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In his dazzling 2000 debut, Ghostwritten, David Mitchell gave us what could be called the first novel of the 21st century, a truly global work of fiction that set stories in Japan, China, London, New York City and elsewhere and somehow wove them into a single tale about the transmigration...
The ghosts that possess Mitchell--James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Martin Amis--are sturdy ones, and this master of voices knows science and generic utopian Asia, Steven Spielberg and British misanthropy. His language crackles with texture and bite: "Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman" and "[the...
Yet brilliance, famously, can become an end in itself, and at times Mitchell seems to leave the rest of humanity behind. His visionary flights are more striking than their targets (colonialism, preachers, corporations), and when he cannot get the language quite down--as in a sequence set in 1975 California...
Meanwhile, Penn coach Al Bagnoli was expressing his consternation at being picked number one in the preseason Ivy media poll. While Bagnoli has every right to be pleased, he really shouldn’t be shocked. Although the Quakers lost each of their five all-Ivy offensive linemen, their quarterback...
DIED. WILLIAM MITCHELL, 92, food scientist who accidentally invented Pop Rocks, the exploding candy that burst onto the market in 1975; in Stockton, Calif. During 35 years as a chemist for General Foods, he patented more than 70 inventions, including concoctions that led to the development of Cool Whip, quick...