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These antics have led some to dismiss Gray’s work with various po-mo epithets and move on. However, his writing has been critically lauded. “Lanark” is one of Gray’s most famous—and best—works to date. Dedicated readers who accept the novel’s quirks can expect swift and generous returns from the skilled hand of a unique and powerful writer...
...Po Bronson is the author of What Should I Do With My Life? and Why Do I Love These People? His website is pobronson.com...
...wild mushrooms, greens and berries foraged from the forest floor and served nearly unadorned the same day. In 1993, when Batali helped launch his first restaurant, P, he brought that unaffected Italian sensibility to downtown Manhattan. (He also needlessly added an accent mark to the name of Italy's Po River.) "He was doing some things so simple--things like affogato, which is gelato [Italian ice cream] with a shot of espresso in it. It's a classic in Italian restaurants, but I had never seen it in the U.S. And there it was in the menu at P," says...
...boldest reform. Chirac wants the probation period halved, and to require that bosses give a reason if they want to fire a young person. "Don't look for legal, economic or logical coherence in this - because there is none," says Dominique Reynié, professor at Paris' Sciences-Po. "Its goal is strictly political: defuse a month of crisis by letting everyone win a little, and no one lose." It didn't work. Those favoring reforms despaired of another retreat; unions and student groups promised more strikes and demonstrations, building on the momentum from last week when more than two million...
...order advocate, promising to "cleanse" the blighted French suburban projects of its young "thugs." "Sarkozy's entire political identity since he made the presidency his obvious objective has been based on tough law-and-order enforcement, and equally radical economic liberalism," says Dominique Reyni?, a political analyst at Sciences-Po in Paris, who says Sarkozy's turn-around on the labor law smacks of cynical opportunism...