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A variety of plans for Middle East peace are in circulation. The Mitchell Report, authored by a former U.S. Senator, suggests several steps each side must take toward a lasting peace, while the Tenet plan, proposed by the CIA director, focuses on a reduction of violence. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah...
Eiji Miyake is searching for a father he's never met, whose name he doesn't know. To track Dad down, he considers using lies, truths, computers and guns; in the end his most effective weapon is a pizza. In Number9Dream (Random House; 400 pages), David Mitchell returns to a...
The book is better taken as an elusive study of reality through dreams-nine of them, to be almost precise-than a straightforward coming-of-age tale. To set the chimerical tone, Mitchell employs an intriguing narrative technique: when Miyake interacts with other characters, we "hear" the soliloquies of his...
I suppose one might ask to whom such things matter. Well, there is an obvious answer—to me! In selecting the last examples, I am still concentrating on those I chose not to include, doting on comparisons between Rebecca Luker and Julie Andrews, between Terrence Mann and Philip...
For the Americans and Israelis, the unpalatable reality may be that there's no prospect of a cease-fire without Arafat. But the Palestinian leader may not be strongly inclined to ease the confrontation now, having ridden back to center stage on the recent wave of violence. Turning on the...