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Ford’s characters are aimed at a certain caste of modern readers. Lawyers, psychologists and professors populate these stories. In portraying their lives, Ford writes about what he calls “conflicted gossip about people doing what you yourself would like to be doing.?...
During the Olympics in Sydney in 2000, for example, I recall a moving tale of a Kenyan middle-distance runner who perservered in the face of civil war, poverty and famine. The considerable complexity of many of the winter sports leads to less dramatic tales. A human-interest story at...
Early in the 1900s, Japan began sponsoring excavations in Korea for two purposes: to bring back valuable objects and to use these artifacts to justify its eventual annexation. Says Waseda University's Sungsi: "What the Japanese wanted to stress was that Japanese and Korean roots are the same and that...
“Crazy Glue,” one of Keret’s most hauntingly beautiful tales, which is unforgivably omitted from this collection, begins with an adulterous husband who asks his wife why she bought special glue. “‘For the same reason I...
“Crazy Glue,” one of Keret’s most hauntingly beautiful tales, which is unforgivably omitted from this collection, begins with an adulterous husband who asks his wife why she bought special glue. “‘For the same reason I...