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...already established himself as an elite member of the community of American fiction. Where “Chronic City” falters is in its failure to adequately deal with its own extra-textual subtext.Wild animals are a repeated motif throughout the novel. A tiger that may or may not actually be some sort of digging machine rampages through the city, destroying whole buildings and causing general inconvenience. A pair of bald eagles seem to hunt Abneg, and at one point, a whale makes its way up the East River nearly to Hell’s Gate before dying.This motif...
Bethpage is synonymous with golf. The host of the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Open—the former witnessing a strong late-tournament surge by Phil Mickelson, only to finish three strokes back of Tiger Woods—Bethpage seems a fitting place to kick off the 2009 campaign for Harvard men’s golf. Channeling the prowess of the golf legends who had walked the course before them, the Crimson improved on last year’s ninth-place finish by placing fifth—tied with host St. John?...
...Read "The Tiger Trap...
...curls - and his sentences - clipped. He was "very pleased and flattered" by his CBE and extols a recent stint teaching at Yale as "very comfy." But his spot in the cultural establishment is proof that his revolution succeeded. He's about to start on the screenplay of The White Tiger, the Booker Prize winning novel by Indian author (and occasional TIME contributor) Aravind Adiga. That a story about a poor Indian hustling his way in Bangalore sold millions of copies all over the world, notes Kureishi, shows that post-colonial fiction has reinvigorated the novel. (See Aravind Adiga's Summer...
...that this diminishes Yang's victory. When asked why he seems able to stand up to the game's greatest player when so many others fall flat, Yang joked Sunday that "I know Tiger isn't going to beat me up on the green. I just play cool and easy." But Yang also believes in his ability, saying that his success is no fluke. Going head to head against the mighty Woods is "something I sort of visualized quite a few times, playing with him in the final round of a major championship," Yang said after his earth-shattering victory...