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...Obviously, a strong finish in the fall is a good sign for the spring,” Tucker added, “but there’s a lot of in-between time, so they’re really separate...
...psyched up for a case and then he was sort of hoping to have it all done with today,” he said of Okhotin. “In reality it’s going to be a long, drawn-out process. If there’s this in-between fudging decision...you have to sort of get off the principled position and just rationally go to the States, finish school, get on with your life...
...where the literati distinguish condescendingly between "pure" literature and fiction for the masses. Highbrow novelists compete for the tony Akutagawa Prize. Their down-market brethren wrestle over the Naoki Prize. Murakami, 53, has won neither (he has garnered lesser awards, including the Gunzo for debut novels.) "Murakami's work is in-between," explains Mitsuyoshi Numano, a literature professor at the University of Tokyo. "If a writer pursues high-quality literature, the book doesn't sell." Murakami's latest novel, Kafka on the Shore, has thus cast him into further disfavor with Japan's guardians of aesthetic integrity. Published in September...
...Kashmiris are a people in-between, stuck in the vise of a vicious, intractable geopolitical mess, and even when they leave, their fate sometimes follows. Syed Shahnaaz Qadiri decided to move out of Kashmir four years ago. His choice was to go to another state, where the school years start and end on time and students aren't afraid to walk to class. But Qadiri is a Kashmiri Muslim. He chose a college near Ahmadabad, the main city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Two months ago, a mob of Muslims torched a train carriage near Ahmadabad, killing...
Montgomery never shies away from important issues and never takes the easy way out in dealing with them. With a few deft strokes, he manages to compress every in-between shade of gray into the dialogue and actions of his characters. Like the state of the world it reflects, good and evil are not always so clear-cut. Part of Hank’s journey of growth entails understanding and dealing with that realization...