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...Remy Bricka? The pretentious thing would be to make the reader feel intellectually inadequate for not recognizing such an important pop culture icon. But since the writer herself had never heard of the man before she was assigned the story, we'll pity the reader somewhat. Quite simply put, Remy Bricka is a man who can walk on water--literally...
...evening began with six readings, featuring one student from each school. After about a half an hour, the event metamorphosed into an open mic forum, at which point the line between audience and reader became comfortably blurred and remained that way for two additional hours of poetic revelry...
...delight of most reformers, however, Ganji--an unabashed partisan of President Mohammed Khatami's, an avid reader of Western philosophy and the son of a gas-station attendant--refuses to avert his eyes. A street activist during Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolution, he now insists that building Iran's democracy entails acknowledging the Islamic regime's past mistakes. Whether Ganji will be able to continue his campaign is a crucial test for Iran's reformers as they maneuver against the hard-line conservatives who maintain control over the security forces and judicial system. If Ganji manages to remain alive...
...between work and play fail to see is that the play of drama is fundamentally a type of work. Tragedy, for instance, is exclusively a dramatic art form, or so most performance scholars will argue. An audience is forced to watch the tragedy through to the end whereas a reader can put down a book when it becomes too painful to bear. An audience, in other words, is forced to do the work of coming to terms with what they are seeing; a reader can choose to stop that work. As much as the play of theater is liberating...
...mysteries of Caravaggio's inventive, rootless and miserably destructive life quickly pull the reader into this biography, which reads as much like a Simenon detective tale as it does the deeply researched work of art history that it is. Even the painter's name is up for grabs, reduced here to M (it's worth reading the book to find out why). One thing is not mysterious: painting was irrevocably changed by the drama and limpid sexuality of Caravaggio's pictures--boys with eyes of precocious longing, fruit heavy with a ripeness so perfect as to be forbidden even...