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...outlet. I just wanted something that didn’t involve depending on other people, that could come out of my own head.”The product of Dovey’s imagination, “Blood Kin,” was a much different work, a dark modern-day fable about the people who become complicit in propping up a new corrupt regime in the aftermath of a political coup. Set in an unnamed country and told through alternating first-person narration, Dovey’s novel identifies its characters only by their relation to the deposed...
...most memorably, their distinctive sandals, often just a pair of leather soles strapped to the feet with leather guards to protect the shins. Back then, gladiator sandals served a practical purpose, but today?nearly 2,000 years later?they cater to a very different crowd, turning up at modern-day spectacles (think movie premieres and nightclub sorties) for purely sartorial purposes. In recent seasons, the fashion flock has adopted the tough footwear as its own form of armor. The style has proved an able antidote to a flowery dress for Sarah Jessica Parker and helped Mary-Kate Olsen bring...
Reviled and admired, envied and feared, Babylon - the remains of which lie some 50 miles (80 km) south of modern-day Baghdad - has for centuries been shrouded in myth. Despite its description by Greek historians as a center of political power, the fables tend to overshadow any sense of what the city was actually like. "Everyone knows the name and the legends of Babylon," says Francis Joannès, a professor of ancient history and Mesopotamia at the Sorbonne. "But what people don't necessarily know is its reality...
...title character Penelope Wilhern, played by Christina Ricci, seems to have it all. As the daughter of blue-blood aristocrats, she has money, charm, and a horde of suitors flocking to her door. Oh yeah, she also has a pig nose. “Penelope” is a modern-day fairy tale in an image-obsessed world that actually teaches girls to love themselves the way they are. Penelope is heir not only to the family fortune, but to the family curse, as well, doomed to sport a pig nose until she finds true love. To hide her daughter?...
...sure, and has no way of really knowing, whether the Lemba's ancestors left Jerusalem simultaneously with the Ark (assuming, of course, that it left at all). However, he has a theory as to where they might eventually have converged. Lemba myth venerates a city called Senna. In modern-day Yemen, in an area with people genetically linked to the Lemba, Parfitt found a ghost town by that name. It's possible that the Lemba could have migrated there from Jerusalem by a spice route - and from Senna, via a nearby port, they could have launched the long sail down...