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WHEN HE STARTED TAKING PICtures around New York City in the late 1940s, Roy DeCarava stepped into the most irresistible role that photography offers: a walker in the city, a camera-equipped descendant of the quick-witted literary strollers that the French called flaneurs. Looking out for the knotty surprises...
YOU SHOW THE PHOTO OF A FOSSIL OF A sluglike creature and say it is the oldest known member of the line that led to humans. I think it is "lowlife" to pass that off on others. Look at the precision of the creation around us and be honest. There...
The Blood Countess shows signs of that pastime. Codrescu mixes amorphous bits about the Hungarian State Archive with speculations surrounding Bathory. He further conflates legend and scholarship through his fictional Drake Bathory-Kereshtur, a descendant of the countess who lives in the U.S. and craves to be punished for a...
To illustrate: when Drake revisits his homeland, he finds skinheads and old aristocrats smelling of mothballs and sauerkraut eager to make him King of Hungary. Fortunately, the possibility is more comic than cautionary. Drake recoils at the thought of honoring his "curse of identity." So does Hungary, which, despite its...
AND THEY BOTH SING TOO! In a stunning coincidence, bankrupt Vegas pop singer WAYNE NEWTON announced that he's a direct descendant of POCAHONTAS the very week Pocahontas the movie was released! Newton, who traces his Powhatan heritage through his paternal grandfather, says he hopes to bring his ancestor's...