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Love is a short novel (though the flap copy reminds us, a trifle touchily, that it's still "major") with a snazzy mystery plot, some energetic sex and flashes of witty banter. ("If this wasn't hell," Christine says of her living arrangements, "it was the lobby.") But why isn't it more fun? Partly because Morrison is so interested in the play of memory and time and point of view that readers have to do a lot of homework just to figure out what's going on. Partly because, like so many master portraitists, Morrison is drawn to ugly...
...This tale of a monster emerging from the human mind and the international pursuit of a crumbling manuscript closely follows the canons of the 19th century Gothic novel. Yet Carey does right not to belabor his debt to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which haunts every page. Carey unfolds his plot in a Chinese-box construction of narration within narration, focusing mostly on Chubb's telling his story to Wode-Douglass in a hotel bar in K.L. It's a convention straight out of a Regency-era chiller: the aged friar revealing the horrid skeletons in the abbey closet...
...SENTENCED. IYMAN FARIS, 34, Ohio truck driver, to 20 years in prison for supporting al-Qaeda and plotting to attack the Brooklyn Bridge; by a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. U.S. officials said Faris, a Kashmir-born naturalized U.S. citizen, admitted to meeting Osama bin Laden at a camp in Afghanistan in 2000 and later talked with an al-Qaeda leader in Karachi, Pakistan about severing the suspension cables of the Brooklyn Bridge. In 2003 he sent a coded message to an al-Qaeda operative that "the weather is too hot," meaning he didn't expect the plot to succeed...
Just about everybody knows the bare-bones plot of the Faust story: man sells soul to devil for magical powers. Goethe’s expanded version involves Mephistopheles, his companion, and Faust’s lover Gretchen, who eventually goes mad, kills her child, and dies. That’s just about all there is to the plot in this production...
...though it’s not as good as it could be, it is much, much better than it might have been. Thanks mostly to the strength of its acting and the coherence of its dance scenes—which consistently contribute to the show’s plot and tone—the production unexpectedly succeeds. Although it certainly isn’t to everyone’s taste, this adaptation of Faust 1 forms a solid aesthetic and dramatic whole...