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Murakami's Magic I was thrilled to see the article on Haruki Murakami [Sept. 17]. As a student of literature, I am an avid reader, but I have never come across a writer as engrossing as Murakami. His style varies from descriptions of everyday events, such as cooking spaghetti, to intellectual discussions with total strangers to heart-stopping, beyond-reality experiences. His images are at times so vivid and meticulously detailed that reading them is like watching a movie. When I started reading A Wild Sheep Chase, I made a pencil dot in the margin next to every memorable phrase...
...also strikingly clear despite the surfeit of names and medical jargon necessarily associated with the field. The authors, chemists all, have enough of an outsider’s perspective on biology to strike an appropriate balance between providing useful technical vocabulary and dumping a list of Latin on the reader, and they do so without sacrificing their authoritative tone.The 27-page introduction leaves little to the imagination, providing a whirlwind overview of chemistry as well as fodder for the critics. While its writing is lucid and well-illustrated, a reader not intimately versed in (at least) Advanced Placement high school...
...illustration, “Majnun Visits the Ka’aba,” features Majnun, hands extended, approaching an uncovered, white Ka’aba. Looking at this early 19th century folio from Iran, it’s easy to imagine the excitement an original reader must have felt when flipping through the pages for the first time.Overall, the exhibit is a good sample of a famous tale in Islamic society. Unfortunately, it is overshadowed by the large collection of silver pots and blue tiles on display in the room. Although these artifacts might extend the viewer?...
...Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s newest book is an attempt to answer some of the most baffling questions about the relationships between women and men, women and their communities, and women and history. She may not provide any easy resolutions, but she succeeds in making readers curious about the condition of womanhood and its development throughout history—a history that stretches much farther back than the suffrage and feminist movements of more recent times. Ulrich began writing the book after its titular quotation—which she authored some 30 years earlier?...
...narrative would have been as emotionally gripping as Benigni’s. But plot is clearly not the driving force of the book. Instead, Ackerman focuses on stylistic experimentation as well as naturalist observation. The latter is enthralling in its meticulousness, but it distracts and disengages the reader from Antonina. Ackerman the writer clearly has difficulty separating herself from Ackerman the naturalist. Antonina frequently disappears from the page to make room for long and enthusiastic descriptions of the zoo’s animal and plant life. These passages are gorgeously written and reveal extensive knowledge, and Antonina?...