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...recent novels that has achieved commercial as well as critical success. Given McCarthy’s elegant minimalist style and simple, episodic plot, I wondered how this post-apocalyptic novel was capable of capturing the national imagination. It was only after attempting to read Philip Roth’s 1997 novel “American Pastoral,” however, that the merits of “The Road” became apparent. One can learn important things from a novel without even finishing...
...limits and nearly every referendum on the issue passed by a 2-to-1 vote. "Term limits sever from time to time the natural comfortable tie between members and special interests in their district. They bring government closer to the people and improve citizen access to the process," says Philip Blumel, president of U.S. Term Limits, the largest advocacy group in the field. (See "Washington's Time for Bipartisanship: Retirement...
...spend so many years in the wilderness, aspiring to be "literary"? "It felt like the safe thing," he admits. "But eventually I realized that the New Jersey of Philip Roth is as much a pure product of make-believe as Alice's Wonderland. If all fiction is make-believe, then writers should not deny themselves great metaphors like ghosts and angels and devils." For Joe Hill, that's the stuff home is made...
...much more Mean Streets than Manhattan. "You couldn't get a cab to take you down there," she recalls of her Tribeca neighborhood. But she fell in with a community of artists and made money fixing up loft spaces with Philip Glass, who was driving a cab by day and performing at night. "I would sand the floors and put up these Sheetrock walls, and [he] would do the plumbing," she says. "And I'd tell Philip, 'You have to sign these pipes. You're going to be really famous.' He was like, 'Aw, shut...
...Philip H. Gordon, the U.S. assistant secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, said in a lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School yesterday that Eastern Europe needs to be better integrated into NATO and the European Union in order to achieve regional stability...