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Before turning to fiction in the early 1980s, Chinese writer Yu Hua toiled as a country dentist. So it's no surprise, perhaps, that his early works are as sadistic as a triple root canal. In The Past and the Punishments, a collection of Yu's short stories, a young girl is eviscerated by cannibals. Elsewhere in the anthology, a murderer is himself dissected by blas? organ harvesters. Yu meant to critique a Chinese society whose capacity for cruelty can still astonish, but even his avant-garde peers were a bit put off. "I can't imagine what kind...
...struts through “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” and a dazzlingly languid “Love in Vain,” full of slo-mo and sensual red lighting. This is the rare concert movie that grips you as fully as a great fiction film. Don’t miss it. Harvard Film Archive, Friday...
...Making Fiction Seem Real
...while, in the 1980s, he was the literary world's unofficial No. 1 seed, the guy to beat. But after his respectfully received The Information in 1995, Amis went on an extended excursion into journalism, criticism, memoir, short stories and genre fiction. Doubts crept through the world of letters. Shots were taken, publicly, by the likes of Julian Barnes and A.S. Byatt. People found his immense talent obtrusive and, frankly, kind of irritating. Now Amis' first big novel in eight years, Yellow Dog (Miramax Books; 340 pages), has arrived in the U.S., still charred and smoking from vicious attacks...
...Much of the fun lies in Carey's bravura manipulation of the clich?s of genre fiction. Some readers might find the diabolical Chinese women in the grisly finale to be an offensive caricature, reminiscent of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu epics, but the scene plays absorbingly well as the denouement of a revenge tragedy...