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With so many affluent, culturally aware parents busy parenting, it's no wonder authors have been busy authoring, cashing in with truckloads of books about you and your child. The trend has even touched the fluffiest genre of nonfiction, the self-help book. Commercially, the match is a natural; intellectually...
Across the Atlantic, the FBI waited. In Philadelphia a low-level bureaucrat named Richard DiBenedetto dangled, weightless with anticipation. For 16 years, across five countries, the Philadelphia district attorney's fugitive-and-extradition chief had hunted the man called Mallon with an obsession that would have impressed Captain Ahab. His...
"We have a collective obsession with fronting and posturing for white people, not airing dirty laundry," Nelson asserts. Determined to air "race secrets," she takes a sledgehammer to black men, holding them accountable for most of the "everyday violence" that hounds black women into silence. Nelson is at her rousing...
I would make the trek just to see the guy whose obsession is a jet engine the size of a truck muffler bolted to go-cart wheels; he sits in front of the glowing, screaming toy and zips across the alkali flats. It's nothing like piloting a computer. And...
But even these exemplary cases suffer from the cloying taint of kitsch. Close Encounters reaches an anticlimax with its hackneyed vision of dainty space guys trooping out of the mother ship. Contact cannot explain its scientist-heroine's obsession without mawkish flashbacks to her childhood as an orphan; and when...