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...paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso. "I had some images of them in my mind," Htein Lin says, laughing. "Of course, it was nothing like the reality." After murderous factional violence broke out among the rebels, he returned to Rangoon, where he continued performing and drawing. In 1998, a fellow former dissident happened to mention his name in a letter intercepted by authorities, and Htein Lin was hauled off by the secret police...
...house paint and syringes from the prison infirmary, he used those to create swirling, Jackson Pollock-like patterns. "If I had a lot of colors, I'd use them. If I only had black or brown, I'd use it," he says. During his seven months on death row, fellow inmates donated their sarongs - the only clothing allowed them - so that he would have something to paint on. A warden burned some of his earliest efforts, believing that they were escape maps - which, in one sense, they were - but by the time he was released in 2004, Htein...
TELEVISION Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey Cinemax; May 15, 8 p.m. E.T. The joke about Second Life is that it's for people without first ones. But during six months of "filming" in the virtual realm, Douglas Gayeton finds fellow seekers asking questions about identity, authenticity and whether anyone can create a better world. Also running on YouTube, iTunes and, yes, Second Life, this is a digital life well examined...
They are almost as different from one another as they are from their predecessors. Díaz, Lahiri's fellow Pulitzer winner, writes wild, slangy, funny prose laced with Dominican Spanish and Star Trek references. His determination to entertain is almost vaudevillian. Lahiri's stories are grave and quiet and slow, in the 19th century manner. They don't bribe you with humor or plot twists or flashy language; they extract a steep up-front investment of time from the reader before they return their hard, dense nuggets of truth. It's difficult to quote from her stories: they refuse...
...Ortega had earlier signed a food-security pact with his fellow travelers in the ALBA alliance, a socialist cooperation agreement between Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia. ALBA is blaming the food crisis on the "tyranny of global capitalism," and is using the situation as a teaching moment for its regional propaganda campaign...