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...philosophy to life in general, while The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty, by Robyn Griggs Lawrence, helps you apply the principles of wabi-sabi to the place where you live. Wabi-sabi in the home, according to Lawrence, is "flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather and loving use leave behind." Although at first glance it may seem a bit shabby chic, a style that cultivates a worn patina, it differs in attitude, asking that...
...picked up heavyweight Holly-wood fans, from Brett Ratner, director of Chan's Rush Hour smashes, to Quentin Tarantino, who screened Ong-Bak at his home with his pal the RZA of the iconic rap group Wu-Tang Clan. "Tony is my homey, yo," says the RZA. "He's young, energetic--a new breed of martial artist born in the hip-hop generation...
...Fans of Murakami will find none of this unusual. Since Norwegian Wood, his 1989 tale of nostalgia and loss (4.5 million copies and counting), the former Tokyo jazz-club owner, now 56, has gained worldwide fame for his coolly narrated stories of odd disappearances, bizarre quests, disaffected youth and a Japan struggling with its wartime past. He is also noted for his nonfiction books about the 1995 Kobe earthquake and Tokyo subway gas attack, as well as his translations of works by American masters, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Raymond Carver. So vast is Murakami's fame that nearly...
...Kafka lacks the narrative consistency of Norwegian Wood and the noirish menace of his 1989 classic A Wild Sheep Chase. But what a tale! You never know when the cats will talk, the sky will rain sardines or yet another show-stopping character will step forward. In a Web poll of Japanese readers, most respondents said that if Kafka were dramatized, they would want to play Oshima, the librarian's impressively literate, transsexual assistant. Others preferred Hoshino, the earthy truck driver who helps the cat-talking old man in his quest to find a magic stone that can free...
...longtime girlfriend gave birth to their son. While James has promised to be the dad he never knew, some people are upset that he fed a stereotype: NBA players fathering out-of-wedlock children. "I was so mad at him when I found out about that," says Barb Wood, the librarian with whom James grew close, of his fatherhood. "He's just doing the same thing his mom did, having kids when she was just a kid. It's just repeating the cycle. He laughed for a few minutes when I told him he should marry his girlfriend. That...