Word: precisionism
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With its beauty pageant, parade, speed shucking contests and, of course, mountains of fresh oysters, the International Oyster Festival (galwayoysterfest.com) in Galway, Ireland, is four days of fun and feasting, guaranteed to satiate the appetites of even the most ardent bivalve lover. Now in its 51st year, the mouth-watering...
Well you can't keep a good novelist down, and 79 pages into Coetzee's first book since the Swedish Academy lauded the "icy precision" of his prose, Elizabeth is back, as hot and blustery as the wind off the desert. Until this point, Slow Man (Knopf; 265 pages) has...
In 1973, during China's Cultural Revolution, Pingsha Dong, originally from Dalian, was transplanted for re-education into the hinterland, where the schools reduced the curriculum to communist rote. Before he left, his father told him that no matter what the risk, "you need to learn." So, after 16 hours...
"I never use the word tortured," he says defensively and decisively, as he sits in the tea room of a posh Manhattan hotel. "I use it in response to someone saying it to me, but I don't ever ..." That is one of many Fiennes statements that evaporate in mid...
Katie Root of tiny Crandall, Texas, says the trouble starts with how deceptively easy and fun it all looks. "People say, 'I want to be a cheerleader, woohoo, I'm done,' but it's not like that," explains the petite 13-year-old, a wrinkle creasing her young brow. You...