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...completed the first draft of her book, which had grown from a 25-page short story to a 300-page manuscript...
...mail, Officer Justin Barrett, referred to Gates as a "jungle monkey.” The one-paragraph, page-long tirade was written in response to a column that was published in The Boston Globe in July about Gates' arrest...
...founder of the Islamic Republic. Khomeini visited Beheshti's family after making an early departure from a ceremony commemorating his grandfather, attended by both Khamenei and Ahmadinejad. Khomeini left before the President began his speech. On the day after the event, newspapers aligned with the conservatives printed front-page photographs showing the Supreme Leader kneeling beside Khomeini's tomb alone, while newspapers associated with the reformists pictured Khamenei standing alongside an expressionless Hassan Khomeini. Meanwhile, opposition websites, unconcerned by Iran's press censors, published pictures of Khomeini's grandson embracing Beheshti's two young daughters...
Reading pulls us away from an environment flooded with constant activity. It forces us to cast aside everything else and give undivided attention to a book for a sustained period of time. The contrast between the calm of the printed page and the frenetic pace of contemporary life is greater today than for any previous generation. Technology intensifies the interior world of self-reflection found by reading literature because it is so different than the rest of our lives. Paradoxically, the current technological age heightens the particular power of literature—making books truly indispensable to our generation...
...what is foreign into a controllable compartment. “Dance with Snakes,” originally published in 1996 and now translated by Lee Paula Springer, is a four-part frenzy, a detailed depiction of the chaotic hell one man and four murderous snakes engender. Superficially a fantastical page-turner, the novel is at its core an uncompromising interrogation of authority, a gruesome satire whose pivot turns on exposing the consequences that result from a manipulated identity...