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...FORSTER: A LIFE by P.N. Furbank Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 619 pages...
Haifa century ago, E.M. Forster raised questions about British colonialism in A Passage to India. Novelists have been answering ever since. One of the most unusual replies is this brief visit to a colony of Anglo-Indians in Debrakot, a forgotten hill town where the conflict of blood and tradition provides new wounds every...
After a Nettles single, Lasorda brought in flamethrower Terry Forster to finish the cremation. He allowed a Texas Leaguer to Chris Chambliss, but then struck out three of the final four batters he faced to nail down the coffin...
...Realpolitik in a philosophical work? Because "the metaphysical and political aspects of freedom are in the end inseparable." Ideas are for Barrett, as they were for Plato, "really real"; he writes of them in a confiding, passionate voice that has more in common with his literary heroes-Kafka, Forster, Beckett-than with the philosophers who frame his argument. One luminous interlude is given over to a meditation on a typical morning, afternoon and night in the author's life, glimpsed through the lens of Heidegger's concept of "Being." Our daily lives, Barrett insists, can disclose our deepest...
...past comparisons to E.M. Forster (perhaps inevitable whenever an English novelist takes on India) should by now be declared totally irrelevant to Scott. He has earned the right to be com pared to himself...