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Squid/Whale anatomized the divorce of a Manhattan literary couple, with particular emphasis on its effect on the children. Baumbach's new movie, Margot at the Wedding, studies a putative wedding involving an even more dysfunctional (and witless) family. Margot (Nicole Kidman, muting her starry presence, but unable to find a...
“I think that most of fiction is autobiographical,” Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk reflected before a packed Memorial Church audience last Friday night, exactly one year to the date of his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. “The art of the novel...
The Baghdad Blues is his latest homage to the country's traumatized capital, though this discomfiting collection of poems is much less political than the film. You won't find the expected vilification of fiends like Saddam and Chemical Ali. In a parenthetical note to "A Prisoner's Song," Antoon...
Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, is the patron saint of cubicle dwellers. With his cartoons in 2,000 newspapers and 23 books under his belt, Adams' stature in America's workplaces is indisputable. Here he ventures slightly beyond his cube to write "a diary of my thoughts...
is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column, “Sardonic Verses,” returns for a fifth semester of irreverent commentary on higher education, and an outsider’s perspective on the daily news. All this, and more, on alternate Fridays.