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...first novel is published and while his writing has acquired only a few affectations, his interests appear to have grown soggy with much sitting around sloppy cafe tables in the so-called Latin (it should be called American) quarter of Paris. He has chosen to immortalize the semi-humorous love tragedy of an insatiable young English War widow and an unmanned U. S. soldier. His title is borrowed from Ecclesiastes; his motto about "a lost generation, is from Gertrude Stein; his widow Lady Brett Ashley, from Michael Arlen's Green Hat. She is repeatedly called "a nice piece...
Directed by Bennett MillerSony Pictures Classics4 StarsThe Harvard-immersed filmgoer should be uniquely equipped to appreciate the pathos of Bennett Miller’s new film, “Capote,” chronicling the time Truman Capote spent researching and writing his novel “In Cold Blood.” Haven’t we all encountered at least one remarkably talented but socially stunted genius like Capote? And what undergrad worth his Literature and Arts A requirement is not interested in a deconstruction of the literary process?If that weren’t enough, Miller directs...
...Despite Taylor’s plodding prose, his publicists have billed his novel, “Shadowmancer,” as another Harry Potter. Indeed, once readers break through the choppy surface of Taylor’s writing, the resonance with Rowling is hard to miss...
...along the Yorkshire coast in the 1700s, the novel depicts an evil cleric’s quest for world domination and the efforts of its three teen heroes to stop him. Taylor’s wicked paralysis-inducing beasts, called Varrigals, come at Taylor’s boy hero like the Death Eaters that attack Potter from Azkaban. And the underground caves, which set the scene for many of the battles, are reminiscent of the tunnels beneath Hogwarts, Potter’s boarding school. But though Taylor rolls out a host of fantastic and terrifying enemies, his inability to ground...
...with the magical power to call on the King at a moment’s notice and defeat the giant birds, dragons, and other beasts Demurral places in his path. That this mixture of the sacred and the occult is unsatisfying should come as no surprise. It returns the novel to that familiar, faith-testing question: if the King can defeat everything, how have his enemies gained such strength? (“His ways are not your ways, his thoughts are not your thoughts,” we are told. “Sometimes we can never understand...