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...everywhere in French movies, including two in the Cannes competition. In La Petite Lili, Claude Miller's summery adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, she disrupts the egos and libidos of all she meets. In François Ozon's Swimming Pool, she antagonizes and arouses older novelist Charlotte Rampling by sunbathing in the nude and bringing louts home to stay over. Neither film is a masterpiece, but both address the envy of old souls contemplating young flesh. Amid the cinematic dross, a jewel emerged: Sylvain Chomet's Les Triplettes de Belleville (Belleville Rendez-Vous). This animated feature, about...
...have his Latin American neighbors. But Europe's legions of Castro admirers, from politicians to artists, are increasingly siding with Payá, a phenomenon that could dampen European enthusiasm for travel to Cuba, which is often driven by the island's chic revolutionary cachet. Portugal's Nobel-prizewinning novelist, José Saramago, once a Castro admirer, wrote in a stinging editorial last month that "this is as far as I go" with Cuba's revolution. The E.U. has also postponed negotiation of a badly needed economic aid package for Cuba. At the same time, Payá - who like most Cuban...
...number of writers have agreed to present at these workshops, including novelist and Radcliffe Institute Fellow Zadie Smith, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language Patricia E. Powell, and expository writing program Preceptor Joshua Barkan...
...Grass in his home village of Behlendorf, a place of neat, brick-built farms an hour's drive from the city of Hamburg, whose elegant solidity looks rooted in the ages. In truth, Hamburg is a phoenix. In 1943, wrote the German novelist W.G. Sebald in On the Natural History of Destruction, a set of 1997 lectures recently translated into English, the British bombed Hamburg so heavily that a fire storm "lifted gables and roofs from buildings, tore trees from the ground and drove human beings before it like living torches." The absence of any body of literature discussing...
CRITIQUE In a quickie book for the intelligentsia, novelist and essayist Norman Mailer challenges Bush's war aims and the patriotic impulses they engendered...