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...wing and nationalist parties - which together form the main opposition to Erdogan's government - mobilized, bringing tens of thousands of sympathizers onto the streets of several cities, including Ankara. These protests grabbed attention in Turkey, but it was the case brought by a state prosecutor against the world-renowned novelist Orhan Pamuk in August that generated outrage beyond the country's borders. The charge against Pamuk - that he insulted Turkey's good name by discussing the mass killings of Armenians and Turkey's Kurdish conflict in an interview with a Swiss newspaper - carries a possible three-year sentence. (In practice...
...informant with a sideline in purloined celebrity X-rays ("A colonoscope of Ana Belén? It's yours. Plates of Julio Iglesias' prostate? You'll have 'em.") Reig's gumshoe has an unusual specialty: finding fictional characters who take on a life of their own, a hazard any novelist would recognize. That's what brings Luís María Peñuelas, a writer of popular westerns, into Clot's office seeking help. Mabel Martínez, heroine of Penuelas' latest work in progress, has escaped from the pages, Roger Rabbit-style, in apparent despair over...
...would expect of Jeff Daniels. In Squid, though, viewers' laughs turn to gasps and back again as Bernard tries simultaneously to discipline and dazzle his sons. Linney is superb, and the kid actors are scary-good. But it is selfish, flailing Dad who wins the match. As the underloved novelist, Daniels has created his masterpiece. --Reported by Steven Frank/Toronto
Friday, Oct. 21. “Frank J. Webb: Fiction, Essays, Poetry.” Cabot Professor of English Werner Sollors discusses the work of the titular mid-18th century African-American novelist. 3 p.m. Harvard Book Store...
...animator and graphic novelist with a few other books behind him (all in French, including another travelogue, Shenzhen, about his time in China) Delisle's drawings have a lively cartoonish quality and an elegant, easy-to-read design. The black and white artwork has been done mostly in pencil, with soft shading, capturing a grayed out world devoid of color. His simplified characters inhabit more detailed environments, in the classic European bandes dessinee style, but with Delisle's own spin. Visual jokes also lighten up the grim totalitarian atmosphere. One panel imitates a Sunday comics puzzle, depicting a police lineup...