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Ripped from any sense of sympathy or consequence, the reader approaches “2666” as a sort of museum of humanity, with triumph and atrocity laid bare and placed side by side: never equivocated, but inextricable from one another. The novel’s end comes suddenly, without reflection or resolution, as Archimboldi prepares to depart for Santa Teresa—the novel’s first cause. “2666” begins with an epigraph from Charles Baudelaire (“An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom?...
...When you have the CBS morning news blurring two gay men kissing,” Barrios said, “I think that shows we’re still a very far way from removing any sort of discrimination...
According to Burt, science fiction, as a highly self-conscious genre, lends itself to this sort of analysis. But being cognizant of how a text expects to be read, he says, is as important for comprehending poetry as it is for understanding science fiction. For Burt, the experience of reading Robert Heinlein and Octavia Butler is similar to going line-by-line through the poetry of John Ashbery or Jorie Graham. Reading science fiction helps students grasp other literature as much as it encourages them to ponder space ships, telekinesis, and sentient robots...
Live actors in a Wes Anderson movie put on a sort of theater of artifice; faces become masks, from behind which the humanity of a character can either struggle or fail to emerge. Perhaps the greatest failure of “The Darjeeling Limited” was in reversing this formula instead of developing on it. But the utterly blank faces of Fox, his family, and friends—posturing, wry, flummoxed, or brooding countenances as they fit their respective characters—allow for development that’s left totally up to the script. Fox?...
...Grease’ has all the elements there,” she says. “It has sex, it has pregnancy, it has rock ‘n’ roll, it has rebellion, and it has insecurity. But it’s disguised in a sort of happy-go-lucky nifty fifties, toothbrush, Colgate, Coca-Cola guise. It’s the perfect show to rip apart...