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...read, quoting a widow speaking to her dying daughter. “We bleed—demons never.” Ultimately, however, the reading transformed into a reminder of the transcendent power of love. Gloria I. Montiel ’09, who has read Morrison’s novel “Beloved” 12 times, said she thought the author’s message, a theme present in many of her books, is also in line with Faust’s desire to reach out to members of the Harvard community in a “quest...
Denis Johnson could not have chosen a more fitting title for his newest novel, “Tree of Smoke.” The novel is nearly as thick as a tree, reaching the epic length of 614 pages. And those hundreds of pages seem to contain nothing more than smoke.While each sentence, each paragraph, and each page is unapologetically lyrical and unabashedly grand, with a pronounced biblical undercurrent that promises depth, the work lacks substance, lacks true cohesion—lacks whatever it is that makes a work captivating, wonderful, or enjoyable.Despite its promise and its moments of greatness...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down
...ceiling of the tent inside the Louvre's Cour Carre, where Marc Jacobs was showing his spring 2008 collection for Louis Vuitton, was lined with giant pulp-romance-novel covers featuring lurid titles like Taipei After Dark and louche images of pinup girls in trashy lingerie. When 12 curvy models strutted onto the runway dressed in opaque white nurses' coats and prim white hats, their mouths covered with black-lace face masks, the audience might have imagined it was witnessing a 3-D rendition of artist Richard Prince's famous nurse-paintings series. And indeed, the real point...
...director: show what you've seen. Ben Affleck has been living in the tabloids for so long, it might seem as if he had been born there. But no, he's a Boston kid, and for his debut in the auteur sweepstakes, he wisely chose a Dennis Lehane suspense novel set in the down-and-dirty Boston suburb of Dorchester...