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Martel writes with a smooth, almost stoned detachment, cool to the touch, which gives a distant, unreal feeling to a story that's already dangerously weird and abstract. The taxidermist's play turns out to be a Beckettian affair about a monkey and a donkey, Beatrice and Virgil, who live...
Beatrice and Virgil is a true oddity. Its subject is violence and the impossibility of describing it: violence is an atrocity that immolates language itself, turns us into dumb animals and brute flesh. But Martel's story is so arbitrary and oblique that its savage truth almost misses making itself...
Sorry Jason Bourne, you’ve got to lose the second job on Wall Street. On Feb. 25, 2010, the House of Representatives adopted an amendment, to the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act, that restricts the ability of Central Intelligence Agency officers to hold a second job in...
Eshoo said in support of her amendment, “The American people must have confidence that government employees are working in the best interests of the nation, not in their personal self-interest.” It’s a nice sentiment, and in an ideal world it...
According to the “accidental banker,” an anonymous Harvard alum, the way to grow up fast is by heading to Wall Street. The mysterious banker “focused on history and government and political philosophy” at Harvard (does that mean Social Studies...