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Thom Jones' first book is a sheaf of extraordinary short stories, most of them about scarred, damaged men on the far side of violence. The viewpoint doesn't vary much: a straight-on, wondering stare back through the wreckage. The narrator of the superb title story cripples another Marine in a squabble during training, survives three tours of combat in Vietnam, then, overmatched in a prizefight and too stubborn to fall down, outpoints his opponent but suffers brain damage that leads to worsening epilepsy. "What a goddamn fool," he says of himself. He wrestles with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche without improving...
...efforts resulted in superb reporting, first for his newspaper and now at greater length in Lenin's Tomb. His book provides both an intellectual history of the fall of the U.S.S.R. and a travelogue through its terminal illnesses, from corruption in the Kremlin to the deadly pollution of the Urals and the haunted desolation of Kolyma, center of the Siberian gulags. The book's powerful sense of place and its clarity about events that confused many of the participants will shame those who dismiss books written by reporters as "mere journalism...
CINEMA Made in America is a deft comedy. MUSIC Chris Isaak is again steeped in cowboy blues. TELEVISION Two men dying of AIDS film a searing account of their last days. BOOKS Lenin's Tomb is a superb account of the fall of the U.S.S.R. THEATER Later Life shows A.R. Gurney at his wistful best...
...think it's basically thought he's doing a superb job in rebuilding the department, which has been below its potential," says Gerald Jaynes, who chairs African-American Studies at Yale, where Gates was formerly a professor...
...DIRECTOR CALLS THE SHOTS; THE cinematographer shows you the light. In VISIONS OF LIGHT, a superb documentary by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy and Stuart Samuels, directors of photography are revealed as painters on film, Rembrandts with an Arriflex. The movie blends clips from Hollywood's wondrous black-and-white era with reflections by such modern masters as Michael Chapman ("A cinematographer's job is to tell people where to look"), Allen Daviau ("What's important are the lights that you don't turn on") and Conrad Hall ("There's a language far more complex than words"). If only the vast...