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...albeit one that is as keenly concerned with history, politics, and sociology as it is with its characters. Including such an array of weighty and entangling material, however, does not overburden the book with research or theory. Rather, Naipaul’s art of character and his attention to detail only serve to enrich the work. At the outset, Naipaul sets himself to the task of investigating Africa and its politics through its people and their experiences. He laments the myopic Western focus on African politicians, not Africans themselves, “The book will arise, I hope...
...domestic with a political aspect; working in opposition to the sterilizing effects of the Industrial Revolution, the movement emphasized a return to handicraft, an importance of organic materials, and an emphasis on style within the middle-class home. For the brothers Greene, this was manifested in the subtle details of their furniture design. One living room table was sent to the builders with the instructions that the “architect will give direction of grain,” and sure enough, the wood’s naturally-occurring growth rings are the focal point of the table?...
...summer filled with justifiable acclaim for “Inglourious Basterds,” another war movie snuck onto the scene and captured audiences with an almost surreal attention to detail rather than with a clever rewrite of history. Written by American journalist Mark Boal, the script for “The Hurt Locker” is based on stories from his time covering a bomb squad in Iraq. Jeremy Renner (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” “28 Weeks Later”) leads the film?...
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...according to Porten. Johnson’s works include “The Critical Difference” (1980), “A World of Difference” (1987), and “The Wake of Deconstruction” (1994). “She often focuses on a very small detail in a novel that you might have otherwise overlooked,” Sollors said. “She draws so much out of it that the next time you read the novel, you can’t help thinking of Barbara Johnson.” —Staff writer...