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...books seem modest in scope, their power lies in the way he sculpts calamity into catharsis. His novel In the Wake is a raw portrait of grief based on the tragedy of Petterson's adult life: the death of his parents and two brothers in a ferry accident. The opening of Out Stealing Horses climaxes in a scene in which a 10-year-old boy accidentally shoots and kills his twin brother. The event stops your heart, but Petterson's lyrical prose pulls you forward...
...Siberia is rougher around the edges. The precipitating horror--the narrator's grandfather hangs himself--creates a strangely shallow impression. But what the story lacks in polish, it makes up for in mood. Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a northern landscape painting--all shafts of light and clear, palpable chill. The narrator and her brother Jesper grow up in this setting, on a farm in Denmark in the 1930s. Distant from their parents, they find happiness in each other, and as the narrator grows from tagalong sister to adolescent, Petterson gives their relationship a delicate physical dimension...
Courses at Chief Dull Knife are similar to those at any community college--English, history, math--but with a unique Northern Cheyenne flavor. Reading includes books like Cheyenne Autumn, a highly praised 1953 novel about the tribe's 1878-79 return to Montana after exile in Oklahoma. History classes teach America as experienced by both whites and Native Americans. Part of the curriculum is devoted to Northern Cheyenne culture and its complex language, which is still spoken by a few elders but almost no students. For decades, reservation schools were strictly English-only. The chairman of the Dull Knife board...
...TIME published planet Earth: An Illustrated History, a captivating visual journey of the world's sciences and unending beauty. Earth is for the living, said Jefferson, and this book is for you. And speaking of books, congratulations to TIME contributor and former correspondent Aravind Adiga, whose astonishing first novel about India, The White Tiger, won this year's Man Booker Prize...
...prosecutor charged with the murder of a female colleague/lover is getting all the buzz. Snider requests a copy, reads it in one day, pitches it, writes a synopsis, and ends up pitching it again to a studio head, who recognizes her taste and drive. The book becomes the bestselling novel “Presumed Innocent,” the film adaptation stars Harrison Ford, and Snider becomes much more than a secretary.Snider, who is known for her reliable intuition, has learned by now what makes a good film, both commercially and artistically.“You have to have...