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Alice Munro likes to play with time in the same startling way, making it rush forward or double back on itself. A Canadian whose first book was published in 1968, Munro is routinely called one of the finest living writers. You can turn to any of the eight stories in Runaway (Knopf; 335 pages...
...story focuses on the division’s nameless sergeant—played by a tough as nails Lee Marvin, in what is generally recognized as his finest performance—and four of his privates, who include the former Jedi Knight Mark Hamill, as they struggle to make it through every battle while anonymous reinforcements die beside them just as suddenly and quickly as they appear. The movie is a tale of war as a journey of neither glory nor honor, but rather of survival. Instead of to heroism, the soldiers aspire—as Fuller himself put it?...
...HARVARD.” The fans, most of whom gave considerably less than a rat’s ass about the Pep Squad’s project, dutifully held up their signs for all the time it took to realize the greatest ambition of New Haven’s finest...
...Movie sex, however, doesn't have to be Show; it can be Tell. It can reveal startling erotic truths about the characters, about us, without so much as a spangled breast. It can talk about sex and, in Closer, talk brilliantly. What's surprising is that some of the finest movie sex talk has been in films by Nichols, a man originally renowned for his deft comic touch, first in the funny, painful sketches he wrote and performed with Elaine May, then as a director of Neil Simon plays on Broadway...
...excellently edited collections. Drawn and Quarterly and Fantagraphics both began publishing a series dedicated to showcasing new talent with "Drawn and Quarterly Showcase" and "Blood Orange," respectively. In August Alternative Comics published a follow up to its outstanding 2003 anthology, "Rosetta." Best of all, "McSweeny's #13," arguably the finest comix anthology ever published, set a new standard for the form (see TIME.comix review.) Now, in the last month, two more anthologies have arrived, each with their own special qualities...