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...Nonami places women at the center of her work. As the author of some 50 books, she is more prolific than Kirino, although only one previous work has been translated into English. That's The Hunter, a fetching police procedural that follows Detective Takako Otomichi as she struggles to prove her mettle and earn the respect of her loutish male counterparts in the Tokyo police force's insular Criminal Affairs Division. The whodunit won Nonami the 1996 Naoki Prize, awarded for general literary excellence and nabbed in subsequent years by Kirino and fellow mystery writer Miyabe Miyuki, proving that...
...areas, facial hair has become as essential an accessory for would-be chic men as oversized totes are for their female counterparts. "Beards are back," says Allan Peterkin, a pogonologist (a.k.a. beard scholar) and author of One Thousand Beards. "It is an act of rebellion. Men are trying to prove that they are no corporate slave...
...workshops will begin with presentations on the Han Chinese military outposts in northwestern Korea, a subject that continues to inspire discussion almost 2,000 years later. Kim said that understanding the history of foreign relations with Korea’s neighbors—particularly with Japan—would prove vital in moving beyond the tragedies of the past. “The soil can become fertile if the past is used as a mirror for the future, or it can remain infertile if unresolved history is left as ongoing conflict,” he said in a lecture yesterday...
...impassioned, the kind you want to shout along to at an outdoor festival. Their songs instantly recall The Smiths, yet are written with an intelligence and grace (listen to “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You”) that prove that songs can have roots in the past and still sound new and significant. Influence is unavoidable. Not everything will be groundbreaking, just as not everything that’s groundbreaking will immediately sound groundbreaking. The past 80 years have seen unparalleled strides in music, the pace of which...
...many ways, the Democratic race has become a referendum on Clintonism and the politics of the 1990s. The way the Clintons see it, those grimy battles prove they can beat the worst things the Republicans or anyone else can throw their way. If their opponents want to relitigate a decade of peace overseas and brimming 401(k)s at home, the Clintons say, bring...