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With Penn standing at 8-1 and Dartmouth at 7-2, Harvard still has a distant shot at the title. If the Crimson does storm back to a perfect second half, some may lament the lack of a league tourney to determine the champion...
This makes one appreciate Hugo Whittier, the narrator and quasi-hero of Kate Christensen's remarkable novel The Epicure's Lament (Doubleday; 351 pages), all the more. At 40, Hugo is a lazy, handsome, brilliant, bitter, unscrupulous trust-fund dilettante who--having failed miserably as a drug dealer, gigolo and writer--is rattling around his ancestral mansion in upstate New York, waiting to die. Hugo is a coldhearted bastard, or he likes to think he is, and he spews hilariously venomous bile on anyone who comes within range. He is also a snob, a genuine sophisticate who sits around musing...
There are two kinds of monsters: those with hearts of gold and those that turn out to have no heart at all. You'll have to wait till the end of The Epicure's Lament to find out which one Hugo is. But as with all monsters, bad or secretly good, the pain he inflicts on others is only the outward expression of a greater hell within. --By Lev Grossman
...Bows are cinematic—thick, sweeping layers of piano, guitar and organ produce compelling vignettes that dwarf the simplicity of lyrics. Hamilton Leithauser’s vocals glide and soar behind a scratchy veil, adding poignancy to the mundane actions and thoughts he sings about. On break-up lament “The North Pole,” he sounds on the verge of shattering as he howls, “Everybody knows / That’s the way it goes.” But the childlike “New Year’s Eve” finds...
...incentives that are eventually shrunken down or simply taken away, the state should get out of business's way," scolds Lenoir, a proud economic liberal who thinks France's conservative government has the right reformist idea - but may lack the political courage to impose it fully. Lenoir's lament is common among French small-business owners, who form a massive economic chorus. Ninety-nine percent of France's 2.5 million businesses employ fewer than 50 people - yet they still make up 53% of the labor market. Despite Lenoir's major gripes with France's labor strictures and tax regimes...