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...fiction from 2008 that is more ambitious, more expansive, more powerful than Bolaño’s book—that there is any other book more deserving. Rather, the problems that I see all stem from that simple piece of common knowledge: Bolaño is dead. When the award was presented to the translator, Natasha Wimmer, the author himself was a thoughtless corpse decomposing in his lime-strewn grave.Awards should be given to the best book. I don’t dispute that. And in the case of the National Book Critics Circle Award...
Often the first and only manifestation of the disease is when an individual “drops dead,” only to be diagnosed with ARVC at the autopsy, Saffitz said...
...From the Albuquerque setting to the overuse of the word “sunshine” to the pivotal presence of a dilapidated van, there is a lot we’ve seen already. Arkin’s grandfather character appears to have risen from the dead to star in yet another film, although this time it is he and not Greg Kinnear who is hooked on get-rich-quick schemes. Even the storyline follows the same arc as its predecessor. So which film deserves the title of “Sunshine?”Surprisingly, the parallels between...
Alliances die when they win. Take away the enemy, and you take away the glue that holds a coalition together. The European alliance against Napoleon was all but dead seven years after they had danced the last waltz at the Congress of Vienna. The entente that followed the defeat of Wilhelmine Germany collapsed five years after the armistice. The Soviet-American alliance against Hitler was practically finished...
...Dead Aid By Dambisa Moyo FSG; 188 pages...