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In-laws, at least according to stereotype, are seldom easy to deal with. But just imagine being 26, newly married, returned from a honeymoon and suddenly living under the same roof as your hubby's extended family - eight, all told, including a peppy sister-in-law who, you soon discover...
Unsettling hints accrue - of incest, narcotics and faked illnesses - and Noriko finds herself increasingly unable to avert her eyes and continue believing in her fairy-tale in-laws. Their cloying, plastic adulation begins to suffocate. Occasional outings with her blunt-spoken high school friend Tomomi, who enjoys a Sex and...
Venter's work is certainly exciting, but it is not the creation of life. It is the creation of a component of life. The genome does nothing unless it is inserted into a living cell. Richard Robertson, San Diego
Kunzru's My Revolutions stages the same dilemma more deftly in the story of ex-radical Chris Carver, who's living in deep cover in placid suburban England 30 years after his crew went on a bombing spree. Kunzru's theme is summed up in the circularity of the title...
The 1960s was a period of civil unrest, disillusionment, and violence. It was also the era of Arthur Penn, a television and film director best known for such classics as “Bonnie and Clyde.” Penn appeared at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last weekend for...