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Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda by Jean-Philippe Stassen, a Belgian who lives in Rwanda, makes the greatest impression of this first round of books. First there is its setting, modern Rwanda, just after the ethnic massacres of 1994 that left 800,000 people dead in 100 days. Rich in authentic cultural and environmental detail, the book's authority is established within a few pages, putting you in a world never seen before in the medium. A harrowing tale about a madman, Deogratias, who imagines himself a dog, the story moves back and forth in time before and after...
...declined to comment for this article) came to them. A college-admissions counselor liked her writing at 17 and put her in touch with the William Morris Agency. Her agent suggested she work with Alloy to develop a reader-friendly concept. Coincidentally, she and Alloy hit on a tale about an Indian-American teen who applies to Harvard, is told she has to prove she has a social life, hatches a plan to get one but realizes she has made a mistake by trying to be someone...
Take this post from the blog Boston Confidential: "Miss Viswanathan’s story is based on her own life, a tale of an ultra-achieving Indian girl whose ambitions seem boundless and whose (apparently) Machiavellian methods are perhaps too eagerly rewarded by over-indulgent parents." Replace "Indian" with another category (besides "East Asian," which has a similar reputation)—try it with, say, "French"—and this claim doesn’t quite make sense...
...Jazz Age. And it is quite likely, though I’ve never been to it, that the Fly’s annual Gatsby party is neither nostalgic nor ironic. Yet to read “Gatsby,” as Mahtani does, as a merely cautionary tale is to miss the genius of the novel. For “Gatsby” acquires its true tragic dimensions not only through its devastating social critique but also through its celebration of the beauty of Gatsby’s dream—its exuberance, its optimism, its irrepressibility—even...
Directed by Paul Greengrass Universal Pictures 5 stars How do you make a movie about a day most people will never forget? In “United 93,” director and screenwriter Paul Greengrass tells the tale, already becoming an integral part of the American psyche, of a few short hours on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Sitting in my seat before the movie started, I was already tense. As a resident of lower Manhattan, I, like other New Yorkers, felt deeply touched by that day. Indeed, I had found it hard to even watch the trailer...