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...wait for the movie. Read The Crimson Petal and the White now, while it's still a living, laughing, sweating, coruscating mass of gorgeous words. Don't be put off by the setting--London, 1874--or the length, or that unfortunate, overlong stuffed shirt of a title. Don't worry about its author's ominously French-sounding name (Faber is actually a Scot by way of Holland and Australia). Ever since last fall readers have been watching for another knockdown, breakout book on the order of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. It's here...
...somebody say "features"? This 51-ft.-long, 74,000-lb. $489,000 monster lives to "process large volumes of wood waste to a fine uniform mulch," according to a sign at its 10-ft.-wide front bumper. And, baby, that includes every kind of wood waste up to full-length logs--as much as 150 tons an hour. Clearly, this ain't a tea party. This is Waste Expo 2002, the annual trade show and convention of the U.S. solid-waste industry...
...Apart from two squid fishermen preparing outriggers under the Gauguin sky, I couldn't see another soul along the length of the beach. It was almost impossible to imagine this tranquil sea, waveless and lambent with the day's dying glow, as a foaming cataract of devastation. And as the waiter glided off to fetch another drink, I remembered Jahrani's parting words: "We live on the edge of the fire here in Flores. We know death can come at any time, from the mountains or from the sea. So we must try to savor each day like...
...hard-up Trinidadian traveler in India in 1962. In the last essay he is venerable, addressing rubious generalities on such precepts as the Golden Rule to an august gathering at the Manhattan Institute in New York. His topic: "Our Universal Civilization." In the past, stuck for a book-length subject at home, he hoped to find it abroad as a reporter with a round-trip airfare. Except for one piece, all the essays here have appeared in print before, most in collections. But you can't blame Naipaul's publisher for hurrying a book out, even a recycled one with...
...wedding ritual can be as short as an hour, unlike typical Indian matrimonial affairs that can stretch for days. Village elders preside over the nuptials. The men in attendance are usually dressed in traditional regalia: embroidered turbans and knee-length black skirts, with intricately patterned ceremonial knives?called pichekathi?tucked into their belts. Weddings are informal and gifts are not necessary. But given the firearms and knives in abundance, take care not to offend your hosts...