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Dowd writes her second full-length book in much the same style as her columns—part musing, part science, part incisive analysis, with short sentences and her signature biting wit. And like her twice-a-week column, “Are Men Necessary?” is intensely personal. She reveals her own anxiety through casual references to her own dating woes and the advice offered by her mother. The first section of the book is dedicated not to the discussion of whether men are “necessary,” but how women are taught...
...beach in Hawaii. On the oppposing wall hang blown-up “drunken” snapshots, lit by the dim glow of a red fabric chandelier. A cluster of dangling plastic circles and thin red fabric adorn the ceiling, a red shag rug the floor, and a full-length mirror the far wall. “We like to strut before we go out,” Matsui says. The pair found an eccentric fix for their bare bathroom walls: Japanese porn. Dozens of rectangular cutouts from Bukakae, black and white pencil sketches from pornographic cartoon magazines, adorn...
...Dumplings”—shortened from a full-length movie of the same name—is by far the most graphically disgusting of the three. Mei (Bai Ling) smuggles aborted fetuses into Hong Kong to make age-defying culinary delicacies. Her customer is Mrs. Lee (Miriam Yeung), a retired actress who is desperate to regain her lost youth and stop her husband’s rampant cheating...
Though Burns has been making comix since the early 80s, Black Hole is his first full-length graphic novel. Given that it took ten years for this book to reach completion, it may also be his only one. (It appeared over time as series of twelve comic books.) But you can't fault Burns for laziness. Once you see one of his illustrations, you see why it took so long. Possessing a graphical style as unique and instantly recognizable as Edward Gorey's, Burns works in meticulous detail using heavy inks that seem to bring out the worst horrors...
...immodest garb imaginable, a talking Fulla doll might exclaim, as the Oct. 13 Salient’s parody advertisement imagined it, “I like shopping!” Yet, before going to the bazaar, perhaps Fulla, unlike Barbie, would have to seek out her misplaced abaya, the full-length garment that her culture and her religion require her to wear while outdoors.The Salient parody imagines a great deal. And so, when our imagined Fulla speaks, the greater subservience shown by Muslim wives to their husbands manifests itself in the acquiescent statement, “Yes, Husband...