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Music. Flight. Racism. The tales in Ralph Ellison's posthumous collection of short fiction, Flying Home and Other Stories (173 pages; Random House; $23) deal with a variety of issues, but certain concerns pop up repeatedly, variations on compelling melodies. Characters in different stories burst into song; birds and airplanes...
He will have to wrestle with the big issues that are plaguing the whole of German industry, not just its automakers: unit labor costs that are among the highest in the world, productivity that's been overtaken by many rivals and worries about losing its technological edge. In a blunt...
ONE TO WATCH: “Floating Clouds.” Based on a novel by female writer Fumiko Hayashi, often considered as Naruse’s muse, the film is recognized as one of Japan’s greatest tales of obsessive love, a story of woman bound by...
"It has been only in the last two decades that the living have been in the habit of marrying the dead," writes Link in The Great Divorce. One of current fiction's little-known treasures, she spins her stories in such charming, matter-of-fact tones that you almost don...
Our cover story on the way women baby boomers are facing the turning point of middle age prompted readers to share their tales of transformation, self-discovery and starting over. Some women argued against waiting until 50 to break loose from life's confines. And some men felt just plain...