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...born with a best friend. It's this feeling of security. You get excited that you have this other person; you do things together, rather than on your own." The emotional bonds of twindom are at the heart of 26a (Chatto and Windus; 230 pages), Evans' compelling first novel. And yet, as Evans knows all too well, there can be a dark side to twin magic. Her twin sister, Paula, suffered from depression and committed suicide in 1998. "Paula's death," says Evans, "made me focus on what I really wanted to do." What Evans really wanted...
...Bush believes the U.N. is important, picking Bolton is a novel way to show it. In 1994, Bolton declared that if the 39-floor U.N. headquarters in New York City "lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." In 2000 he told National Public Radio that if he were remaking the U.N. Security Council, he would give it not five permanent members but just one--the U.S.--"because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world." Bolton has insisted that international law has no validity because "those who think [it] really means...
Ian McEwan is a very successful novelist, but he hasn't let it go to his head. "Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry," he says evenly, stretching out his long frame on a sofa in his London town house. "And no one would deny the richness of their thoughts." Most of humanity probably won't read his new novel, Saturday (Doubleday; 289 pages), which arrives in stores next week. But the sizable part that does will gain definite advantages in the richness of its thinking about brain surgery, the war in Iraq, the psychic burden...
...Spooky” persona will appear in Miller’s to-be-released novel Flow My Blood the DJ Said, a takeoff of the classic Philip K. Dick novel Flow My Blood the Policeman Said, which examines the links between semiotics and the DJ culture. The name “Spooky” refers to the eerie interplay between the absence and presence of sound, whereas his “That Subliminal Kid” epithet refers to a character from William S. Burroughs’ Nova Express...
...however, remarkable in other ways. Right now Foer is the LeBron James of the literary world--young, preternaturally mature, enviably well compensated (he got a seven-figure advance for his last novel), and coming off a wildly successful rookie season. In 2002 his debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated, put him in the first rank of interesting young fiction writers. The movie version, starring Elijah Wood, is due out in August...