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...movies. The Other Boleyn Girl is based on the Philippa Gregory novel that wove the melodrama of Henry's rule into a bodice-ripping yarn. Not that the known facts aren't salacious enough: the King's impatience with his wife, Catherine of Aragon, in providing him with a male heir; his divorce of Catherine to marry Anne; his break with the Pope over the divorce and his establishment of the Anglican Communion as his own personal church. With all this as backdrop, Gregory foregrounded scenes of calumny and chicanery, of paternal pimping and near-incest, to create an international...
...from the suburbs. Meanwhile, Broadway audiences have been growing steadily more diverse in recent years; according to Theater League figures, about 26% of all Broadway theatergoers last season were non-Caucasian, a record high. One big reason was The Color Purple, the hit musical based on Alice Walker's novel of the same name, backed by the seemingly unstoppable Oprah Winfrey...
MODERN ROMANCEThis sparkling first novel, Beginner's Greek, starts with a couple who meet cute. Then James Collins (a former TIME editor) deftly keeps them apart in a most satisfying...
...Culture novels (there are eight of them) are about the challenges of a world in which thinking beings must deal with one another across vertiginous gulfs of cultural and technological difference--a world, in other words, both completely different from and identical to our own. In Matter (Orbit; 593 pages), Banks' first Culture novel since Look to Windward, one of those technological gulfs opens up within a family: Djan Seriy is born into a royal clan on a backwater planet, but she is recruited into the Culture. Her brother Ferbin remains behind on their primitive home world. (Which is, incidentally...
...it’s tough.”Of course, even if these student spaces are successful in attracting a larger group of students, they risk losing the cachet of being underground. Sellars’ once revolutionary use of the Adams pool doesn’t seem so novel anymore. It’s now an established venue, like the Loeb or Agassiz.Yet for students like Jacoby, much of this is irrelevant.“Whatever an indie badge-of-honor is, I don’t think the Press is much interested in keeping it,” Jacoby...