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...novels like Gorky Park and Havana Bay, Smith has made a specialty of looking the wrong way through the gunsight, describing America's historical enemies with a vivid sense of place that complicates what we read in history books. Here Smith's 1940s Tokyo is so gloriously and tenderly realized, ringing with modan jazu (modern jazz) and the tinkling of geisha headdresses, that the reader understands the hold it has on Harry and the reason his loyalties are so tragically divided. His dilemma is the real mystery in December 6. After all, every story, like every war, has two sides...
...novels like Gorky Park and Havana Bay, Smith has made a specialty of looking the wrong way through the gunsight, describing America's historical enemies with a vivid sense of place that complicates what we read in history books. Here Smith's 1940s Tokyo is so gloriously and tenderly realized, ringing with modan jazu (modern jazz) and the tinkling of geisha headdresses, that the reader understands the hold it has on Harry and the reason his loyalties are so tragically divided. His dilemma is the real mystery in December 6. After all, every story, like every war, has two sides...
...Anatomy and the Figure.” Unlike Ellis’ works, which are far more visually disciplined, Baron’s paintings writhe before the viewer in red, black and the occasional touch of gray. In his two untitled works of 2001, Baron occasionally allows a vivid spurt of green or blue to peek through from beneath the painted surface...
Siebel’s grandfather’s journal entries, which Siebel has printed onto many of the collage panels, beg for visual representation, with references to such things as “the tantalizing water sky” and incredibly vivid passages: “Halfway to the polynia we came to some remarkably old ice. All about us was a chaos of piled up blocks, a great deal of it a dirty yellow which I fancied might easily be matched by mixing burnt sienna with charcoal gray.” These works show how the origins...
...from Chiang Mai several years ago. A wander through the daily afternoon market on Rungsiyanon Road offers a great window on Pai-style multiculturalism. Wizened Karen hill-tribe grandmas with dark turbans wrapped around their heads sell hand-embroidered crafts on the sidewalk. Teenage Lisu girls in their traditional vivid tunics and black trousers?accessorized with frilly pink socks and plastic sandals?use their motorcycles as shopping carts for the fresh produce sold by Shan and northern Thai curbside vendors. A robed and skull-capped young man peddles authentic chocolate croissants under a hand-lettered "Muslim Homemade" banner. His cousin...