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Music. Flight. Racism. The tales in Ralph Ellison's posthumous collection of short fiction, Flying Home and Other Stories (173 pages; Random House; $23) deal with a variety of issues, but certain concerns pop up repeatedly, variations on compelling melodies. Characters in different stories burst into song; birds and airplanes are seen as metaphors for freedom; and white racism is a fanged, fearsome threat...
...human fetus has 100 billion neurons at its disposal. While most devote their 100 billion to such mundane pursuits as hearing or kicking, the title hero in Carlos Fuentes’ novel “Christopher Unborn” spins 500-plus pages of giddy prose, interspersed with song lyrics, shape poems, plays, and political ads. Sixteen years after “Christopher”’s first edition in English, the non-profit Dalkey Archive Press gives this loud and incorrigible work by Mexico’s most famous novelist a much-deserved rebirth in American bookstores...
Anyhow, “Rent’s” promotional push begins in earnest with the release of this “music video” (read: trailer) for “Seasons of Love,” the hit song spawned by the musical. I’m a fan of “Seasons”—it’s actually quite pleasant, as songs about a lover’s death from AIDS...
Much credit has to go to Junell for creating a short film out of a song by a band whose music is hardly visual. The video concerns a bald, portly, middle-aged man, living a soulless corporate life in a particularly depressing Bed, Bath, Linens, Things and Beyond. Following are shots of mattresses and men with ill-fitting dress shirts; general misery ensues, backed by lead singer Britt Daniel’s restrained 4/4 emotions. Later, said fat protagonist comes home, relaxes, eats, puts on women’s clothing… what? Yes, it seems that, as Daniel croons...
...legal strategy it may be limited, but as a propaganda swan-song it will allow him to paint himself in the great tradition of Arab heroes who went down fighting in the face of overwhelming force. But the court proceedings will likely also allow his victims to present their own narrative, which may undermine Saddam's bid for the mantle of Arab martyr...