Word: realisms
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...ready to revisit Stevenson? A rereading of his novella The Beach of Fales? (1892), the only completed work in a planned series on cross-cultural encounters, suggests so. Peopled with dyspeptic traders, white-suited missionaries and superstitious Samoan villagers, it blends mythical tales with sea stories, achieving a heightened realism that critiques the colonial experience. An earlier story completed before his travels is thought to have provided Joseph Conrad with his famous last words for Kurtz, "The horror! The horror!" and The Beach of Fales? is Stevenson's Heart of Darkness...
...chalked up 1,800 brokered deals, 10,000 registered users and thousands of hits a day, as "a slave market" and "grave threat" to the country's long-cherished social model. Its founder, Münster student Fabian Löw, 32, however, believes his website is long-overdue applied realism. "We start where the politicians stop telling people the truth," says Löw, who plans to go global in September. Wages in Germany are so high, he argues, that "it has been too expensive to create new jobs." Löw's "eBay for the labor market" may help change that...
Bowing to realism, summer internships involve mostly up-front deposits in the Bank of Upward Mobility, with withdrawals to be made later: fast cars, slower women, issues of The New Yorker that recline, untouched, with a distinguished air on the coffee table until they are casually replaced the following week...
...comix, Geary's engraving-style black and white drawings seem particularly suited to stories that date from over 100 years ago. Each panel has a masterful sense of mise en scene, like the staged photos of the time, giving them a powerfully dramatic look. Straddling the border between realism and simplified cartoon, Geary's caricatures also have a subtle whimsy about them that adds to the macabre sense of humor running through all the books of the series, including this one. One panel provides a bizarre close-up of Lincoln's brain as it is removed during his autopsy, like...
...what his lasting place in the history of American thought, of theology, of political philosophy, will be." But Fox's depiction of Niebuhr in his prime makes him stand tall in comparison with today's political pulpiteers. A reading of the biography, followed by a good dose of Niebuhrian realism, might benefit the religious right and left. --By Richard N. Ostling