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...your knowledge of German literature doesn't get much further in the alphabet than G and H (Goethe, Grass, Hesse), a visit to www.litrix.de will prove literarily enlightening. The trilingual website (German, English and a third language that changes every year) introduces readers to a wide variety of new fiction, nonfiction and children's titles each month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Read All About It | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...living, had not equipped their sons for the political or sexual complexities of the modern era. Without help from their past or their culture, Naipaul's heroes struggled against the world for dignity and self-knowledge. They rarely succeeded, yet their struggle could sometimes ennoble them. Naipaul's fiction career had two peaks?first, in 1961, with A House for Mr. Biswas, the epic of an Indian in Trinidad who wants to build a home of his own, then in 1979, with A Bend in the River, the story of Salim, an Indian in Africa who tries to start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth Be Told | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...could not even talk about Kosovo's "final status" for fear of inflaming the Serb community. That changed, ironically, with the clashes that made the Trajkovics flee. Those riots, which left 19 dead and displaced 4,000, underscored how a peaceful, multiethnic Kosovo was still a fiction. Since then, Kosovar Serb representatives have withdrawn from local U.N.-sponsored institutions. Though the new Serbian President Boris Tadic has called on Kosovar Serbs to vote, he is virtually alone in doing so. Bishop Artemije, a Serbian Orthodox prelate, even compared voting to "national suicide." Under a new plan, the elected Assembly will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Little Local Poll or The Birth of a Nation? | 10/17/2004 | See Source »

Indeed, Corgan counts the Beatles among his artistic influences for their ability to “channel the masses.” He also points to Bob Dylan, science fiction writer Philip K. Dick and author William S. Burroughs...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Poetry Billy Corgan’s New Gig | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...feature films, the director is God,” Alfred Hitchcock once quipped. “In documentary films, God is the director.” By this relatively narrow definition, the contemporary political non-fiction films that have been labeled documentaries are really more akin to feature films—Moore’s recitation from his commandeered ice cream truck, after all, easily qualifies as directorial lording...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reel Politik | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

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