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...12th novel, published in 1962. A formal tour de force, The Golden Notebook is the story of a divorced writer named Anna Wulf told through her four notebooks, each of which is concerned with recording a different aspect of herself. Brilliant, autobiographical and feverishly experimental, it's a bravura portrait of a shattered self, richly adorned with ruthless commentary on psychoanalysis, Communism, England and Africa, and modern fiction. "This novel," Lessing has said of The Golden Notebook, "is an attempt to break a form; to break certain forms of consciousness and go beyond them. While writing it, I found...
...only now, with the publication of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, do we have a candid, personal portrait of the writer, with little of the Victorian reserve of his memoirs. Most of the nearly 1,000 letters are to his beloved mother, Mary Doyle, beginning in 1867, when he was an 8-year-old boy at a Jesuit boarding school, and continuing until 1920, when Mary died. The book's editors - two Conan Doyle scholars and the author's great-nephew - also provide plenty of background material, rare drawings and photographs, and relevant excerpts from Conan Doyle...
...fans, including college students, their favorite music how they want it and where they want it.” Yet still, wayward students, you flout him, resorting to illegal free downloads without stopping for a moment to consider buying the $20 CD. Marks goes on to paint a harrowing portrait of a world free of music, consumed by collegiate greed: “thousands of regular, working class musicians and others out of work, stores shuttered, new bands never signed.” Look what you’ve done, miserly undergraduates. All this was to be found...
...creates what Ulrich calls a woman’s attempt to toe the line between invisibility and scandal. “Slaves in the Attic” discusses the coupling of the abolitionist movement with the suffrage movement. Ulrich’s originality is most evident in her portrait of “the four Harriets,” figures who reveal society’s varying levels of awareness of acts of female bravery. She demonstrates that courageous women can become as prominent as Harriet Tubman, but can equally remain as obscure as Harriet Jacobs, a slave...
...Royal Tenenbaums,” Anderson both solidifies and reaches beyond his trademark vision in “The Darjeeling Limited.” His fifth feature, which he authored alongside Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola, son of Francis Ford, is an oddly intense portrait of brotherhood and loss. It chronicles three siblings—played by Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Schwartzman—who embark on a Beatles-esque spiritual journey through India a year after their father’s death, having spent the intervening time estranged. Everything does not go as planned: after several strange mishaps...