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Nancy Rawles, who won an American Book Award for her 1998 novel, Love Like Gumbo, has built her latest book, My Jim, upon this controversial character. “Upon,” and not “about,” is the right word: Rawles takes Jim less as the subject than as the starting point of a narrative dominated by the strong-willed women who tell it. In fact, although the book jacket proclaims My Jim a “nuanced critique of the great American novel,” it makes little direct contact with Twain?...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Huck Finn Redux Probes Jim's Past | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Early in Twain’s novel Huck laments “how dismal regular and decent” his life with Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas has become. His complaint could serve as a harsh but not wholly inaccurate description of Rawles’ book. Rawles­—or perhaps those marketing her—seem to have failed to recognize that the moral complexities My Jim purports to expose are already present in Huck’s own narrative. While Rawles has provided a reasonably interesting supplement to Twain’s book...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Huck Finn Redux Probes Jim's Past | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Legislators have often gone overboard in trying to curb citizens' behavior, but reality eventually sets in. Now, even as some state legislatures repeal their centuries-old bans on Sunday liquor sales, other lawmakers are trying novel ways of cracking down on leisurely lewdness and lollygagging. Here are some of the latest no-nos legislators have been drafting. --By Jeremy Caplan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nixing Droopy Drawers | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

...stereo. But there's a catch: to make your music mobile, first you'll need to move it from your home PC to your cell phone, and that means you'll need a phone with lots of storage space for music. Still, iRadio--due in the fall--is a novel alternative to the iPod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Gadget World | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...boat from Japan, over the course of twenty years. Each takes a Western name, Henry, Fred, Frank and Charlie, and each has different goal. Henry, the author's surrogate, wants to study art, giving the story a personal verisimilitude that makes "Four Immigrants" not only the first graphic novel, but the first autobiographical graphic novel as well. But the two characters who quickly take the book's center are the ne'er-do-well Charlie and Frank, the budding capitalist. Continually rebuffed in their efforts to earn money, Charlie, the tall, lanky one who spouts aphorisms, and Frank, the short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to America | 2/19/2005 | See Source »

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