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...question that stumped Kaplan was about the origin of a particular textile. “It’s from India,” he said, “but it doesn??t look Indian because it was Anglicized in a weird...
...disjointed thoughts. At her friend’s wake, Rivera is strangely distracted, her paranoid fits seized briefly by flashes of the mundane and pathetic around her. “Those sons of bitches,” thinks Rivera, “those cowards, they should all be killed. Doesn??t her hair look great?” Her thoughts bound from the invisible killers to the way her friend has been made up by the funeral home. But as Rivera’s personal investigation into Olga María’s murder progresses, her thoughts...
...American health care ranks really high in terms of the effectiveness with which way we can treat people,” Cohen said. “But it doesn??t necessarily rank high in terms of its comprehensive care, how we handle long term care, or whether—after we do something acute to try and help—we then continue to help...
...Walker’s quest for identity: can words and letters encompass the self? The soul? “Invisible” seems to suggest that they cannot, for at the novel’s end, Walker is flat and therefore fleeting, and a style that mirrors structure doesn??t excuse Auster’s seemingly lazy language...
This melting, however, doesn??t obscure the fact that Auster is a master of crafting intricate tales within tales. His novels are supremely readable and enticing. But even though his characters search for identity, like Walker in “Invisible,” they remain just that—invisible. Like Courbet, Auster has managed to create a work of art out of the awareness of tradition. He just never manages to break from...