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It is important, however, that we recognize when we are being targeted by an advertising campaign, and few have been looking at the Modern Library's list in this light. Random House has been successfully keeping up the illusion that the 100 best list is a real news story by...
Bombing investigations can often take months of sifting tiny bits of debris to piece together who the suspects are, so the bureau was beaming that it had two key arrests just three weeks after the embassy attacks. The rest of the Administration was relieved as well. It hadn't been...
With his exquisite, jeweled miniatures, Gunesekera bears the same relation to a Rushdie that, say, his tiny, teardrop island does to multifarious India. He favors elliptical, charged fragments that show drifters caught between the "flat, newly built motorways" of England, "empty as the moon itself," and an island they can...
The Tennis Partner thus becomes an anguished case history about a sadness too many will recognize: one person sets about destroying himself with addiction, and another gets addicted to trying to help him. The black hole is only deepened when, as Verghese writes, you subscribe to the physician's illusion...
The Russian people have been lied to for centuries. Generations of Czars spun visions of a world that eventually proved to be an illusion. The communists, their ideology and the Soviet state turned out to be illegitimate as well. Little wonder that today's citizens are confused and distrustful, wondering...