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...crowd. “If you had written a song called ‘Red Sox in Five,’ would you be singing it now?” Despite the fragility of the Cubs’ post-season hopes, Darnielle plunged into the simple song, a tale of impossibility and frustration. All this baseball mopery may not seem relevant, but it’s what made the Mountain Goats show so touching. For me, at least. I’m sure there were people in the crowd who had just gone through a horrendous break-up, or bombed...
...than their small number implies.This new exhibit is organized by Mary McWilliams, the Calderwood curator of Islamic and later Indian art, and Sunil Sharma, a senior lecturer at Boston University, and will be on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum until Feb. 10, 2008.Rather than relaying the famous tale of ill-fated lovers Layla and Majnun in its entirety, “On the Path of Madness” focuses exclusively on Majnun, portraying him as he was understood in three countries—with differing degrees of clarity. The exhibit seems to derive more meaning from its historical...
...novels. More recently, W.G. Sebald sprinkled his prose with photographs in “The Emigrants.” And Ackerman’s speculations on Antonina’s diary entries are reminiscent of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s “A Midwife’s Tale.” But what is striking about this book is that the patchwork is not nearly as seamless as that of its predecessors. The constant—and abrupt—changes between narrative voices make the book an occasionally disconcerting read. Still, it is an apt representation...
...says a third. A popular e-mail going around shows a photograph of Musharraf and Bhutto doctored to look as if they are the happy couple at a traditional Pakistani wedding ceremony. The Supreme Court ruling is just the latest plot twist in an ongoing drama. "This is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing," says...
...Kenya, a woman with the disease may have no hope at all unless she can travel elsewhere for treatment. "You just sit and wait for your death," Mary Onyango, a Kenyan breast-cancer patient, told Time. Her story and those of many others illuminate an alarming tale--but a tale that is, in the end, also one of great hope...