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...books. Writerly recognition took many years. Beginning in 1980, he mailed out 1,000 manuscripts, only to collect 500 refusals. "The rest got lost in the mail," he says. However, persistence paid off. In 1988, the London-based writers' association International pen accepted Kurkov as a member on the strength of his unpublished manuscripts. Then, in 1999, Death and the Penguin was picked up by a Swiss publisher, and began its slow climb onto best-seller lists in Switzerland and Britain. At first, some Ukrainians refused to consider Kurkov a Ukrainian writer because he wrote in Russian. At the same...
...romantic, between Lois and Clark. It's familial--the bond of two sets of fathers and sons: Jor-El and Superman, then Superman and Jason. Each parent tells his child that he must surpass the old man's feats, improve on Dad's legend. Poignantly, this strength, this divinity, isolates Superman from Earth's humans. He can save them but not be one of them. Lois can love him but never understand...
...attack may say little about the overall strength and commitment of the insurgency. But perhaps more importantly, this week the Muslim Scholars Association, a Sunni political group with insurgent ties, rejected the legitimacy of the government and its newly-complete cabinet...
...spoke with her in March, Barlas told me it was her department's role to challenge students with perspectives they won't get elsewhere. "If they are coming from a group who has a President in power, can they really claim to be oppressed and marginalized?" she asked. "Our strength is our ability to offer our students alternative perspectives." Alternative in this case means liberal: with help from the local Republican Party, some conservative students surveyed the college's professors and found 113 Democrats and seven Republicans, none of whom taught politics. When I asked Assistant Professor Charles Venator Santiago...
...STEEL Opening June 28, Superman Returns has it all: those manly virtues of heroic strength, risk taking and a sense of sacrifice, along with big explosions, kryptonite and Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane. As for risk taking: back away from the tights...