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...could pull any number of profound threads from Laird’s novel: that nostalgia is better left in the past, that anxiety only makes us anxious, that personal choices are inhibited by societal forces. But begin pulling at these threads and the whole novel unravels into a light farce on office life in London...

Author: By Casey N. Cep, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Lawyer Helps Friend, Saves Day­—Again | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...these awkward but poignant episodes are overwhelmed by the preposterous plot. For more than just the facts, try Laird’s first volume of poems “To a Fault,” or, better still, try his wife Zadie Smith’s debut novel “White Teeth...

Author: By Casey N. Cep, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Lawyer Helps Friend, Saves Day­—Again | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...least it’s written by Richard Price, who wrote the scripts for “Clockers,” “Shaft,” and adapted his own novel for this film. He knows his shit...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freedomland | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...might have been an interesting character in a novel. Not here. As questions about Brenda’s sanity continue to mount, a discerning viewer of crap-tacular melodrama will remember Moore’s similar role (child is abducted and no one is sure that the mother is telling the truth about the abduction) in the Roth-produced “The Forgotten.” But that abduction was done by aliens. There are no aliens here. Just Moore’s shaky Jersey accent...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freedomland | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

When M.L. Malcolm graduated from Harvard Law School, she went forth into the real world to be an attorney. Oh, how the years go by and things change. Now, Malcolm is a freelance journalist and the author of “Silent Lies,” a novel that follows the far-flung exploits of a protagonist burdened by dark secrets. She recently spoke over the telephone with The Crimson...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Malcolm Follows Dream of Writing | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

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