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...Everyman,” deals explicitly with a character taking stock of his life beginning at his own funeral. In “Indignation,” Roth explores, albeit in a few sentences, the most interesting aspect of Marcus’s story—the idea of the naked consciousness revisiting life after the death of the body, in utter solitude. It seems as fitting an oar as any, but Roth has other plans in the end.Marcus’s consciousness is the result of all his life’s past experiences, and Marcus remains defiantly...
...said in an interview yesterday that congressional attitudes toward endowments have shifted since Grassley first floated the idea of payout legislation...
...seriousness, what’s so funny about France’s request to recognize its cuisine as a world treasure? Why does the idea of an organization whose mission is to convince UNESCO that French cuisine deserves a title seem borderline preposterous? Why did last week’s French Mission for Food Heritage and Cultures’ strategizing session seem to lack any grip on reality? Elaine Sciolino, a New York Times reporter covering the event, wrote, “By the time the roasted figs, the wine-macerated prunes, the chocolate mousse and the Earl Grey sorbet...
...them, ‘Do you believe this?’” Hammer believes that because the actors were not given a concrete set of lines to memorize, the intimidation of being in front of the camera was largely eliminated. “They welcomed the idea that I truly wanted their voices,” he said. “There is nothing more powerful than authorship, a sense of ownership.” In a move consciously contrary to typical Hollywood filmmaking styles that stress linearity, Hammer constructed his film’s narrative around what...
...America, the idea of modern genocide is a surreal collage—distorted and unreal, comprised primarily of memoirs about the Holocaust or Khmer Rouge, and pieced together and shaded with the green of “Save Darfur” T-shirts. But in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s “Senselessness,” genocide—real genocide—is far from this abstract idea; it’s rooted in gritty details. Moya does not try to understand “genocide,” but rather examines the notion of genocide...