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Another franchise reinvigorated by a prequel, this film of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel introduces Daniel Craig as a younger, surlier 007, with more abdominal rips than all 300 Spartans. Craig's Bond is a rogue warrior playing by his own brutal rules. The plot, as always, is irrelevant, so enjoy the movie for what it is: a bunch of cool stunts, gritty scenes and capital-A actors having...
...without knowing if there would be a functioning government coming out the other side or even if their elected representatives would be in a job at the end of the month. Two-thirds of them turned out anyway. The outcome was fairly predictable, in that elderly Protestant preacher Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams, who turned IRA gunmen into formidable political operators, tightened their respective holds on the Protestant and Catholic vote. But what happens next is not nearly as easy to forecast. The British and Irish governments are counting on the former enemies cooperating to end the region's political...
Flashback to 2004: it’s high election season and not a single Democrat can come up with a tenable solution to the already sinking war in Iraq. (Yeah John Kerry, 40,000 more troops will probably do the job.) Maybe if Ian Shapiro had written “Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror” a few years earlier, the United States wouldn’t be up to its elbows in dead soldiers without an exit strategy. “Containment” is both a forceful critique of current foreign policy and a prescriptive...
...world would keep spinning. Now, I’m all but an expert at the art of “bug catching,” an expression that stirs up more drama than the average land-dweller would think. “Islander,” writer-director Ian McCrudden’s latest project, chronicles the life of a lobster fisherman learning to accept the consequences of an act which tears his life apart. Although the film’s plot lacks narrative drive, the strong sense of place, quirky subject material, and solid acting carries the film from...
...agents around the country, six judges in the Granta magazine office narrowed the list of “America’s Best Young Novelists”—published in the magazine’s April edition—down to 21 authors under age 35, wrote Ian Jack, editor of the quarterly magazine and chair of the judging committee, in an e-mail. “Making a list of this kind is never a perfect art and every judge would have regrets about the omission of personal favorites,” Jack wrote...