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A Good Fall by Ha Jin
... cast of Chinese immigrants, express their feelings and the reasons for them bluntly. “I’d had two girlfriends before, but each had left me,” states the young man narrating the story “Choice,” and...
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Love Thy Labor
... many arty utopians from William Morris onward, reminds us that the manual trades have endured through many a nationwide bubble and bust. In fact, they may be the best bet right now for young people...
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The Change Biopics Need?
... of War and War and Remembrance. Lionel Barrymore was featured in the star-studded The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) as a determined and commendably homespun Andrew Jackson. Even 1942’s Tennessee Johnson...
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The Theory of Light and Matter
... Hole, the opening story in Andrew Porters debut collection, The Theory of Light and Matter, draws a blueprint for the nine that follow: A young man looks back on his suburban childhood...
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BUBBLE TROUBLE
... Crit”) train young people to produce “situational interventions” into culture that will make them millionaire pop stars virtually overnight. In other words, over the past five years, the span of...
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DISQUIET
... young children, Andrew and Lucy, forcing their way into the gardens of an isolated château in the French countryside. Having traveled from Australia to escape an abusive husband and father, they are...
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I Have Fun Everywhere I Go
... but you’re cooler than Toby Young and more credible than James Frey. You can be my big brother any day. ...
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MISREADING MINDS
... contract. Young’s discovery contributed directly to the experimental work on electrical impulses and nerve contraction that earned Andrew Fielding Huxley, John Eccles, and Alan Hodgkin the Nobel Prize...
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Adapt This
... Feyder, Pierre Chenal, and Jean Grémillon that their works were even grouped under the name poetic realism. Dudley Andrew, in his splendid study of this school, Mists of Regret: Culture and...
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He is Curious (Yellow)
... Students of publishing lore know that Andrew Wylie used to be a poet, but few have had the chance to peruse Yellow Flowers, a 1972 chapbook that collects some of the vaguely Mephistophelian...
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Dix and Dix: On "In a Lonely Place"
... introduction of a new woman into his life, (Laurel Gray, a glamorous bit actress played by Gloria Grahame), restore his professional and personal vitality. Ray and his screenwriters, Andrew Solt and Edmund...
