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Naked people delivered straight to your dropbox? Sweet. Sexy is more than just back with the resurrection of H-Bomb, a literary art magazine with fiction, essays, poetry, and—you guessed it—unclothed classmates...
...Firth and his toned torso emerging from a fountain in the BBC adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” for ushering in an era of Jane Austen fervor. Nearly 10 years after most women with a pulse realized Mark Darcy is the most eligible bachelor in fictional history comes “The Jane Austen Book Club,” a film adaptation of the popular novel by Karen Joy Fowler. The premise of “Book Club” is refreshingly intelligent. It is a step above standard romantic dramedy fare that...
...Union” is my book of the summer—problems like evil, exile, redemption, faith, and identity become so much more: questions contained in plot and action, character and style, dialogue and metaphysical meditation. Chabon has made no secret of his interest in genre fiction and desire to obliterate the supposed highbrow/lowbrow divide. In 2005, he wrote a passionate defense of entertainment, arguing that rather than handling “the things that entertain them with gloves of irony and postmodern tongs,” intelligent people should reject “a narrow, debased concept of entertainment...
...above the initial premise of “All-American girl runs TV show; All-American hard-ass becomes her boss; both have to deal with All-American antics of All-American weirdo celebrity.” In just 21 episodes, Fey and Co. have created a fictional New York so rich with supporting characters and delightfully off-kilter logic that it could unseat the Simpsons’ Springfield as TV’s most fascinating city.PUBLIC SCORN INDEX: 97%“Friday Night Lights” (NBC)Fridays, 9 p.m.Season Two Premiere: Oct. 5Don’t worry...
When I came to Harvard, back in 1993, a committee was preparing a long-awaited report on the Core. It concluded that everybody liked the program and was satisfied with it, though in the minds of everybody I knew this was fiction. I wrote to the committee chair with the observation that the document reminded me of the way the East German regime once cut a bridge to West Berlin in half and went on to name it the Brücke der Einheit, “Bridge of Unity?...