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...minor leaguers, benchwarmers and aging stars. Never has an American of top status been guilty of defection - and certainly no one like Ichiro who, with an exotic foot-in-the-air stance, has won an unprecedented seven-straight batting titles.) "It's a disaster in the making," says novelist and baseball writer Masayuki Tamaki. "Japan is losing all its heroes...
When I was living in Kyoto in the late '70s, Yasunari Kawabata was the most popular novelist among the American expatriates who were seeking a vision of a Japan untainted by foreign culture. Kawabata's aristocratic aesthetes, tea masters and geishas are the epitome of Flower Arranging Nation and some of his novels, to Western eyes, are more a series of beautiful tableaux than novels - too precious by half. His greatest works like Snow Country and House of Sleeping Beauties are haunting; more than any other Japanese author, Kawabata satisfies our appetite for strangeness and exoticism. Kawabata himself created...
...America's Best" will begin in July with an issue devoted to the Arts. The debates are already under way in the hallways, with staff members arguing best novelist (Toni Morrison? David Foster Wallace? Philip Roth?), best songwriter (Ani DiFranco? Lucinda Williams? Beck?), and best comedian (now there's a long list). Over the subsequent four months, we will focus on Science and Medicine; Culture and Society; Business and Technology; and Politics and Community. CNN will air five one-hour specials on the choices. By the time we finish in November, we will have a wonderfully eclectic list, from America...
...Ernest Hemingway also managed a certain amphibianism. He drank prodigiously at night, then had the discipline to rise in the morning and write for several hours before the sun crept toward the yardarm and it was time to drink again. The Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, a talented fanatic, would attend dinner parties until midnight, then go home and write until dawn. He died by ritual suicide in the midst of leading his private militia in a notably screwball coup attempt at a Japanese army headquarters...
...intricately structured screenplay by novelist Guillermo Arriaga keeps reverting, ever more intimately and horrifically, to that crash, not merely showing it as the major figures in three intertwined stories experience it but also letting us see their lives prior to and after the disaster that radically reshapes their fates. Inarritu, 37, who has made hundreds of TV commercials in Mexico City, consciously intends his movie to be a portrait of his "dangerous, beautiful" hometown. The film is muy espanol, a portrait that blends harsh realism with a curious tenderness. It is also muy Bunuel, but without his conscious surrealism...