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...about Harvard, but rather one from that so-hot-right-now, sex-filled, “personal” variety. Darling at one point remarks that once “a good friend has asked which I would prefer—to be immortalized as a character in a novel, or to be cherished as a friend for life. A character, I said, of course.” Close up on Darling: when we meet her again in the narrative proper, she’s a 29-year-old reporter for the Washington Post by day, femme fatale by night...
...allowed such a war to break out and wishing that the army of Sierra Leone had appealed to another country or a worldwide organization for help when the war began. But such absences feel purposeful: By ignorning politics, Beah allows his story to transcend them. Writing as much a novel about ordinary life as war, Beah contrasts civilian and military life to define the two more precisely. He highlights the importance of family life and community in Sierra Leonean society, implying that the army had replaced his parents. He also emphasizes how deeply local culture penetrates his life...
...ending to a mystery novel—except one with no ending at all, only themes strewn about everywhere and an excessively long and unnecessary line of accusations made at an innocent and unknowing reader. It seems that in “Angelica,” the latest novel from Arthur Phillips ’90, the plot builds to such a point that there is nowhere to go but to a tragic stand-still. Perhaps that’s why he recycles the plot three times from the perspective of different characters, and then chooses to leave things...
...Lanka's northernmost city, and intensified after the killing of 13 soldiers in 1983. Fighting has gone on for so long now that it has brutalized an entire society, creating a culture of violence that haunts the country whether there is fighting or not. In his exquisitely written novel Anil's Ghost, set in an earlier phase of the conflict, Sri Lankan-born Michael Ondaatje describes the unnatural horrors that grip this tropical South Asian island of 21 million people. In Sri Lanka, Ondaatje writes, "the reason...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down