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...Yet the album’s 13 tracks aren’t just instrumentally sparser than past material; put simply, they’re also just not as catchy. Part of the problem is that they fail to develop their austere plucking into any grander themes, as the best selections from previous albums have managed to do. On 2004’s “I’d Rather Dance With You,” still their most perfectly crafted pop song to date, a stair-stepping piano outro elevates a jaunty beat to perfection; on 2001?...
Pamuk’s newest book, “The Museum of Innocence”—available to an English-speaking audience a year after its publication in Turkey—distills the sepia tones of his oeuvre into their purest and most poignant form yet. Readers looking for a follow-up to 2002’s “Snow,” a politically charged exploration of Islamic extremism, won’t find it here. Pamuk’s name took on a controversial coloring in the wake of that novel?...
...region has been designated by the nonprofit organization Conservation International as one of the 34 “hotspots” of biodiversity in the world. According to Boufford, these hotspots only occupy 2.5 percent of the globe’s surface yet account for 35 to 40 percent of the variety in the world’s plant species...
...fascinating project—doubtless a project only made possible by a genius like Roth’s—this fascination never translates to enjoyment. Nor does the admiration one may hold for Roth’s vaunted corpus ever translate to a redemptive case for yet another joyless, featherweight book from one of America’s greatest novelist. In 2004, the author, now 76, selected a biographer, in a gesture that suggests, like Gabriel García Márquez, that Roth is aware of his own mortality on the horizon. Though he already has another novel...
While both the lab and the committee have not yet decided how to fill his positions, Solomon said he strongly believed all would be well...