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Memorable Claxton images include a young Charlie Parker in the Claxton home, John Coltrane in the Guggenheim Museum and Art Pepper walking up a steep hill on his release from prison. Claxton's last assignment was a cover portrait of Bob Dylan for the just-released album Tell Tale Signs...
These material and structural differences between the Depression era and the crisis we face today are significant. But the most important and consequential differences lie in the realms of ideas and attitudes, especially regarding the role of government. Consider what might be called "the tale of two Secretaries." Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (along with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who presides over an immeasurably more potent Federal Reserve system than existed in 1929) has acted with vigor to bring the full powers of the Federal Government to bear in the current crisis. In dramatic contrast, when Herbert Hoover asked...
...extraordinary story of how Israeli detectives built a case against Golan and his alleged cohorts is the subject of Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land by Nina Burleigh, a former TIME staffer who now writes for People. In fast, noir-ish prose - imagine Sam Spade in the Holy Land - Burleigh tracks her story through the twilight world of Arab grave robbers and smugglers to the glimmering salon of a billionaire collector in Mayfair whose mission, writes Burleigh, is "proving the Bible true." Past accounts of the James ossuary are fiercely partisan, written...
...Indeed, Adiga's book is extraordinarily accomplished. The tale of an Indian servant who kills his boss, it's written with wit and panache and crackles with a kind of joyfully subversive energy. Yet it is also a shocking portrait of Indian corruption and social injustice at a time when the media has tended to focus on sunnier tales of the nation's economic transformation. Sitting beside Adiga in a taxi after the event, he told me that he had initially struggled to write the book in the third person and had then rewritten it in just 40 days...
...Cancer is indeed all the rage. Nevertheless, this is the one trend you don't want to follow. It is an all-consuming beast which comes uninvited and changes your life forever. If you survive to tell the tale, your life changes for the better. At 21 years old, I have very recently slain this beast after a relatively brief encounter with it. I consider myself lucky. Chemotherapy and radiation used to eradicate Hodgkin's lymphoma might make you look really unattractive, make you feel like a miserable pile of nothing and bring forth an array of various other discomforting...