Word: realists
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...Kristen is adept, realist, smarter than...
...most famous work to date is about a completely different dystopia —the sexual nightmare that was reading-list favorite, the 1985 The Handmaid’s Tale. Oryx and Crake is somewhat of a return to her roots after a series of well-received realist novels, including Cat’s Eye and the Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin...
Purdy’s most recent project is an art gallery that includes work from local artists, as well as his own work. The collection revolves around abstract, “semi-abstract” and realist works. Purdy, who trained at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts School, admits that the art business is difficult. “Art is so intangible that people have difficulty understanding its intrinsic value,” he says. On Mondays and Tuesdays, the space offers a drawing class, during which a model comes to sit for portraits and figure drawing...
...Harvard Film Archive (HFA) continues its series on Ning Ying, a Chinese director who has gained worldwide acclaim for her humorous, realist portraits of contemporary China. I Love Beijing is the final film in her award-winning Beijing trilogy and focuses on a cabbie who maintains a second life as a would-be Casanova. 9 p.m. Tickets $8/$6 students...
...maybe Garcia Marquez did not have to bend them much. The Nobel-prizewinning Colombian novelist has always maintained that he was not a magic realist but just a writer making the most of the lavish realities of Latin America. After reading his abundant new memoir, Living to Tell the Tale (Knopf; 484 pages), you'll be inclined to agree. In a warm but largely matter-of-fact style, he recalls the headless man who rode past one day on a donkey, killed by a machete in a settling of accounts on the nearby banana plantation. Then there was the fishing...