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...iron-lattice bridge and through the former gate of Kanazawa Prison to the cathedral of St. Francis Xavier, where couples can still get married. Every building, from old post offices to police posts, butcher shops to banks, is fronted with an English-language plaque explaining its history. Within, dioramas depict life in the Meiji era (1867-1912). Many displays are interactive: a Kabuki troupe performs in the Kureha-za Theater, while an antique Kyoto streetcar runs to sake tastings at the city's former Nakai Brewery...
Clarke has another rare faculty: she can depict evil. Much of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell takes place in the shadow of a powerful and fascinatingly cruel fairy who makes Voldemort look like a Muppet. This is not kid friendly, although precocious kids may go for it. Clarke reaches down into fantasy's deep, dark, twisted roots, down into medieval history and the scary, Freudian fairy-tale stuff. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell reminds us that there's a reason fantasy endures: it's the language of our dreams. And our nightmares...
...collection, The Suffering Channel, is the slightly drawn-out tale of an artist whose work is his incredibly well-crafted feces. The artist is eventually forced by his fame-seeking wife to create his works on live television. While it may seem whiny and self-flagellating of Wallace to depict art as carny detritus, it's still comforting to know that the guy is suffering...
...magazine features roughly three dozen photos, and includes ads for Playboy, as well as for Cambridge businesses Hubba-Hubba, Daedalus and Redline, among others. About a dozen of the photos depict nude and topless Harvard students...
...look at the Abu Ghraib scandal and don't recognize ourselves. Politicians from George Bush to Hillary Clinton insist that those photos of abuse don't depict their America. The problem, as Jon Stewart quipped, is that the wrong America went to Iraq. But the reality, familiar from many instances where western democracies have sent troops to pacify foreign countries, is that there is almost always an ugly side...