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This is literature in mid-transformation, the modernist bleeding into the postmodern and beyond. In his introduction to Astonishing Stories, Chabon calls this new high-low fiction "Trickster literature," and you can almost hear in that label the distant bugle call of a manifesto. And you can almost see the future of literature coming. Looks like it's going to be a page turner...
This is the stuff of pulp fiction; that's how the '60s novel and film The Carpetbaggers played it. Martin Scorsese and screenwriter John Logan take a statelier approach, retelling two decades of Hughes' life in chronological order and trying to explain his degeneration with an eerily erotic scene of his mother washing the boy Howard and warning him of the dangers of pestilence. This penny-Freud thesis can't support the film's nearly three ambling hours. We're happy to take the trip with Hughes but don't know how he reached Destination Crazy Hermit...
Engagement is told in the style of Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill, Vol. 1, with short vignettes arranged without regard to chronological order. Though they often focus only on Mathilde, allowing the audience to share her discoveries, thoughts and feelings, the point of view occasionally changes to keep viewers on their toes and broaden the thematic perspective...
...Almodovar’s graceful balancing between damaged identity and cinematic fantasy is the film’s greatest accomplishment. The film-within-the-film prepares us for this trapeze act as it poses as Ignacio’s back-story, but turns out to be itself a fiction film—a kind of aggrandizing simulacra of Ignacio’s identity. After we are shown that Ignacio’s flashbacks are no more than an imaginary cinematic representation, Almodovar is able to effectively coincide his look at Ignacio’s childhood into...
...Power Game, a new novel by former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government Joseph Nye curiously inverts the old adage about truth being stranger than fiction: this time the fiction has become true...