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...resistance story,” recounting the tale of two travelers who encounter, and later flee, a viciously despotic ruler not too different from Hitler himself. In Ryan’s view, however, the gory but gorgeous detail lavished upon the so-called villains of the novel uses the “aestheticization of violence” to glorify barbaric sadism...
...HUMAN ANIMAL IS A BIZARRE BEAST. HAVING popularized pet yoga, doggie "bark mitzvahs" and other novel anthropomorphisms, animal lovers keep blurring the lines between man and his animal-kingdom friends. And sometimes the animals do the blurring. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...determined in the Federal Magistrates Court, it happens most often when parents agree between themselves to try it. Recent research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies suggests that some 6% of separated parents use shared care - and that it's parents more than judges who conceive of more novel and mutually satisfying contact arrangements...
...most of McEwan's work. Among his generation of British writers--Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie--McEwan always stood out as the one with the morbid streak. His early short stories brought to nasty behavior and abnormal psychology the full resources of literary nuance. Then came his first novel, The Cement Garden, in 1978, about four children who have buried their mother in the basement. In The Comfort of Strangers, published three years later, a listless young couple on holiday find themselves in the clutches of a suavely murderous host. The film version was written by Harold Pinter...
...contented side of the neurosurgeon comes from the man who imagined him. At 56, McEwan swings up and down the stairs of his house with the ease of a man who still does his share of hiking, a passion of his. He has a Booker Prize for his 1998 novel Amsterdam, and several of his novels, including The Comfort of Strangers and Enduring Love, have beenturned into pretty good films. Moreover, judging from his descriptions of Perowne's marital bliss--"What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife"--McEwan's eight-year marriage must...