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It’s worth noting that Malcolm herself was unsuccessfully sued for libel by the main subject of one of her nonfiction books. But other writers also make arguments like Malcolm??s. “My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests,” Joan Didion wrote. “And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody...
...War” is no “Catcher in the Rye.” Ares’ developmental transitions seem sudden and uninspired, and his experiences with puberty and teenage angst seem trite, almost cliché. After the story’s climax, when Ares covers for Malcolm??s fatal mistake, the novel’s narrative structure takes a dive. Years of Ares’ life are hastily, awkwardly summarized in a handful of pages, and Silver never fully explains the impact of Malcolm??s mistake on the two brothers and their relationship...
...Best known as Hal, the splenetic dad on “Malcolm in the Middle,” Cranston is a master of the slow-burning freak-out. Watching Cranston’s eyes well up with rage just before he inevitably snapped was one of “Malcolm??s” few reliable pleasures. With “Breaking Bad’s” premise, there should be plenty of those mad moments, right?Unfortunately, wrong. While Cranston gets a few interludes of maniacal glee, most of “Breaking Bad?...
There is, however, substantial foreshadowing of Malcolm??s future status as a civil rights icon. His dreamed encounters with Elijah Muhammad, though fantastic, add a spiritual depth to Malcolm??s destitution, and allow a glimpse into the coming years...
While Leo and Martha’s post coital conversations bear witness to their love, Malcolm??s statements about European reaction to the Chinese Civil War, or her summary of World War One, feel stilted and awkwardly placed, merely mechanisms to get the action moving again...