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...that there aren't any young novelists (for purposes of rough-'n'-ready generalization, let's say novelists under 40). At 39, Jhumpa Lahiri already has a powerful novel (The Namesake) and a Pulitzer-winning story collection. Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close) has got a lot of attention both popular and critical, and he's only 29. A somewhat partisan sampling would also include Colson Whitehead (The Intuitionist), 36; Edwidge Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory), 37; Dave Eggers (You Shall Know Our Velocity), 36; Arthur Phillips (Prague), 37; Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep), 30; Myla Goldberg (Bee Season), 34; Nicole Krauss...
Stop reading! Oh, all right, you can keep reading that book - whatever it is (Jonathan Safran who?) - but you might as well know it's the wrong one. Maybe you didn't hear, but this week the New York Times announced the name of the greatest American novel published in the past 25 years, and unless you're reading Toni Morrison's Beloved, that ain't it. The Times contacted an eclectic list of "a couple of hundred" critics and authors, among them Harold Bloom, Michael Chabon and Henry Louis Gates Jr., and asked each of them to choose...
...early--and best--passages, writer- director Liev Schreiber's film, adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's novel, is more comically daring than such a tale has any right to be. Jonathan--always dressed in a dark suit and tie, peering at the world through thick glasses and expecting to find vegetarian cuisine in the depths of a country where sausage appears to be the national dish--is not entirely prepared for the ministrations of his tour guides. They operate a grandly named organization called Heritage Tours, which consists of a dubious car and eccentric employees: Alex (Eugene Hutz), who says...
...academic colleagues. They point out that over the past two decades Harvard, Berkeley and a host of other schools, wary of Government influence but still eager for federal research grants, have set up policies to ensure that no research is secret or subject to prior review. Now the Safran incident has resurrected the thorny question of whose research money is clean and whose is not. One of the Harvard center's defrocked committeemen, Richard N. Frye, denounced the Spence report as a "whitewash" that ignored the broad effect on scholarly integrity. An academic who bowed out of the conference claimed...
Spence allowed that "the university owes an apology to scholars in the field" but conceded that not all of the blame should be heaped on Safran. It seems that when Safran signed the CIA contract for his book nearly four years ago, he told then Dean Henry Rosovsky about it. Somehow, Rosovsky's office never got around to responding. Last week Safran, angry at the prolonged controversy and the pressure to resign, stoutly defended his integrity and scholarship: "I have received requests for my book . . . from the Saudi embassy in Washington...