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...Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Selina Hastings, the acclaimed biographer of the novelists Evelyn Waugh and Rosamond Lehmann, has written a magnificent, gripping account of the contrarieties that were held together in Maugham's personality. An aloof, private socialite; a socialist patriot who loved titles and the aristocracy; one of the most famous writers on both sides of the Atlantic for half a century but never recognized by the critical intelligentsia. Hastings exposes the polarities. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...good chunk of the FHA's portfolio, though - nearly 40% - is made up of loans written over the past 12 months. In a way, that's a boon, since lenders have tightened their standards and as a result have sent higher-quality loans to the FHA. During the housing boom, more than a third of the loans the agency insured went to subprime borrowers; today, fewer than...
...allowing stronger strains to spread to Burma, India and Africa. But this time there's no new wonder drug waiting in the wings. "It would be unspeakably dire if resistance formed to artemisinin," says Amir Attaran, a professor of law and medicine at the University of Ottawa who has written extensively on malaria issues...
...aesthetic comprehensively rejected by the record-buying public, if the album sales of most “Idol” winners are any indication. The key to Underwood’s prior success was that she discarded the vocal theatrics prized by Randy Jackson for solid, conventional country music written by hardened Nashville pros like Josh Kear and Hillary Lindsey. “Play On,” by contrast, features the talents of a murderer’s row of pop songwriters: Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Chantal Kreviazuk and—now it all begins to fall into place?...
...just one of many confused and impetuous males to find themselves uncomfortably put on the spot by Ivy League graduate student named Sara. Krasinski’s eponymous adaptation of a 1999 short story collection by the late David Foster Wallace takes the blunt emotional starkness of the written interviews and puts them into motion on the screen in such a way that the audience can’t help but feel directly addressed by each subject. The film—a short 80-minute affair made up of strung-together interview segments—doesn’t hold...