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...Woodward's first book on this Administration, Bush At War, was hagiography, the prose equivalent of those post-9/11 Annie Leibovitz photographs for Vanity Fair that captured the President and his War Cabinet in heroic still lifes. Woodward, the world's most famous investigative reporter and an assistant managing editor at the Washington Post, took a lot of heat for going soft on the President in Bush At War, but the author's critics were wrong to suggest he was politically motivated. That book, remember, chronicled the President and his inner circle during the first three months after 9/11...
...limp presence seems equally superfluous to the central plot. BOTTOM LINE: The filmmakers do an excellent job of editing down the epic tract into a manageable two hours, while still adding a richness of visual detail on Southern life and politics. But Penn Warren’s sweeping prose on universal themes and regional history does not translate into lethargic voiceovers, especially not from the distinctly un-Southern and pouty mouth of Jude Law. —Reviewer Kristina M. Moore can be reached at moore2@fas.harvard.edu...
...guns, currency, nutrition, legal troubles, religious beliefs, ships, codes of honor, and drunken revelries of pirates are thoroughly explained in a lively, yet detailed, prose...
...country Wright sings about in prose is an ancient landscape crisscrossed by salty tides and cyclones, mining and mythology. A Waanyi woman born in the southern uplands of the Gulf country, near Cloncurry, Queensland, Wright has spent much of her life away from its fecund waterways, working in Aboriginal research and advocacy in Alice Springs and Melbourne, where she now lives. But in spirit she's still there?"It's clear," she says, "clear water, full of water lilies and turtles and fish." To read the magisterial Carpentaria (Giramondo; 519 pages) is to enter Wright's world. What's evoked...
...much more nuanced and complex and deep-thinking writer than he's been given credit for." And fans who think Tolkien was not just a great storyteller but also a great stylist are similarly excited about Hurin. They expect it to be the best example of his mature, fluid prose since The Lord of the Rings. "He wrote [parts of Hurin] after finishing Rings and by that time he had developed a full narrative style," says Carl F. Hostetter, co-editor of Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth. Which is fitting. One of Tolkien's most...