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...excited that you have this other person; you do things together, rather than on your own." The emotional bonds of twindom are at the heart of 26a (Chatto and Windus; 230 pages), Evans' compelling first novel. And yet, as Evans knows all too well, there can be a dark side to twin magic. Her twin sister, Paula, suffered from depression and committed suicide in 1998. "Paula's death," says Evans, "made me focus on what I really wanted to do." What Evans really wanted to do was write. After dancing in an African troupe in the British seaside city...
...sisters' spooky voices, which show an infatuation with Billie Holiday in her late, coming-apart phase. Like all Americans in Paris, they're a bit mannered, but the songs work, particularly By Your Side ("I'll wear your black eyes/ Bake you apple pies"), a clattering ballad about the dark side of devotion. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...make sense." Not perfect sense; his later novels, like The Innocent, Black Dogs and Enduring Love, are still full of absurdity and enigma. But the characters have a more full-blooded life. Combine that with McEwan's companionable mind--strange to say of a man with such a dark disposition, but there it is--and with his intricate but unfussy prose, and you understand the gathering power of his work. Perowne finds majestic pleasure even in the simple act of shaving with his "extravagantly disposable triple-bladed razor ... drawing this industrial gem over familiar flesh sharpens his thoughts." Just keep...
...think I would take a 5- or a 6-year-old to this," the series creator told CBS's 60 Minutes of Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, opening May 19. In Sith, Anakin Skywalker, played by HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN, transforms into Darth Vader in an especially dark scene. Of course, since most Star Wars fans are actually 12-year-olds trapped in the bodies of thirtysomethings, they should have no trouble getting into the theater...
...start of the infamous 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, white words on a black screen declare: “A PLEA FOR THE MOTION PICTURE…. We do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue—the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word—that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare...