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...this takes place within the perennial court of inquiry that is small-town life. The meticulous carpentry of Haruf's prose, all those spare run-on sentences, owes debts to Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy. Haruf's words lend weight to the takeout-pizza boxes and so forth of modern Colorado. So is it churlish to point out that behind the facade of its steadfast language, this is a fairly sentimental book? And one too much in thrall to its own lugubrious music, which is no substitute for narrative drive. It's a fine line between gravity and listlessness. Time...
...novel reaches its literary high-point when Nikki returns home to Harvard, and Thomas-Graham’s prose captures the character of Cambridge. Her vivid descriptions pay homage to Café Algiers, Brattle Street Florists, and the Spare Change hawker in the center of the Square. But in reaching out to a larger audience, Thomas-Graham must unravel the intricacies of Harvardia, and at times these explanatory passages will likely prove tedious for readers in-the-know. Thomas-Graham’s caricatures of Princeton socialites are priceless, but one wonders whether the author has adopted her subjects?...
...Sound and the Fury,” Underwood says, “and what you find is quite off-putting.” Bribing his students to search for the plaque with the promise of cookies, Underwood has found a way to make Faulkner’s dense prose more real...
...place of work by its full name, the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. AIDS, on the other hand, rife in that part of Africa, is never mentioned by name (most Botswanans "won't use it either," McCall Smith says), although it's acknowledged touchingly in the books. Their prose is gentle, easing the reader through Ramotswe's world of crimes of virtue and social misdemeanors. "I'm fed up with gritty, in-your-face stuff," says McCall Smith. "I don't like to read too much about the distressing aspects of life...
...rationalist system of social thought is the most elaborate and methodical in the contemporary world, which is why he is often cited as a sage by people who would rather chew glass than read his lumbering prose. But it is the awesome yet careful architecture of Jurgen Habermas' lifetime of scholarship that undergirds his reputation as an independent commentator on most of the ills of the contemporary world. Reason, for this 74-year-old German philosopher-sociologist, is practical, and reason is rooted in the ability to communicate clearly with one another. When people of different cultures come together...