuminating portrait of one family that makes readers care deeply about their fate. Though hardly typical - as the most successful bookseller in a largely illiterate country, Khan is well-educated and prosperous - their stories, told largely in their own voices, capture the daily reality of a society on the cusp of change. The book, published in the U.K. this month, was the surprise best-selling title in Norway last year and is due for release throughout Europe and in the U.S. over the next several months. With the unexpected proceeds, Seierstad recently bought an apartment in a house in Oslo...
Marjane Satrapi is a typical headstrong girl on the cusp of adolescence: she questions her teachers, her parents and her society. It just happens that society is a misogynistic theocracy. Persepolis (Pantheon; 153 pages) is Satrapi's memoir of growing up in a well-off progressive family in the wake of Iran's Islamic revolution. Marjane's mother tapes their windows (to guard against bombs) and covers them in black curtains (to guard against their devout neighbors' prying). Drawn in simple, bold lines with wide, inquisitive eyes, Marjane is precocious and passionate, and her small rebellions (sneaking a cigarette) mirror...
...cusp of yet another curricular review, 25 years after the creation of the Core Curriculum, Harvard College looks over its shoulder at what has been, and forward to what might...
Fittingly, Golden’s book was purchased by Random House Publishers on the cusp of his 40th birthday—when he was 39 and 10/12, he says...