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...Blount Jr., a literary humorist in the Twain tradition, to put the author in perspective. In his essay, Roy plumbs Twain's deeply contrarian nature and his abiding sadness and even bitterness at what he saw as collective human folly. For Twain's influence on race relations, we asked novelist and scholar Stephen L. Carter to address Twain's views on slavery and African Americans. There have been few books more controversial in U.S. history than Huck Finn, but Carter concludes that the novel is profoundly antislavery and that Twain pioneered the sophisticated literary attack on racism. The cover package...
Disputes have a way of reverberating for a long time among London's insular but closely monitored literary set. The latest - and surely not the last - salvo in the most heated current contretemps of the chattering classes has now come from novelist Ian McEwan. He has found it necessary, once again, to declare that Martin Amis, his friend and a fellow giant of English letters, is "not a racist...
Letts' writing inspirations have ranged from Tennessee Williams to Oklahoma noir novelist Jim Thompson--and, not least, his own stage roles. "Acting teaches me so much about theater," he says. "I played George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in Atlanta. That's a play I have known intimately my whole life. But until you really crawl inside of it and see how it works, it's not part of you. I know I'm a better playwright as a result of acting." He has returned the favor; August provides 13 juicy roles for the members of Steppenwolf...
...within our cells. We remember them, if at all, as blobs in cell diagrams from biology class. But, by controlling cell differentiation, movement, death and growth, they are crucial to keeping us alive. And in the surreal, over-the-top and often unintentionally humorous biomedical horror Parasite Eve, Japanese novelist Hideaki Sena depicts them as sentient beings - so indignant over our indifference that they want to wipe us out and take over the world. Of course the notion is far-fetched, but the endosymbiotic theory of mitochondria, which posits that the organelles evolved from ancient bacteria, provides Sena's gruesome...
...released in 1997, the seven-part series has sold more than 375 million copies. Translated into more than 64 languages, including Latin, the novels have spawned a crazed international following that has made Rowling—once a poor, single mother writing on napkins—the highest-earning novelist in history...