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'Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics' by Rebecca Solnit
Storming the Gates of Paradise Landscapes for Politics Rebecca Solnit University of California Press: 416 pp., $24.95 By Bill McKibben Special to The Times In one of the best essays in this sterling collection, activist Rebecca Solnit describes...Tags: Globalization, Politics, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes
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Requiem: 2007 passings of note
Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...Tags: Eddie Robinson, Football, Johnny Carson, Dancing, Transportation Accidents
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Cusack's 'War, Inc.' finds its niche
Cause CÉlÈbreWHILE THE big-budget, large studio movies about the Iraq war all have tanked, John Cusack's intensely personal film, “War, Inc.,” has survived bad reviews to find an audience in its very limited theatrical release. Since "War, Inc." opened...Tags: Chuck Workman, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Arianna Huffington, Amazon.com Inc.
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Annual Hay Festival is one for the books
The small market town of Hay, nestled on the border between England and Wales, is an unlikely setting for one of the world's biggest book festivals. It has a population of less than 2,000, and the nearest train station is 30 miles away. Yet each year,...Tags: United Nations, John Updike, Festive Events, Christopher Hitchens, Boris Spassky
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Author Jeff Gordinier won't let Gen-X go down without a fight
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThese days, with a recession on the way, housing prices tanking, the Dow out of control and an unpopular war that won't seem to end, a lot of Americans are feeling uneasy and confused. Recent surveys show a majority think the nation is on what pollsters...Tags: Nirvana (music group), Mass Media, Britney Spears, Molly Ringwald, Celine Dion
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John Cheever: New volumes spotlight his life and work
"I shall not, for example, try to evoke a rhetorical chiaroscuro of an intellect suspended in the twilight of the last divine monarchy, exposed to the philosophies of anarchy, communism and socialism, stricken by a loss of free speech; an intelligence...Tags: Alice Munro, John Updike, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Wildlife, Forests
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Salinger, Pynchon & Co.: When writers are recluses
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThey wait like pilgrims, queuing silently, bearing volumes for inscription and awaiting a chance to touch the hem of his garment. They're not Franciscans approaching Assisi but earnest readers rushing bookstores and cultural temples for word -- wisdom,...Tags: Pink Floyd (music group), Gaming, Fiction, Alice Munro, Roland Barthes
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'Will You Take Me as I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period' by Michelle Mercer
Will You Take Me as I Am Joni Mitchell's Blue Period Michelle Mercer Free Press: 240 pp., $24.99 When Joni Mitchell thinks about confession, two things come to mind: witch hunts and Catholic priests. To be held up as the exemplar of confessional...Tags: James Joyce, Neil Young, Politics, Annie Dillard, Freedom of the Press
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Secret Loves and Worries
Times Staff WriterThe dead do tell tales. And the loved ones of those killed or presumed dead in last month's attack on the World Trade Center are coming across some surprising stories--a few pleasant, others poignant--as they empty apartments and sift through the...Tags: Fiction, American Express Company, Death, Terrorism, Science
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He's No Longer a Lone Voice in the Conservative Wilderness. But the Letters, Columns and Books Keep Coming.
Scott Kraft is the National Editor of The TimesIt's been a half century since a young firebrand named William F. Buckley Jr. burst onto the political scene with "God and Man at Yale," a scathing indictment of his liberal alma mater. By age 30, he had founded the conservative magazine National Review,...Tags: Politics, John F. Kennedy, Sociology, World War II (1939-1945), Richard Nixon
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The Patriotic Heresies of the One and Only Gore Vidal
The summer of 1948, Gore Vidal found himself keeping track of Truman Capote's lies. "I don't know why," he later remarked. "As I was the only one who found them offensive, why should I have cared?" There was the Andre Gide lie, in which the maitre pressed...Tags: Rome (Italy), Truman Capote, Politics, Death, Satire (genre)
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Writers as rogues and role models
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEarly in his career, an aspiring novelist faces a moment when he must decide to take his vocation seriously or else remain a dreamer, unpublished and unconsidered. Michael Mewshaw's occurred in the office of legendary Random House editor Albert Erskine....Tags: George Lucas, Rome (Italy), Anthony Burgess, Eudora Welty, Star Wars (movie)
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