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The music on Fleck's new CD, "Tales from the Acoustic Planet," is not simply to be defined as bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, funk or classical. It sounds something like jazz, but it's scored like classical and played on a banjo. Fleck has sculpted an acoustically-based musical style...
YOUR DECONSTRUCTION OF PHILIP K. Howard's antiregulatory book, The Death of Common Sense, was right on [Ideas, April 10]. I seriously doubt that Howard wanted to dig too deep into the facts behind his sketchy anecdotes about regulatory mischief. He is working squarely in the tradition of other zealots...
Reading Helprin's marvelously imaginative tales has always required wafting along with a flood of eloquence and accepting that floods are by nature excessive. There are few authors of whom it is less profitable to ask what in the world he may be getting at. Among novelists who fall into...
Though her editor forced her to return to the Net to finish her book, Herz has since resurfaced in the real world -- for good. She joins the growing ranks of disillusioned refugees who ventured into cyberspace and have now made the long march back. They bring tales of unmet expectations...
Is there anything Jane Smiley cannot do? In between writing penetrating tales of domestic heartbreak (in novellas such as The Age of Grief), she tossed off a 582-page novel that drew upon her knowledge of Old Icelandic (The Greenlanders). Now, having won the Pulitzer Prize and a permanent place...