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Good news for old-media sufferers! On Wednesday, Fujitsu announced the world's first color e-reader. It renders text as cleanly as a printed page, displays 260,000 colors, weighs three-quarters of a pound and is connected to the Net via WiFi. It costs $1,000, a price tag that's probably three times too high, which is typical for products aimed at early adopters...
...those brutalist European maxi-novels that periodically come soaring at us across the Atlantic as if lofted here by a trebuchet. The last one was Roberto Bolao's 2666, in November. You can recognize them by their seriousness of purpose, their wild overestimation of the reader's attention span and their interest in physical violence that makes Saw look like Dora the Explorer. It's as if these European writers are laughing at their prim American counterparts, with their fussy scruples, the way Sudanese warlords laugh at American gangsta rappers. "Violence?" they seem to say. "War? What...
...Matter of Omission I am writing to you as a reader of TIME magazine for over 30 years and a dedicated subscriber for almost as long. I wish to convey my outrage and disappointment at the minimal coverage of the Australian bushfires [Feb. 23]. Surely a natural disaster of this magnitude deserves more extensive coverage in the magazine than the token items in Briefing. Is the death of hundreds of Australians not newsworthy enough? Or do you simply not care? John Zic, Punchbowl, Australia...
...Elior claims says these ancient historians, namely Philo and Pliny the Elder, either borrowed from each other or retailed second-hand stories as fact. "Pliny the Elder describes the Essenes as 'choosing the company of date palms' beside the Dead Sea. We know Pliny was a great reader, but he probably never visited Israel," she says...
...boom.” While Kathy Nilsson refrains from such gestures of grandiose pomposity, her poems are imbued with a similar ear for the power of the mundane. “The Abattoir” is a chapbook with 23 poems that frequently use the everyday to direct the reader on to more abstract concerns of love, loss, and a decaying spirituality. Written in Cambridge and published out of Georgetown, Kentucky, the poems frequently evoke the spirit of down-home Americana. In “Window-Shopping,” a broken-hearted man stares into the windows...