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...this situation sounds ridiculous to you, you’re not alone. Leading academics in fields as diverse as biology, computer science, and law have spoken out and taken action for “open access” which includes novel publishing models that do not set up barriers to access, models where neither Wiley nor Elsevier nor even the American Chemical Society restricts the dissemination of academic research...
Graham Swift has a secret. Lots of them, actually. In seven novels and a collection of stories, he has developed a knack for measuring out his revelations in coffee spoons, saving the best for last. Of course, Swift has a shelf full of other knacks, some nicked from Dickens, Hardy, Flaubert and other 19th century greats. Together, these skills have made him one of Britain's most celebrated novelists. But his latest, Tomorrow, is a model of delayed gratification. That's what makes it so infuriating. Like his other novels, Tomorrow deals with sex, death, betrayal, history, intergenerational conflict, love...
MICHAEL CHABON'S NEW NOVEL is a Raymond Chandler-- style pulp mystery set in a bizarro alternate universe where (as supposedly really almost happened) Alaska, not Israel, was designated as the Jewish homeland. Your hero is Meyer Landsman, a drunk and divorced detective working the case of a murdered drug-addicted Hasidic chess prodigy. As premises go, this one is half-baked, hard-boiled and frozen solid all at the same time...
...shows these days: stories of misfits or underdogs who prove their worth in spite of the odds. Hairspray revolves around a zaftig high school dance whiz who fights for racial integration and fat-girl power in 1962 Baltimore. The Color Purple, the Oprah-produced musicalization of Alice Walker's novel, is the uplifting story of an African-American girl's journey from abused teen to empowered adult. The action hero of the new musical The Pirate Queen is a female fighter for Irish independence. Even in shows in which the gender balance is more equal, such as Spring Awakening...
...smell prevented me from resuming my nap, I half-heartedly picked up the romance novel I’d purchased on the way out, and pretended to read. When all manner of wiping and discarding had ceased, I thought I was home free, until, of course just my luck, “24D” decided he was going to make things up to me by engaging in conversation. Fuck...