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Xie’s curatorial arrangement optimally displays a series of surreal, sexually charged images. “Garden of Earthly Delights” features nude female figures interacting within a surrealist landscape, while “Erotica” depicts similar figures draped across an imposing, devil-like creature, whose intricate folds of flesh and meticulously detailed features elicit a potent emotional response. Perhaps the most striking of these sexual, unearthly images is “Los Dos Kaylas,” which depicts two faceless, nude figures, their bodies textured with a mélange of colors, perched...
...doubles, defeating Duke sophomore Torsten Wietoska and junior Alain Michel, 8-6. But just when Harvard seemed to have a shot at taking the doubles point by sending number its top team into a tie break, Felton and Schultz could not pull it out, losing to Blue Devil senior Dylan Arnould and sophomore David Holland...
...both teams facing doubleheaders, the Crimson and Duke agreed beforehand to stop the match if one team gained a 4-0 lead. Felton fell to Arnould in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4, at No. 2 singles, Holland defeated Schultz, 6-3, 6-3, at No. 4, and Blue Devil sophomore Luke Marchese won against Mangham, 6-2, 6-2, at No. 6 to seal the victory for Duke...
Detective writer Walter Mosley loves to dig deep into his characters. He wrote 11 books featuring the Los Angeles-based gumshoe Easy Rawlins (the first of which, Devil in a Blue Dress, was made into a Denzel Washington film) before retiring him in 2007. His latest private eye, former mob crook Leonid McGill, stars in the new novel Known to Evil, the second in what Mosley hopes will be a 10-book series. Mosley spoke with TIME about why he doesn't read mystery novels, the importance of character names, and why he never benefits from inspiration...
That empathy with the Devil--taking a despicable character and slowly bringing us around to his side--is the sort of thing Hill does best. It's also what's missing from so much of the girl-meets-vampire gruel that dominates the genre these days. "The writer's first job in horror fiction is to convince the reader that there is a real person there to care about," says Hill. "If you don't have that, you don't have anything...