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...Sticks and Stones," (Three Rivers Press; 128 pages; $14) looks, at first flip-through, like a kid's book. The illustrations are large, often taking up an entire page, and contain no dialogue. While even pre-literate children may be able to suss out the broad good vs. evil story, only more mature readers will recognize it as a pointed political parable. It portrays a giant rock creature, born of a volcano, awaking to a barren, grey world. Klutzy and unskilled, he takes command of a tribe of tiny laborers by virtue of his might. Still unsatisfied, he makes...
...Winton's novels, minor characters are often set adrift only to resurface in other works; here they overlap and metamorphose. The collection's most haunting figure, small-town crim and shark hunter Boner McPharlin, goes from being the sheepskin-coated kid glimpsed in Long, Clear View to the silent driving partner of the narrator of Boner McPharlin's Moll, who, decades later, returns from overseas to nurse him in a psychiatric hospital. At its best, the device creates a poetic sense of ribboning destiny. "Perhaps time moves through us," concludes the narrator of Aquifer, "and not us through...
...Kid? Re your report on the plight of fathers who are shut out of their children's lives by divorce or the legal system [Sept. 27]: The high divorce or separation rate for marriages in the European Union is well known. In a romantic situation, things develop very rapidly. You get to know and love each other, you marry after six months, and then comes the first baby. After all those developments, you find out that your partner isn't the right person, as you believed at the beginning. Don't know what to do? Divorce, of course. And then...
...poor kid,” Craig said. “He was taking a lot of [heat...
ONCE THE GREAT BLINKING BLUE unifier, television is now firmly in the niche business. After years of targeting pretty much every other group--women (Lifetime), young men (Spike TV), African Americans (BET) and insomniacs (C-SPAN--we kid!), it's inevitable that there would be a channel aimed specifically at gay and lesbian viewers. LOGO is scheduled to debut in 10 million to 15 million homes with digital cable in February, and is being touted by its creators as a cultural turning point. "It's a channel whose time has come," says Brian Graden, MTV and VH1's entertainment president...