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DIED. YOUSUF KARSH, 93, portrait photographer who gained international acclaim for his 1941 picture of a defiant Winston Churchill; in Boston...
...pulls out all the stops for "The Crimson Petal and the White" by Michael Faber (Harcourt; September), giving it a starred, boxed review. "Faber's bawdy, brilliant second novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era's secrets and social hypocrisy...A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork...
...October, Perseus will publish "Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon" by Justin Martin. According to the publisher, "For this probing biography, the first since 1975, Justin Martin spoke with Nader along with more than 300 people, including close associates, old friends, and family. The result is a sweeping portrait, covering Nader's small-town Connecticut boyhood, his days at Harvard law, the David-and-Goliath battle with GM that launched him into the spotlight, and colorful encounters with characters as varied as Albert Einstein, Gloria Steinem, Fidel Castro, Phil Donahue, Susan Sarandon, Upton Sinclair and Al Gore. The climax of this extraordinary...
...numbers. The film's climax?unsurprisingly, it involves a lot of water?is marred by an implausible and unnecessary epilogue. It makes you wonder if Nakata is weary of the horror genre?or, perhaps, is evolving beyond it. Suspenseful as it is, Dark Water is more successful as a portrait of the bond between a single mother and her child in alienating urban Japan. The deeply felt domestic pathos raises the movie above the average thriller...
...decade alone, capturing the stunning patterns and characteristics of the natural and manmade worlds. From those thousands, Arthus-Bertrand has chosen an evocative 155, enlarged them to more than 2 m wide, weatherproofed them and assembled them in a free, outdoor exhibition entitled "Earth from the Air: A Photographic Portrait of Our Planet." On display till late September in the east garden of London's Natural History Museum, the exhibition will travel around Britain. With duplicate prints, it is also running in France, Poland, Sweden and Germany and is due shortly in Norway, Russia, Hungary and Lebanon. But Arthus-Bertrand...