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PUZZLING OVER WHY Jamaica Kincaid gave the title she did to the novel she wrote, The Autobiography of My Mother (Farrar Straus Giroux; 228 pages; $20), is one of the season's better literary games. The book's striking central figure, apparently a fictional portrait of Kincaid's mother, aborts her only pregnancy at age 15 and is in fact childless--making a logical contradiction of the title. The reward here, as always with Kincaid's work, is the reading of her clear, bitter prose...
Lueders-Booth said that Angeli created a composite portrait of her son using both nude and clothed pictures. He said he did not find the photographs objectionable...
...that defy rational explanation. "There is a spookiness about this novel, one that is hard to convey," says Gray. "But Vargas Llosa's meticulously realistic descriptions of this high, unforgiving landscape and the haunted people who perch there for the span of their lives ultimately merge into a surreal portrait of a place both specific and universal."Movies: The White BalloonJafar Panahi's sweet little tale of a small Iranian girl looking for some lost money has become the victim of an international skirmish over the U.S.'s alleged efforts to destabilize Iran. The country's Ministry of Culture...
...told by its last surviving progeny. The Da Gama-Zogoibys are rendered in full Rushdie relief. The Da Gamas are Catholic, the Zogoibys Jewish. Their combustible union is further complicated by issues of waning colonialism; family politics are intricately woven in with global politics to form a dizzying portrait of people handcuffed to time and place...
That information, along with the laws of orbital mechanics and planetary formation, let Marcy and Butler paint a portrait of the new worlds. They're like Jupiter: mostly gas, with small cores of rock. If water exists on either, it's the temperature of hot tea and is located high in the atmosphere; creatures that live on the planets would be very different from anything on Earth. Says Marcy: "It would have to be some sort of life that evolved without ever touching the ground...