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...novel, fast-paced and punctuated by the self-effacing wit of disguised autobiography, reads like a screenplay—but one that we have seen already. A talented attorney at one of London’s largest law firms, Williams has his life rattled by the appearance of a ne’er-do-well school friend from Ireland. Geordie literally shows up on Danny’s doorstep with ?50,000 in stolen money and intentions of staying with him long enough to avoid the Loyalist militia types who are after their money...
Filled with sentences cut like bait, Laird’s novel is really just the facts. And still, it drags...
...beginning of the 1990s, early "math rock" artists (many of whom were, unsurprisingly, total nerds) rebelled against the self-imposed stylistic limitations of the punk/hardcore quartet while maintaining its traditional instrumental makeup. Underground bands like Slint, Don Caballero, Polvo, and Drive Like Jehu started to incorporate new meters, novel forms and increased technical virtuosity into their music, resulting in an appropriately neo-Baroque sound. Hearing the Advantage, who play a role in this scene, perform Nintendo songs, but one could easily mistake their music for early Shellac instrumentals, revealing the fundamental affinities between the styles.Of course, the links of influence...
...sensation of state-owned TV in Russia is an 87-year-old dissident with a juicy backstory. A mini-series based on ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN'S once banned 1968 anti-Soviet novel, First Circle, attracted 15 million viewers a night, beating out even a broadcast of Terminator 3. After being imprisoned by Stalin, exiled to Vermont and triumphantly welcomed home in 1994, the reclusive writer has not always been in the forefront of Russians' hearts. Dismissed as pass, he endured the indignity of seeing his talk show canceled because of low ratings. But the success of the mini-series, for which...
Narrated by an aged Briony, the novel expertly alternates between different characters’ perspectives, delicately yet incisively, delving into the psyches of the wronged and war-bound Robbie and his faithful Cecilia, of a young impetuous Briony and her repentant older counterpart—the wartime nurse who abandons her intellectual pursuits and undergoes “a stripping away of identity” as penance for her crime...