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Skip it, and go instead for Kuper's far more interesting adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel "The Jungle" (NBM; 48 pages; $16). When first published, its exposure of the Chicago meatpacking industry's outrageous conditions created a scandal that resulted in the passage of the Pure Food and...
Jurgis stands in the shadow of death in Peter Kuper's adapatation of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
In rendering Sinclair's vision, Kuper uses the full power of his graphic style to remarkable effect. His airbrush effect implicitly evokes a sense of violence or sex gone wild, which perfectly matches the blood and sweat of the Chicago slaughterhouses. In the fertilizer factory, for instance, he makes it...
One only wishes it were longer. The circumscribed length of Kuper's version of "The Jungle" dispenses with much of the minor character development - so much so that it gets a bit confusing. It also lacks the details of atrocity that made each of Sinclair's chapters seem like a...
The story of Abdullah Akoh provides a chilling window into just how young men are "lured away." A 31-year-old ustaz, Abdullah is being held in a military hospital, recovering from bullet wounds received when shooting dead a soldier in July. He says that as a boy he was...