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From the start one expects something impressive: written by a Romanian-born poet, essayist and English professor whose last novel,The Blood Countess,was a national bestseller, Messiah promises to stun the reader. The dust jacket insists that "mordant social commentary and incandescent characters" lie within. A short plot summary instantly intrigues. And so one has every reason to expect a marvel between the covers of Messiah. Unfortunately, one has just as many reasons to be disappointed...
...first report focuses on the seas, and for the lead profile TIME essayist Roger Rosenblatt explored the California coast with Sylvia Earle, a noted deep-sea diver and ocean advocate. Says he: "In a few days, she taught me the wonder of her world. I think she loves her subject too much to keep it to herself." Other stories came from a global team of TIME correspondents and contributors: Lisa Beyer, Jack Epstein, Christopher Hallowell, Thomas Sancton and John Skow. Beyer discovered that one of Jordan's leading conservationists is a 28-year-old cousin of King Hussein...
Hold it! Hold it! McGwire and Sosa both went yard! I need a pretentious sports essayist stat...
...Essayist Stanley Crouch's latest book is Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives
Pico Iyer is an essayist and novelist, author most recently of Tropical Classical