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...Last year's champion, Jenson Button, and 2008 winner Lewis Hamilton, both Brits, are driving for McLaren. Schumi's back and trying to win another championship at 41. Red Bull, last year's runner-up in the constructor's race, has a quick young German driver named Sebastian Vettel whose nickname is Baby Schumi. With Alonso and Felipe Massa behind the wheel, Ferrari is again a strong contender, and Ferrari, by general consensus and its own elevated self-image, is the beating red heart of F1. Three out of 4 fans who follow a team are Ferrari fans...
...rooster for no good reason is wracked by guilt and fevers. In "Scarecrow," a dissolute husband jounces his wife's pregnant belly with a spiteful kick. Elsewhere, villagers are stricken with tuberculosis, malaria or opium withdrawal. But at least they're alive, unlike the unnamed refugee from the North whose worm-riddled corpse is mentioned in passing in the second section of the book. (See pictures of Seoul: the world's most connected city...
...Toad" is less sympathetic a creature. A perfectly satanic villain - a man of wealth and taste with oiled hair, a serge suit and breath that reeks of grilled beef, garlic and soju - he schemes with a skinflint landlord in Seoul to con a starving old buddy whose family appears to survive on an occasional sweet potato...
...hero is a graduate student in art history named Verlaine, who's doing research on behalf of a mysterious client. Said research takes him to a convent in upstate New York, where he meets Evangeline, a bookish young nun whose chaste habit conceals a passionate heart. Verlaine and Evangeline feel an unspoken connection. She's got the secret coded documents he's looking for. If you know what I mean. And I think...
...adapted children's classics (Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), he's confected his own scary, sweet bedtime fables (Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride). The typical hero of these films is a naïf who stumbles into a world that threatens or baffles him and whose armor against its denizens is his innocence. Granted, that's the plot of many children's books, from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to The Lord of the Rings. But it also suggests that Burton has been making variations on Carroll his whole career. His new Alice in Wonderland...