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...thus more loveable. Several points in “The Line of Beauty,” most notably the end, are tear-worthy, but the novel is no vanitas piece or memento mori. Hollinghurst once wrote that elegy is “the dominant and inevitable genre of gay fiction.” Yet elegy celebrates life while marking death, and in “The Line of Beauty,” life abounds, enthralls, and intoxicates.And besides, “The Line of Beauty” deserves more than the niche-market label of “gay fiction...
Christ the Lord is, as any retelling of Jesus' life must be, cleft: it's both a work of devotion and a work of fiction, and one reads it with a divided mind. The religious reader wants it to hew closely to the known facts and spirit of Jesus' life, to show respect and be plausible. The novel reader wants drama and action. Seven-year-old Jesus is largely the good little kid you would expect, and he makes the novel reader in you a teeny bit impatient. When Jesus bumps into Satan in a fever dream, Satan says...
Music. Flight. Racism. The tales in Ralph Ellison's posthumous collection of short fiction, Flying Home and Other Stories (173 pages; Random House; $23) deal with a variety of issues, but certain concerns pop up repeatedly, variations on compelling melodies. Characters in different stories burst into song; birds and airplanes are seen as metaphors for freedom; and white racism is a fanged, fearsome threat...
...Mitty” and queer cinema classic “The Birdcage,” the recently released (and unauthorized) video San Francisco director Ryan Junell created for Spoon’s “The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine,” from “Gimme Fiction,” their latest album, is definitely interesting. After all, self-proclaimed “bad-ass drag-king” Johnny Kat makes a cameo appearance...
Harvard Square Bestsellers Hardcover Fiction 1. On Beauty Zadie Smith 2. Indecision Benjamin Kunkel 3. Knife of Dreams Robert Jordan 4. Rabbi’s Cat Joann Sfar 5. The March E.L. Doctorow 6. Slow Man J.M. Coetzee 7. Third Brother Nick McDonnell 8. Gilead Mailynne Robinson 9. Acme Novelty Library, Vol. 17 Chris Ware 10. Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman Hardcover Nonfiction 1. Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Jesus and Yahweh Harold Bloom 3. Maimonides Sherwin B. Naland 4. Beyond Reason Robert Fisher 5. 1491 Charles Mann 6. Freakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 7. Little History...