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BOOKS . . . FLYING HOME AND OTHER STORIES: Ralph Ellison was a great writer, but not a prolific one. Born in 1914, he published only one novel, 'Invisible Man,' before his death in 1994. 'Flying Home' represents a welcome addition to his oeuvre, notes TIME's Christopher John Farley. Of the 13 stories in 'Flying Home,' six were unpublished during Ellison?s lifetime. They were found, after his death, in a box beneath his dining-room table. The tales in 'Flying Home' were written between 1937 and 1954, when the author was still fairly young, and nearly all of them feature drifting...
...World War II, the Hungarian aristocrat Count Laszlo de Almasy finds his ideal desert woman and follows her to hell. He then lives, just barely, to tell the tale to a ministering angel (Juliette Binoche) who can give him what he needs: not absolution but understanding. The lovers are Ralph Fiennes--all coiled sexiness, threat shrouded in hauteur--and Kristin Scott Thomas, who has the gift of making intelligence erotic; they come together in a dance of doom that is abrasive, mysterious, powerful, inevitable. Anthony Minghella's beautiful film, based on the Michael Ondaatje novel, gets the rapture right, with...
Heaney will give up his position as Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory, a chair he has held since 1984, to become the first Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence...
Although the position created for Heaney is new, poets Robert Frost and Robert Lowell have each held similar posts. Frost held the Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellowship in Poetry from 1939 to 1941, and Lowell was the Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer on English Literature from...
Amid the growing public concern over the mortal danger of air bags, it may be hard to imagine anyone's standing up and declaring that they are among the most effective safety devices ever developed for cars and trucks. Yet that is just what auto-safety experts like Ralph Hoar believe. "The debate over air bags has always been distorted," argues Hoar, a consultant in Arlington, Virginia. "Air bags have been sold as the silver bullet that will save you or the lead one that will kill you. They have been oversold and demonized...