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Alice Munro spins tales that show us, again and again, and with wondrous grace, how much can be done in a simple short story. Yet the 74-year-old Canadian does it by breaking every rule ever taught in a writing seminar, setting up a master class along the sidelines. Her latest--her 11th--collection of stories, The View from Castle Rock (Knopf; 349 pages), marks a departure from her usual examinations of women in rural Canada leaving home to remake their possibilities by drawing instead on family documents, historical records (from 19th century Scotland) and what feels like memoir...
...With the media industry going through tough times in places like the U.S., even a few Western journalists have made the leap. After finishing a master's degree in journalism at Northwestern, Melissa Bell, 27, pondered applying for jobs in the U.S. or returning to India, where she had interned at the Hindustan Times (circulation: 3.85 million). When that paper announced it was launching a new business daily in a content partnership with the Wall Street Journal, she jumped at the chance to be involved, despite her parents' and boyfriend's misgivings...
...Tezuka (1928-1989), has just released his single volume Ode to Kirihito (825 pages; $25). Best known for his stories on themes of the power of love and karmic justice, here Tezuka has created a sophisticated medical horror story, with so much perversity that it may permanently change the master's American reputation as the Japanese Walt Disney. Though it retains Tezuka's core interest in the karmic consequences of immoral behavior, in this particular book he seems to take a strange pleasure in depicting the worst of human nature. How else do explain scenes like a dog-faced former...
...always, Tezuka provides a master class in graphical storytelling. Mercifully printed in left to right format, Ode to Kirihito has many stunning sequences, including one where Dr. Urabe begins going mad. His body disappears and a wedge cleaves his head in two in a psychedelic sequence that wouldn't be out of place in a drug film of the same era. (Kirihito was originally serialized in 1970.) The design of Tezuka's pages endlessly varies in shape and flow to reflect the action of a sequence or a character's state of mind. He never shies away from crazy experimentation...
...heard the rustle of leaves, and a second later, I heard a thud, and he was lying there,” he said. “He was on his back.” The circumstances surrounding his fall are still unclear and Leverett House Master Howard Georgi said yesterday that he had no new information since Thursday. Rooms in the Leverett Towers typically have one large window that doesn’t open and at least one smaller window that can be cranked open. The smaller windows are each about two feet wide and four feet high. Snyder...