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...prize-winning and pearl-like in its polish. But rarely sexy. In work such as Remembering Babylon and Dream Stuff, as much action seems to take place inside the mind as in the body. Which makes the love scene in the title story of his latest collection of short fiction, Every Move You Make (Chatto & Windus; 244 pages), something of a breakthrough. Here the writerly restraint-as book editor Jo conjoins with the ultimately unknowable Sydney house-builder Mitchell Maze-should be studied by every budding Mills & Boon author: "For a moment he entirely yielded, and she felt...
...SQUIRREL MOTHERMEGAN KELSOThese short stories offer a sweet respite from the high-stakes drama of most other graphical fiction. Kelso uses a warm, inviting style of soft colors and rounded, almost pillowy characters to explore the mysteries of people and relationships. A typical story, Meow Face, portrays a girl's deteriorating relationship with an increasingly eccentric aunt whose inexplicable antics include meowing in public. Using quiet panels, as when a busy mother takes a moment on a sunny porch, Kelso's stories invite contemplation...
...other five fellows are Caroline Elkins, Foster associate professor of African Studies and winner of the 2006 Pulitzer for non-fiction; Omer Ismail, a Sudanese activist studying the genocide in Darfur; Andrea Rossi, the former research coordinator of United Nations Children’s Fund’s Innocenti Research Centre; Beena Sarwar, a journalist and documentary filmmaker studying human rights in Pakistan; and William Arkin, NBC News military analyst who will be writing a chapter for the upcoming book “In Search of the Perfect...
Seventy-seven years ago, Virginia Woolf declared that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” And for nearly 35 of those years, proponents of a women’s center, women and men both, have asked for the same tools in order to battle what they call female “marginalization” at Harvard. The newly opened Harvard College Women’s Center, and the connected offices of the Ann Radcliffe Trust, are the long-awaited products of those calls...
...soldiers. BOTTOM LINE: “Flyboys” portrays the international honor codes of war, the respect that soldiers of opposing sides hold for one another, and addresses the futility of war. This is a war film that has steered clear of side-picking propaganda and romanticized fiction. For that, it deserves a 21-gun salute. —Reviewer April B. Wang can be reached at abwang@fas.harvard.edu...