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...DeWitt Jones, president of Boston Community Loan Fund (BCLF) told a story about seeing the need for a touch...
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
...literature as in life, a fine line often separates the ambitious from the merely pretentious. In her dazzling debut novel, The Last Samurai (Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion; 530 pages; $24.95), Helen DeWitt walks this line with the utmost confidence. Describing the book, however--a work that covers decades, spans oceans, has sections in Japanese, Greek and Old Norse, and touches on chess strategy and Laplace transformations, whatever they are--may be tricky, so hang on tight...
...elegant structure remains: a book about a boy and his mom; about the search for a father; about trying to find one's way in the world. The Last Samurai is an original work of brilliance about, in part, the limits of brilliance. And in literature as in life, DeWitt understands that what we like most of all is a good yarn...
...What surprised me about this issue was how far out on a limb some of our contributors were willing to go," says Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who edited three of our Visions installments. "We've got M.I.T. professors confidently making predictions--of computers' gaining consciousness or robots' throwing off their chains--that go farther than anything William Gibson has written...