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...used to be a time for swimming, boating and sitting around the campfire telling ghost stories. But summer camp isn't what it used to be. For today's driven kids, those summer sleepaways are increasingly being devoted to resume building, not lanyard making...
When some of them took the bait, Roth went even further. Nathan Zuckerman, the narrator of The Ghost Writer (1979), seems identical to Roth in everything from his vocation (writer) and faith (Jewish) to his Newark childhood. (Tarnapol at least grew up in the Bronx.) What is more, Zuckerman is facing the same dilemma that Roth did, with considerable attendant publicity early in his career; he has been accused of writing a story involving misbehaving Jews that, other Jews claim, will confirm anti-Semitic prejudices in Gentile readers...
...these parallels between the invented and the real, The Ghost Writer conveys a formal design and aesthetic shapeliness that are antithetical to the factual imperatives of autobiographical writing. Roth has tirelessly insisted on the distinction between the raw material of life and the transforming power of fiction, and his energy shows no signs of flagging. His office is a study on his Connecticut property about 60 yds. from his house: "I work at my job the way most human beings work at jobs; I start mornings and quit evenings." Bad reviews no longer bother him: "I'm sometimes frustrated...
...Pacific and its aftermath is getting its own. In addition to Pearl Harbor, we have seen two recent Pulitzer prize-winning histories?Herbert P. Bix's biography of Hirohito and John W. Dower's magnificent analysis of Japan's postwar reconstruction. And in recent weeks, Ghost Soldiers, a reconstruction of a daring 1945 raid to free the last survivors of the Bataan death march from their prisoner-of-war camp, has raced up the best-seller lists. (Ghost Soldiers is a useful corrective to Pearl Harbor. In the film, the Japanese navy appears to have been staffed by the sort...
...Adam Hochschild's brilliant and damning "King Leopold's Ghost" describes the early colonization and exploitation of the Congo. Long before Sierra Leone, Belgium's colonial army encouraged the amputation of body parts as proof that native soldiers had actually killed their enemies. Former Financial Times correspondent Michela Wrong's "In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz" details Joseph Desire Mobutu's rise to power and his descent into paranoia, isolation and self destruction. Mobutu's Congo, Wrong writes, was a modern-day kleptocracy - a nation state that institutionalized theft...