Word: lust
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When I read Hong Kong Rose a few weeks ago, I recognized the places around the island that Xu Xi wrote about in her novel of transatlantic love, lust, and searching. Seeing it in fiction made Hong Kong more compelling to me and, paradoxically, more real...
...Saints, happily reach for the second, A Family Daughter, see that it's about the same family and prepare yourself for a sequel. Instead, what you get is the same saga, different narrative. Characters die in one book and not the other, have sex in one and suffer tormented lust in the other. Individually, each novel is well crafted and compulsively readable. Together, they're a meta-authorial head game that makes you rethink the nature of fiction and your attachments to it. I'm still not over them...
...world. If you want to lust after my characters, hey, I'm all in favor...
...sinful to lust after a fictional character? Margaret Smith FOLSOM, CALIF...
...Renaissance including art history, literary history, musical history, scientific history, and political, economic, and social history. Berenson would have preferred that the entire community be made up of critics and connoisseurs of art, but Harvard decided to make the center an interdisciplinary institute.“Research for the lust of research,” Berenson said a year before he died, “is not to be encouraged.” Berenson envisioned a humanistic institute that provided scholars with the opportunity to pursue long-term projects and intellectual interests and freed them from the urgent pressure...