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Never has popular perception been more mistaken. Today comics come in a dazzling array of genres, from superhero to science fiction, comedic to gothic and mainstream to independent. Comic book publishers have targeted audiences of all ages by catering their books to suit the preferences of every conceivable type of reader. The days of comics being the exclusive intellectual property of 12-year-olds-and-below are gone...
...life in Matapari’s small Congolese village is not all traditional African magicians and self-important Catholic missionaries, characters that have become almost standard in African post-colonial fiction since Chinua Achebe’s classic Things Fall Apart. Set in the 1980s and 1990s amid political turbulence in the Congo Republic, Matapari’s childhood is one where government upheavals are played out on television, where Coca-Cola infiltrates local grocery markets and where Dragonball Z and Terminator movies have as much clout as provincial folklore. As in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight?...
...whites reacted with amazement. It was as though a school board in America had said students were forbidden to read the Declaration of Independence - or "Huckleberry Finn," for that matter. Ms. Gordimer responded with high dudgeon similar to that of the ANC; she said that "if the selectors of fiction are looking for moral lessons against racism, few could be more telling than the situation in this novel...
...experimental treatment includes steps that sound a lot like science fiction: Harvesting the patient's own skin cells, growing them in a petri dish, and transecting those cells with the gene that creates nerve growth factor - a substance required to maintain normal brain function. The final step is the most dramatic: During an 11-hour procedure, doctors drilled a hole in the right side of the patient's brain and implanted the cells...
...where both parents taught at a Bureau of Indian Affairs school. Those years drew Erdrich strongly toward her Ojibwe heritage and had the same effect on her six siblings, nearly all of whom, she says, "are involved in some way in Native American health or education." Erdrich's fiction, of course, has reflected this side of her background, but she now has finished three-quarters of a new novel called The Master Butcher's Singing Club, inspired by the name of a club to which her paternal, German grandfather once belonged...