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Although ostensibly for a general audience, a reader must know a great deal about literature to understand all of Bloom’s points. Yet it is still possible to appreciate his analyses with only a fraction of the breadth of his knowledge, especially since Bloom ties many of the crucial ideas to more observable historical phenomena, including American history...
...betting that companies like sports-apparel giant Nike will incorporate its service into their business. Already, every couple of hours Nike sends a batch of orders from Nike.com to a UPS facility in Kentucky. Within minutes a UPS employee using a state-of-the-art radio-frequency bar-code reader, grabs the item--usually made in Asia and delivered directly to UPS--off the shelf. The product, often a pair of Nike's famous shoes, is then quality checked by another UPS employee, carefully packed and sent out the door within 24 hours. "While Nike is researching how to make...
...monument to the pleasures of displacement. Richie watchers can observe, more intimately than ever, a man who is generally happiest observing. Newcomers to the "chronic non-joiner" may be tempted to turn to two essential, and more formal, companion books also published in recent years: The Donald Richie Reader and a reissue of his haunting travel-memoir, The Inland...
...charmer who can intuit the flattering lies everyone wants to hear; Madsen with an intense, sexy intelligence; Giamatti radiating pain and fitful star quality. His Miles keeps hurting but keeps searching; this frustrated novelist isn't looking for a big publisher so much as for a loving reader. In Maya, whom he has disappointed in so many ways, he may have found one. Perhaps the depressive has found a reason to hope. What is hope, anyway, if not knocking one last time on the door of a beautiful woman you've hurt? --By Richard Corliss
...state of news today, and resolve to do something about it with nothing more than a satellite phone and a laptop. Witness back-to-iraq.com, where blogger Christopher Allbritton regularly updates his site with dispatches from Baghdad (until recently when Time, his stringing day job, moved him out). Funded by reader donations that have reached $15,000, Allbritton’s site leaks sarcasm and malice, but nonetheless includes some great insights and on-the-ground reporting. If you want to hear about the reality of Western journalists in Iraq—stuck in a hotel room because of fear of kidnapping?...