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Another December at the movie theater can only mean one thing: Another deluge of sober, high-minded Oscar hopefuls (Frost/Nixon, The Reader, Doubt), all made with the aim of securing movie studios the prestige of year-end awards. (See TIME's list of the top 10 films...
Bernhard Schlink's The Reader is one of those tricky novels that, based on the sober moral questions it poses and its close-to-elegant style, pretends to high literary seriousness while offering its readers - millions upon millions of them in the 37 countries where it has been translated - plenty of lubriciously rendered romps in the hay with a woman in her mid-30s and an eager young man in his mid-teens. Stephen Daldry's film, written by David Hare, is faithful both to the novel's plot and to its higher aspirations. This is not an entirely good...
...avid reader of Agatha Christie novels, Okonjo-Iweala is also an aficionado of African art and Persian rugs. She loves Nigerian food and traditional music, her children say. Her desire to promote what Uzodinma calls “the cultural patrimony,” combined with her love of travel, has translated into her wildly successful career...
...North remained de facto segregated and many white-collar jobs continued to be all-white occupations. Northern blacks were forced to continue fighting for equal standing and reintegregation well into the 1980s. Today, their struggle continues.The book not only provides an in-depth historical perspective but also reaches the reader at a more emotional level with its many anecdotes of injustice in the North. Sugrue tells of the 1964 police shooting of a black junior high school student during a non-violent protest in Harlem. (Immediately after the shooting, the protest turned into a riot?...
...says earnestly from his home in Hawaii. "The irony is that I concur with what they're saying. Those who are looking for answers find the simple, memorable approach the most valuable." It is hard to argue with that: the book has a resonance that stays with the typical reader for a long time. It is also hard to argue with 22 million copies sold...