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...Given Day By Dennis Lehane; out now Wait, what is Lehane's name doing on a 700-page epic about union politics, a flu epidemic, immigration, baseball, an Irish cop and a black fugitive in Boston in 1919? He's gone big and literary on us, and the results are part home run and part homework. But he hasn't forgotten where he came from: there's great pulp storytelling in here...
...entangle the Ibis? Or will it be a mutiny of disgruntled migrants? Or what about the machinations of a mysterious ex-pirate from Burma's Muslim Rohingya minority, whose betel-stained gums and drooping mustache make him look "like some bloodthirsty Tartar of the steppes"? Wherever Ghosh's Asian epic may turn, readers can rest assured there are few better navigators to guide...
...economic meltdown, the government is forced to buy up billions of dollars worth of bad assets - raising taxes to pay for the program - as citizens seethe. That's the U.S., today. But the prequel to Nightmare on Wall Street occurred more than a decade ago in Japan, when epic real estate and stock-market bubbles burst - making it all the more remarkable that some of the international companies now prowling for bargains among the remains of battered U.S financial institutions are based in Tokyo...
...Tengo, as well as psych-rockers Mercury Rev and Brian Jonestown Massacre.Hogan and ATP scheduled the festival’s other two nights. The first night features five artists each playing a full album as their set, including Built to Spill performing their celebrated 1997 indie rock epic “Perfect From Now On” and Tortoise playing their 1996 post-rock masterpiece “Millions Now Living Will Never Die.”Full album concerts experienced a surge in popularity over the past few years. Hogan explained that ATP started the full album trend with...
...grapple with the themes of multiculturalism and immigration, but I just can’t.Thankfully, Smith’s novels don’t need me: they are wildly successful, and in many ways they deserve the acclaim they received. Smith is a gifted writer whose works are positively epic: plentiful characters, rich plot twists, and clever details that enthrall and intimidate the reader. Furthermore, she taps a store of compelling themes: race, immigration, colonialism, and ethnic and cultural ambiguity. But she does so with such a heavy hand that it’s impossible not to feel...