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This is sad and eloquently written. It is also ugly. The trouble is not that Smith's fury lacks justification, nor even that all the novel's whites are pompous, silly do-gooders. The white, wannabe-Indian writer and the white, Indian "expert" professor whom Alexie satirizes are fair enough...
"One of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise, is Sherman Alexie," says TIME's John Skow. His latest book, Indian Killer (Atlantic Monthly Press; 420 pages; $22), is a murderous urban legend not calculated to calm anyone's racial unease. Rage builds slowly in the heart of John Smith...
For more than a century the Marine Corps' traditional eagle, globe and anchor tattoo has been rippling across the biceps and backs of Leathernecks. But lately, too many recruits are festooned with adornments too tasteless for even hardy jarheads. One Marine wannabe's temple, for example, bore tattoos of bullet...
IN THE '70S, GLIDING THROUGH SLAM-glam media roles--senatorial wannabe in The Candidate, screenwriter in The Way We Were, hotshot reporter in All the President's Men--Robert Redford gave some people the idea that he had missed his true calling: anchorman! He had it all: the authority and...
However, I do have some advice for all the of the Council, Guardians and Auxiliares of Peninsula (sounds like a wannabe militia, doesn't it?). If you were really as tough as you fancy yourselves to be, you would have called me what you really meant--probable nigger admit David...