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...some point in the past year, people asked themselves the question, When is it O.K. to stop crying and start laughing again? Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel, Everything Is Illuminated (Houghton Mifflin; 276 pages), is a very funny book about very tragic times, and it's just a little bit nervous about being so funny. After one comic aside, the narrator--a Ukrainian would-be hipster (and remedial English student) named Alexander Perchov--feels as if he has to reassure his audience: "It was not wrong to make a funny here. It was the right thing...
...decade, Anton La Guardia was the Middle East correspondent for the Daily Telegraph of London. In 'War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land' (May), La Guardia has provided a thoroughly unbiased examination of the centuries-old struggles endured by Israel and Palestine. After the tragic attacks of 9/11, most Americans have been asking, "Why do they hate us?" The answer, several centuries in the making, surrounds how the U.S. involvement in the Middle East, as a close friend of Israel and a strong business partner with the Arab world, has left this country...
...swells suddenly into an awesome Wagnerian attack replete with synthetic symphony, choir and ovation. True to their name, Anti-Pop’s music borders on the absurd, thriving on its excesses. Arrhythmia is the consortium’s best work yet, eschewing the muffled bleakness of their debut Tragic Epilogue for an all-out attack on the senses...
...plot moves towards an inevitably tragic conclusion, strange alliances form, as between Sweeney and Lovett—who realize a gruesomely efficient way to capitalize on the barber’s growing bloodlust and Lovett’s need to add “something special” to her failing pie business...
Therein lies the true horror of Sweeney Todd. Though the play’s tragic ending is itself disturbing, the fact that the audience sympathizes with the perpetrators of such bloodshed is exponentially more disturbing...