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Jhumpa Lahiri's stories reveal their intentions with a stately slowness that is starting to seem distinctly 20th century. Her writing is completely free of humor or cleverness. It's almost totally devoid of narrative suspense. In the title story of her new collection, UNACCUSTOMED EARTH (Knopf; 333 pages), a widowed man comes to visit his daughter; their family is Indian, but she married an American. Will the father move in with them? Will he tell his daughter that he has a new lover? Lahiri (who won a Pulitzer for Interpreter of Maladies) gives us nearly 60 pages of precisely...
Asked about his Jordan gaffe, the senator laughed without evident humor. "We all misspeak from time to time and I immediately corrected it," he replied. "Just as Senator Obama said he was looking forward to meeting the president of Canada, we all misspeak from time to time. So we'll just move...
...from his plays are too square or weird to be mainstream and has not invested in them. (His movies are distributed by the indie Lionsgate.) Nor does he get much help from critics, whose reactions to his work range mostly from dismissive to baffled. His wild concoctions of brassy humor and fulsome sentiment seem to them out of fashion without being smartly retro. Perry must figure his critics have their minds made up in advance; he doesn't offer the press early screenings of his movies, including his latest, the film version of Meet the Browns, which opens March...
...Globalization, with all of its possibilities for growth and advancement, as well as its potential for cultural loss, also provides the book’s irony and humor. The title “Elvis is Titanic” refers to one of the many East-meets-West exchanges that dot the book: Elvis and the movie Titanic are both well known in Iraq—select items of American culture that were readily available in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The memory of the former dictator is everywhere; as Klaus pushes his students to question globalization and its effects...
...episode of The Sopranos, that's sometimes how the rules are here. And if you imagine yourself in that [scenario], it becomes a lot easier to understand how things work here ... You know it's dangerous here, but you kind of take a dark sense of humor toward it, and just try to laugh off some things...