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These eleven tales blend the domestic pity of Raymond Carver with the macabre comedy and rough justice of Roald Dahl. They nearly all turn, as most of Rendell's novels do, on two inward-looking impulses: revenge and the desire to hide. The characters are conventional middle-class Britons. Their behavior, however, is high gothic. The ironic Loopy, for example, becomes increasingly credible as events move toward the horrific. A middle-aged man, cast as the wolf in a Red Riding Hood playlet, discovers that he likes to wear a furry skin and romp in predatory games. His mother...
Front runner in the summer sweepstakes is War of the Worlds, for which Steven Spielberg has added his patented parent-and-imperiled-child theme to H.G. Wells' alien-invasion novel, memorably filmed in 1953. Tim Burton has imposed his lovable eccentricity on the Roald Dahl children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Johnny Depp replacing Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. In 1974, Burt Reynolds starred as the football-playing con in The Longest Yard; now he supports Adam Sandler and Chris Rock in their replay. And if your memory of Herbie, the Disney Love Bug, is as rusty...
...flying oompa loompa? The Great Glass Elevator in free fall? We don't know what the cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is staring up at either. Honestly! We'll all find out together next year, when the Tim Burton remake of the Roald Dahl classic hits theaters. JOHNNY DEPP, in the top hat, plays the off-kilter Willy Wonka, with FREDDIE HIGHMORE, far left, as Charlie Bucket. Let the hunt for a golden ticket begin...
...this month, was the surprise best-selling title in Norway last year and is due for release throughout Europe and in the U.S. over the next several months. With the unexpected proceeds, Seierstad recently bought an apartment in a house in Oslo that was once owned by arctic explorer Roald Amundsen - so she is now plotting her next move in the place where he planned his epic journeys. The characters in The Bookseller of Kabul reflect Afghanistan's contradictions. A man of letters who hid his books from the Taliban in attics across Kabul, Khan boasts that his eight...
...possible for me to realize that men and women are equal," Hirsi Ali says, "and given me the opportunity to take advantage of higher education. But it also made me ask why more Muslim women here are not doing the same." - By ABI DARUVALLA/The Hague THE CONVERT Anne Sofie Roald, 48, Sweden Most angry young students join marches or sign petitions. Anne Sofie Roald took the veil. When she discovered Islam at the University of Oslo in the early '80s, the faith seemed to offer all that she sought - fellowship, moral grounding, even ideological compatibility. "I was thinking about...