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Language and metaphor dominate Winterson's writing, which includes such well-received novels as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body. Her storytelling, however, gets lost in tales that at times seem written by a poet forced that to write fiction. Revealingly her...
What the Congo could be has been obvious since British explorer Lieut. Verney Cameron captivated Belgium's King Leopold in 1876 with tales of riches. The soil is fertile. There are giant stretches of tropical wood, and an estimated $58 billion of mineral wealth is in the ground.
By now, tales from this televised traveling carnival of collectibles, where folks have their cherished trinkets and ancestral hand-me-downs professionally appraised, are legendary. There's Claire Wiegand-Beckmann, the retired New Jersey schoolteacher whose beloved wooden table, bought for $25 in 1965, turned out to be a John...
Children's stories are often tales of desperate travels through far-off lands. In Iranian films, the terrain is typically the child's own hometown. And the potential tragedy can be as simple as being left alone at school, as in Panahi's deliciously devious The Mirror. Or, as in...
For Hollywood, history has always been what it likes to call "underlying material," a lode of legend, conveniently located in the public domain, from which it can quarry inspirational tales of resistance to tyranny, redemption from injustice. From The Life of Emile Zola to Braveheart, audiences bedeviled by the ambiguities...