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...which won enthusiastic reviews in the U.S. this summer, is now being published in Britain with greater fanfare and a more appetizing title, The Uninvited. It is the first book written in English by Yan, a Shanghai-born novelist (The Lost Daughter of Happiness) whose stories inspired director Joan Chen's 1998 art-house hit Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl. Yan emigrated to the U.S. after the 1989 Beijing crackdown and now lives in San Francisco, where she is a leading figure in China's post-Tiananmen literary diaspora. Others include best-selling novelists like Ha Jin (Waiting...
...JOAN BURKE...
Informed conciliators have recently become more vocal. Stanford University biologist Joan Roughgarden has just come out with Evolution and Christian Faith, which provides what she calls a "strong Christian defense" of evolutionary biology, illustrating the discipline's major concepts with biblical passages. Entomologist Edward O. Wilson, a famous skeptic of standard faith, has written The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, urging believers and non-believers to unite over conservation. But foremost of those arguing for common ground is Francis Collins...
...Fisher has a whole lot of initials. She uses them to cook and write, and sometimes she writes about cooking. On the cover of this anthology she also holds a cat. The works have been “gathered,” like fresh herbs from the garden, by Joan Reardon. It’s even got one of those pen and ink David Levine cartoons on the front. This book is a New York Review of Books circle-jerk...
...working on an exhibition called ‘Solitaire,’ which focuses on three painters who came of age in New York City during the 1960s: Lee Lozano, Joan Semmel, and Sylvia Plimack Mangold,” Molesworth said. “It is very much a project that stems from my interest in the oxymoronic category of feminist painting...