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...surgery for colon cancer. And other than wishing Ginsburg a speedy recovery, I'd rather not delve into her personal business. But there are a couple of important facts--and potentially lifesaving guidelines--that everyone should know about colon cancer. Ginsburg's illness prompts me to offer a mini review...
...luck of the Irish has always been their misery, at least where Ireland's writers have been concerned. Suffering makes for better stories than comfort does. Pain turns pages. And the best happy endings follow unhappy beginnings. (Although not always; see following review...
...course, defining the "real world" and its "real people" can be sticky. Whose to say that the quality of mackerel and incestuous soap operas are more "real" than any of our daily concerns, especially for we seniors, for whom resume font size and Kaplan Review are no laughing matter...
Through these stories, Lemann brings us back to a time when the seemingly omnipresent acronyms of high school--SAT and AP, but also Kaplan and the Princeton Review--were struggling to establish themselves, explicitly demonstrating that the answers to questions of educational and testing philosophy were not obvious, and therefore need not be permanent. The past seemed just as confusing at the time as the present seems today, a fact that people often forget when studying history as a series of already completed events...
Roger D. Hodge is not afraid of this kind of behavior. His Harper's Magazine review of Jedediah Purdy '97's first book, For Common Things, is one of the most vitriolic and least clever put-downs I have ever read; when its negativity is contrasted with Purdy's obvious and infectuous enthusiasm for the many things he loves and praises, the review also begins to seem strikingly sad. In his preface, Purdy boyishly admits that his book is "one young man's letter of love": it is this vulnerability that makes Purdy a moving and an effective narrator. That...