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...arrived in their hundreds of thousands in the 1990s and now dominate the city's commercial life?much to the resentment of its original residents. The city is also a favored refuge of Wa and Chinese drug traffickers, who cruise the city's free-for-all intersections in dark-windowed late-model Land Cruisers and Pajeros. Like native Mandalayans, I negotiated the streets by bicycle or trishaw, or else flagged down a 40-year-old Mazda B600 taxi, Burma's answer to the Trabant. Exploring the pot-holed backstreets, I came across extravagant faux-classical mansions towering over otherwise destitute...
Oryx and Crake, Atwood’s newest novel, explores the dark side of cloning and other scientific endeavors, comes from a long line of lab rats—her grandfather was a doctor, her father a biologist and her nephew and brother are researchers. Atwood herself planned to follow the family tradition, before landing in her current occupation. “I was headed toward being a biologist of some kind before I got kidnapped by writing,” she says...
From worries about terrorism to deadly viruses to glow-in-the-dark creatures, Atwood’s ideas for her book, she admits, are cribbed from the current climate. For example, the narrator spent his childhood in a gated community owned by his parents’ science lab, in which the schools, homes and parks are all controlled by corporate interests...
Much has been made of the supposedly anti-American attitude behind Dogville, Danish director Lars von Trier’s (Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves) latest portrait of a woman wronged by society...
LEFT IN THE DARK...