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...recent colors (“Sad Red…Really Sad Blue…Divorce Sienna…Divorce Brown”), and a host of other scenes that form a whir of brief, existential episodes.By playing with our notions of youth, Rich pulls off in short bursts what Roald Dahl did so well in his novels. Children are endowed with the mannerisms, insights, and burdens of adults. And the adults, well, they sound like children.The achievement, aside from laughs, is an emotional work that often draws deep meaning, as in the title bit, which envisions the predicament inside...
This year’s survey features 31 quirky questions that force lonely hearts to choose whether they prefer Shrek to Roald Dahl’s “BFG” or “savage poking” to news feed voyeurism...
...readers who like their short stories with a Roald Dahl-ish twist, Every Move You Make could be a form of Chinese water torture. As the title character of Mrs Porter and the Rock, about a widowed suburbanite dragged by her son to Uluru, complains: "Nothing had happened." But those who relax into Malouf's dreamy prose, the rewards are pleasurable and profound. In The Valley of Lagoons, we enter the stillness of the Gulf country through the consciousness of a 16-year-old boy to discover "an interweaving of close but distant voices so dense that they become...
...want to be bigger. We kept talking about it and I told it again, which is not a normal thing, so it stood out as an anomaly. I had really been dancing around with making up my own mythology. I?ve been reading Tolkien and J. K. Rowling and Roald Dahl, because the kids are at that age, almost...
...trenches of World War I?would be adopted by fashion icons like Catherine Deneuve and Chlo Sevigny. Yet Burberry, who had started off as an apprentice to a country draper in Basingstoke, England, was used to outfitting the famous. He had, after all, supplied the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen with his gabardine coats when he headed off to the South Pole in 1911. These days, Burberry designer Christopher Bailey outfits quite a different group?including celebs like Uma Thurman and heads of state like Jacques Chirac. ?By Caroline Tell