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...storyteller's ancient, changeless pattern develops, working as well in Denmark and Greenland as it did for Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California and for Martin Cruz Smith and the series that began with Gorky Park in Moscow. Smilla puts her nose in harm's way and gets it bloodied. Like Archer and like Smith's Russian cop Arkady Renko, she keeps on poking. She's in peril in a glossy casino near Copenhagen, on a powerful, mysteriously equipped icebreaker plowing north toward Greenland, on the floating metal atoll of a huge fueling dock, and finally...
...American playwright uses factual material more imaginatively than Lee Blessing, whether speculating about arms-control negotiations in the witty A Walk in the Woods or ruminating on how the national pastime embodies our darkest heritage in the antiheroic biography Cobb. He hits a new peak in TWO ROOMS, a depiction of a Beirut hostage and his grieving wife that merges harrowing narrative with elegantly poetic, and redemptive, visual and verbal imagery. A brilliant, too-brief off-Broadway staging by James Houghton, starring Jeffrey Hayenga and the unforgettable Laura Esterman, has just closed. The play deserves further productions around the country...
...perspective. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jacobs spent part of his youth on Mohawk reservations upstate and in Canada, where "I was criticized by relatives and friends for being too educated." But he also lived in Anglo communities in New York and New Jersey, where "I was often the darkest- skinned child in my class...
...like Patricia Highsmith. RIPLEY UNDER WATER (Knopf; $21) is her fifth novel featuring the fastidious, charming murderer Tom Ripley, now living the life of a country gentleman in France. But this time Ripley plays the mouse; the cats are two creepy new American neighbors who seem to know his darkest secrets. Part of the pleasure of reading Highsmith comes from her evocative descriptions of place, whether small French villages or Tangier or London. Even so, they are but momentary diversions from the sense of foreboding and the most terrifying question of all: Why do we hope the psychopathic Ripley will...
...BAND OF SETTLERS LEFT ILLInois for California. They ended up stranded in the Sierra Nevada at the outset of the worst winter ever recorded there. By the time the starving survivors straggled into Sutter's Fort, THE DONNER PARTY had written one of the darkest chapters in American history, a tale of humans reduced to the most desperate circumstances -- including, famously, cannibalism. For this PBS documentary, Ric Burns, a co-producer with his brother Ken of The Civil War, uses the same techniques as that series -- archival photographs, readings from diaries and letters -- to re-create the story with harrowing...