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...aback at seeing a couple having sex on Avenue Kleber en plein air on their street-facing balcony. For the first couple of weeks in Paris, each time I saw a couple kissing on the street, I was reminded of the morning a man shouted “Excusez moi!” and then “Regardez!” before proceeding to show me something I surely did not want to “regard.” Try as I might to turn away, the amorous French couples seem to shout, “Excuse...
...somehow convey the damage he sustained in terms that a child of the prosperous American future can understand. (I'm doubly well-disposed toward House of Meetings because the hero - the narrator's saintly brother - is named Lev, an unusual choice which I accept as an homage a moi.) I reached Amis by phone in Philadelphia, where his book tour has taken him. We chatted about House of Meetings, the ego of the novelist, the boredom of good characters, and why the English hate writers...
...will see a vibrant nation light-years away from the war and poverty that once plagued its people. More than half of Vietnam's 84 million people are younger than 30, born after what people here call the "American War." They are the children of two decades of "doi moi" (renewal), a program of economic reforms that has cut poverty from more than 60% in the early 1990s to less than 20% today. Vietnam now has Asia's fastest-growing economy outside of China, with exports up 24% this year. And like China before it, the country is betting that...
Most great writers have a knack for bringing their characters to life. But only Ngugi wa Thiong'o could write a character so convincing he almost gets arrested. In 1986, while the author's native Kenya was suffocating under President Daniel arap Moi's oppressive rule, Ngugi wrote Matigari, a novel whose eponymous hero travels the country protesting against the regime. Because [an error occurred while processing this directive] Matigari posed questions Kenyans were afraid to ask, they talked about him as if he were real, the way soap-opera fans and comic-book lovers do. "The regime thought there...
...death squad claims are not far-fetched. Maj. Markos told TIME his men have previously "encountered unauthorized MOI elements" in Adhamiya conducting illegal "snatch-and-grab-type activities." He says, "The bottom line is I can't tell you definitely [what started last week's battle]. But nothing is black and white here and I would be lying to say the MOI is never here." He adds, "We're definitely going to look into" the charges of death-squad involvement. Intelligence officer Brandon admits the fusion of legitimate government forces with militia is a problem. "So many players are tied...