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Phoebe Gloeckner is one of comix' most challenging artists. The company contracted to print her last book, "A Child's Life," refused to do it. The subsequent printer would only work on it at night with a staff who had read the book and did not object to it. With its raw, uncompromising tales of a young girl's experiences with sex, drugs, and neglect, told in a devastatingly clinical style, "A Child's Life" was a highlight of 1990s graphic literature. Gloeckner has since mostly dedicated herself to creating a single, book-length project. Finally arriving in November...
...Awake from a dignified on-bar catnap to find things have become inexplicably dark. The circuit breaker has been turned off and people are carrying flashlights. We start to load out the equipment in the surreal black. I carry one turntable and it’s the heaviest object I’ve ever carried. I move it into the car and take a nap on CBGB’s upstairs couch...
...solitary traveler wanders aimlessly, love-sick and world-weary, every object and place reminding him of his lost love and impending death. Such is the stuff of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, surely the most beloved of song-cycles and one of the greatest challenges a singer can take on. The marriage of Wilhelm Müller’s 24 poems and Schubert’s evocative music is one of the defining moments of German Romanticism. It takes a singer with just the right amount of assuredness and vulnerability to pull it off successfully...
...also Vietnam in all its luscious beauty?a precious fruit the West has to get its hands on, to devour and defile. In The Quiet American, Phuong is as much metaphor as flesh. Yet the actress playing her must evoke the humanity and the hurt within a succulent love object. That is the sweet surprise of Do Thi Hai Yen's performance. With a smile that suggests duress and glances that murmur reproach, Yen speaks for Vietnam. "She suffers much," Yen says of Phuong, "but she keeps her character...
...interest is to stabilize Iraq, not colonize it. The risks to Iraqi civilians - and to U.S. troops - posed by an Israeli air-strike would likely be lower than they were during the Gulf War, thanks to advances in precision-guided munitions and surveillance technology. And while Israel remains the object of unremitting hostility throughout the Arab world, it won't make its image much worse by retaliating against Saddam...