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...While Tenmyouya's work is troubling, Machida's demented and deformed dolls are probably among the most disturbing images you will see from neo-nihonga artists today-as well as the most accomplished. The 37-year-old Machida started out painting in the traditional nihonga style-which emphasizes rich color-before abruptly shifting to drawing only in stark, monotone lines. "Colors weren't really fitting my character," she says (nor, one might add, the bleakness of her subject matter). Her art teachers initially dismissed her new style-"they said it's not painting; it's just manga," she recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outside the Lines | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...enjoyed the cover story on Africa's Oil. Although West Africa has the potential to be the next Persian Gulf, its oil probably won't make the region an economic powerhouse. There should be a commitment by all stakeholders to redistribute oil wealth among Africa's people. The oil-rich states should stop channeling the proceeds from oil sales into the bank accounts of the ruling élite while the majority of their citizens suffer economic stagnation and social deterioration. That pattern fuels only political instability. Oluwole Akinbi, lagos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...busy with her duties to tour her domain. Not everyone will recognize Smith when she does; the Home Secretary's staff have been reduced to pinching outdated photos from her personal website to circulate around the building. But with terrorist groups having seemingly decided that Britain remains a rich target for their operations, whether or not Blair is the nation's Prime Minister, a lack of recognition won't trouble Smith for long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calm at the Center | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...year was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. One day he was shocked to see Paris police randomly stopping nonwhites. Then, while searching for an obscure cinema ("I'm a big movie buff, five or six a week"), he discovered the 10th arrondissement's rich stew of African and Asian ethnicity. His novel tries "to look at Paris in a different way," he says, "through the eyes of immigrants who live there but seldom come in contact with white French natives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost in America | 7/3/2007 | See Source »

Neuk Crescent in Houston, on the edge of Glasgow, hardly feels like an outpost of terrorist activity. Residents of the quiet street, cut into a wooded hillside in the upper-middle class suburb, can count the Scottish city's rich professional football players among their neighbors. Curving in on itself, the crescent's name speaks to its snug insulation: In the local dialect, "neuk" means "nook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suspects Emerge in the Terror Hunt | 7/2/2007 | See Source »

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