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...Kanter, a Bush Administration Under Secretary of State who conducted previous talks with Pyongyang: "What we don't know about North Korea is so vast that it makes the Kremlin of the 1950s look like an open book." The communist northern tier of a peninsula once known as the Hermit Kingdom has lived up to that name with a vengeance, enveloping its 22 million people in a bell jar of propaganda, thought control and mythology glorifying the Kims, often in public pageants that would dwarf a Cecil B. DeMille production. What factions may exist in the leadership, who controls them...
...result, the press in many cases diminished McCarthy's great value by making him out to be some sort of hermit caballero and by all but ignoring his remarkable prose. Not that any of it bothered him enough to respond. He just kept working, and this week bookstores are receiving copies of The Crossing (Knopf; 426 pages; $23), the centerpiece in a trilogy that began with Horses. The hero of that book was a boy ahoof in Mexico in 1950, to whom it was easy to give your heart. The Crossing moves two orphaned brothers on ( horseback across the same...
...year-old girl and her tutor, a seemingly shallow, smug university man a decade older. The 20th century story focuses on the present generation of the girl's landed family and on two biographers who are probing Byron's connections to the house, investigating the story of a mysterious hermit and researching the evolution of the English garden...
...interesting twist is added to the already twisted scenario by a wandering Plague of Madness (Bess Wohl). She flits across the stage, effecting Ovidian metamorphoses among the characters, and uttering cryptically: "I come to the fruits and to the fishes. I come to the flatterer and to the suffering hermit...
...tales present it, is a sorry thing. Sophistication doesn't improve it: the bloodiest deed in the Leatherstocking tales, a frontier My Lai, is the responsibility of a French aristocrat. Nor does the simple life guarantee innocence. Cooper's blackest villain is an Indian, his second blackest a hermit trapper who hunts scalps for bounty. The scene in which the trapper, scalped himself and dying, fears he may go to hell, is one of the most powerful Cooper ever wrote, and it owes its power to ethical earnestness as much as to gore and panic. "We live in a world...