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...seen this child?" notice about a boy who looks uncannily like her own adopted three-year-old son, the race is on. (That's only Page 1!) TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Scottoline (pronounced Scot-oh-lee-nee) at her home in Philadelphia. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...studied English at the University of Pennsylvania and Philip Roth was one of your professors. Wasn't law school a snore after that? No, law school was fantastic! I loved law school. I teach law now at Penn; I teach a course that I developed called Justice and Fiction. Law school is the most academically rigorous environment I've ever been in, and I just love that. The bottom line is, what you're talking about in law school is "What is justice?" That's what I'm writing about, too. What is right and wrong? What I like about...
...Rabid, in which Chambers plays Rose, a car-crash victim who undergoes surgery that forces her to feed on human blood; soon she infects most of Toronto. The notion of a blond-angel porn star as the carrier of a fatal disease seemed like misanthropic science-fiction then. Within a few years, the festering of AIDS would ravage the world and decimate the sex-film community...
...light of our society’s pervasive equation of meat-eating with masculine dominance, such minglings of the anti-meat agenda with misogyny assume added complexity. The ostensible absurdity of a vegetarian weight-lifter exposes a deep-rooted cultural fiction: that men gain strength and virility through eating the flesh of other mammals. Although, from a nutritional standpoint, meat may do more to clog men’s arteries than to build their muscles, meat retains symbolic power: The slaughter and consumption of animal flesh serves as a means for men to assert their dominance over nature...
...which, however whimsical, relies on specifics more than style. Ultimately, Codrescu’s “Guide” stumbles on its own conceit: Dada prose written by an academic. It’s too scholarly to be absurd, too absurd to be edifying. Unwilling to fully embrace fiction or reality, “The Posthuman Dada Guide” chooses to undermine both. Maybe this is the most Dadaist way to deal with the future—to propose that neither knowledge nor art can save us from our own mistakes.—Staff writer Madeleine...