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The novel seems to be building toward a contemporary inversion of the Oedipus myth, in which the father would possess the son's bride. That impression is heightened by the best and perhaps most autobiographical scenes, as the narrator recalls a childhood of willful rudeness and neglect by his...
Bernard MacLaverty, in adapting his 1983 novel for the screen, has preserved a penetrating economy of story-telling. With his small cast of characters, MacLavery deftly illustrates the tensions between sides in the Northern Ireland conflict, presenting frail attempts at connection and willful acts of destruction. The division between the...
Meese clearly did select Edwin W. Thomas as an aide to his White House office after Thomas had offered Meese's wife an interest-free $15,000 loan. The loan was later granted, but Meese failed to report it on his financial-disclosure statements. Stein concluded that Thomas got...
If investigative interest subsides, the G.O.P. may try to revive it. As Ferraro knows well, when national figures come under suspicion, the public and press fasten on to the reputed rascals and do not easily let go. There can be a rather voyeuristic zeal about such searches for official wrongdoing...
Strouse defines this central conflict as the struggle between self-knowledge and innocence, and all the James children shared that pressure. But Alice had a second more immediate dilemma of her own. She realized that, on the one hand, she was too gifted and too willful to rival her mother...