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...demonstrate moments of humor and human insight. Nevertheless, I had only read a limited amount of Welty and wanted to get to know her more intimately, so I picked up “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty” when I got back from Argentina this summer. Argentine culture and literature are strongly linked to its landscape, and perhaps it’s because of the time I spent there that I noticed more acutely the way in which Welty’s stories unfold in such specific landscapes. I had always loved her characters, but they...
...keep moviegoers flocking to the cinema in these times of emptying wallets and waning summer days? Hollywood seems to think it has a surefire recipe with “Righteous Kill.” Take two aging but legendary actors of ye olde gangster cinema, mix in rappers, guns, and badges, add a healthy portion of serial-killer storyline, and top it off with a dash of cheap twist ending. But if I really wanted to draw out this clichéd food metaphor, this Al Pacino/Robert De Niro tag-team event would have to be more of a reheated...
...found my literary heaven in Jamaica, England, and India on an all-American road trip. I normally adhere to the principle that for sanity’s sake, it’s best not to read for pleasure the literature you study. But I violated my own rule this summer when—as a postcolonial history and literature concentrator—I read, and enjoyed, some popular postcolonial lit.I don’t normally like reading postcolonial novels tailored for popular consumption—probably because I feel like I’ve overdosed. To me, Zadie Smith?...
...like about him. At least that’s what I said whenever Hemingway’s name was brought up until just about a month ago, when I read “The Sun Also Rises.” I had been in Paris for 6 weeks. All summer I had been walking past cafés where Hemingway drank himself into (and out of) depression. An American in Paris, I couldn’t help but think about that earlier, more famous group of Americans in Paris: Fitzgerald, Stein, Miller, Hemingway. (The fact that every other person...
...universal material to date. The new record may not end the continuing argument over the band’s merits, but it should be enough to quiet some of their critics. At the very least, they’ve crafted one of the most enjoyable albums of the summer. The Hold Steady have built up and filled out their sound with varying levels of success. “Sequestered in Memphis” thrives on fuzzed-out guitar and stuttering horns, and “Slapped Actress” succeeds through the dichotomy of delicate piano and a massive guitar...