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...past hovers ominously over all of Kertész’s novels, though “Detective Story,” appearing in English for the first time, may be the exception. Originally written two years after “Fatelessness,” “Detective Story?? demonstrates an expansion in focus from its predecessor as it denounces the general inhumanity of totalitarian governments. Set in an unidentified, fictional South American state, under a vague but ominously present dictatorship—which itself gets overthrown by an equally blurry political force—the novella...
...even given “Lost” the unique honor of working with a set conclusion in 2010. This gives the writers a rare upper hand in planning the rest of their machinations. Despite this development, I wonder if the story??s web has already spun out of control; with four new characters added just this week and three more promised for the episode yesterday, I’m not sure what kind of mystery can satisfyingly encompass all of these pasts, futures, and conflicting desires. In the meantime, like any good agnostic...
...Faust devilishly adds, “just in time for Gettysburg.” It takes great talent to make a reader laugh while writing about the Civil War. No one, even the fashionable lady mourner, is exempt from Faust’s wit. Everyone’s story??whether they’re a private or a general, a slave or a Harvard scholar—is fair game. Faust tells us about Walt Whitman’s attempts to nurse wounded soldiers, Clara Barton’s mission to exhume and identify the bodies of unknown...
...thematic abrasiveness, perhaps working towards such a new idiom? Seen charitably, the fictional world of “Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black” is one of interracial mélange, in which, by disregarding syntax, we can circle the absent center of identity. As the title story??s protagonist probingly asks, “So what’s happened to the ideal of the Struggle (the capitalized generic of something else that’s never over, never mind history-book victories) for recognition, beginning in the self, that our kind, humankind, doesn?...
...insipid snots that haunt the arcade in the lobby of your local theater. So the quality of Apatow’s work only means so much to its intended audience. But is the film any good? That’s trickier.“Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story?? plays exactly what you’d expect: another ironically hyperbolic tall-tale comedy that happens to poke fun at other movies…just without Will Ferrell. Reilly can field jokes as Dewey Cox, the loveable dolt who happens to be a musical genius, and his demeanor...