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Alter visting Portugal, began to ead Ferman Peston, "The Book of Disc™ 1s, wel dsquoting somotimes boring, ‘stmetines contrary but most atten ey ‘pening and unique. ‘Whats your favorite Book no one else has ard of? “Tho Zbaldone”by Giacomo Taldogardo Francice dl Sales Saverio Peto Leopar {dLAtrp to Recanaa to visit his childhood ‘home's ary fed me to this mammoth compilation of philosophical, cranky. ‘dark ria enti, a personal and unforgettable commonplace book, ‘What book should nobody read unt the age of 407 “My Sirugal” by Karl Ove Knausgnard allt ane Linow ae ver 8 ‘You're known for your bos seling tlogy of Tuscan memoirs, beginning with “Under the Tuscan Sun” Which writers would you recommend to somebody who rants to learn more abot ein Hal? ‘Beppe Svergnin and Tim Parks are ‘ste nonfiction writers on contempo- ‘ry Tl. Jan Morn is otto be missed Fallintove with Itstinn ite by reading my favorite insight and re neton wet ors: Natalia Ginabury, Cosare Paves {Gls poetry), Leonardo Sclascia, Nice ‘ues, Giuseppe Tomas di Lampedusa, alo Calvino, Elsa Morante, Unbeto co, Elena Ferrante, beto Moravia, rin Lev Ave there travel writers you especlally ‘mire? Lawrence Durell and Patrick Leigh Fermor gave me the esse Greoce. Freya Stark bravely sruck ot for Arab uti in he 180 and wrote exau- sie about er journeys. Ann Cor. olism “Torregrec? tld me what 1 Would not ae Known aut tho south of Italy Patience Gray also wrote eco: Lely about the south (Pug) in Honey From a Weed” MEK, Fister as boon long companion. "Deep Rivers by Fst Marta Arguedas, revealed Peru. WB. Yeats gave me Ireland, Isak Diesen ‘Africa Orhan Pamuk Istanbul, nd Kato Simon th ibstven towne of ay Recenty ound syle Bedford wit" Vist to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey ‘which made me homesick fora rave era When surprise and unprdictabity ware ens cold write a book about ll the titers ove who have fet dan 0 plces not ther ov What's the best book youve ever received as a lt? When Iwas in high school my mother rota iterary person, ound ona depart. ops of the first Variorumeaion ofthe ows of Wiliam Butler Yeats, signed by the poet. se remembered that Tread him and bought both copes. gave one to ny fiend who also loved Yeats and for otf us that giant vlume hasbeen & felon treasure. Now and then Tope it snd tae at his erabbed signature ‘Your organizing a terry dlaner party: Which three writers, dead or alive, do sou invitee W.. Sebald, Vigna Woot Joa Keats. (Or would tat be too sedate? Is amen alter all with ood vino. Maybe Oscar ‘Wild, Zora Neale Hurston and Gabriel (Garets Marquee. Disappoitig, overrated, just at good: DH. Lawrence’ "Sea and Sardinia” and "Furuse Places” sobiliant in ashes. He had a genus fr sense of place, ut his avo narrativos are mae By poly ‘areas, Must have been dreary ‘eave eampanion. ‘What books are you embarrassed not to have ead yer? 1am assured that wil love “Moby Dick iF just give myself another chance ‘What do you plan tread next? "Moby. Dick"? Not yet Whatever tps next Plan? Eepp? Denmark? Fbe immersed inthe boks by writers who call that place home. o ‘an expanded version ofthis interview ‘alle at nytinescom/ bookssaullinrsTeN UP / / BY SEBASTIAN MODAK Wild, True Tales sa ven rt, Pn sualy stoning oa east one alo. book, decenpaast seies bums. Aste soundtrack to my Ait ie nas contnaed taba, ve recemly sare to wonder: How do we cmpartmenalie so many comping smu? How lows te bran organize call? AS both aos and paces nine to surg in poplar, 1 segue its becoming lest and ess ‘ear were those slassteations fall— and whether aesieton ‘These three naw audlobooks might make you reconsider the ogres no which publishers “he journalist Pare addon Keefe has made a eareer ot of deep dives i fascinating char fears and bes very god a Inberween his regular contrib ons to THe New Yorke teas published an exp of the Sack tee amuly and an account ofthe Troubles in Northern ireland ‘har 0 eling stoned oat Nowe A, 15 hors, 28 mato, wore trated to tho cae evel Journalistic igor and the same Bron for beans open mys ‘eres, nan nis ie ae package Rogues” compls 1 yeas srothotlngtorm aries Rete ns wen for The Now York, vein his pede forthe ‘margins of what We conser ae ‘pra socey From ane profile Sng: subjects nce a Synan arms desler criminal skeen lawyer spcetzing into ned globe ote Anthony Bou ‘hain Bt in each there comm ‘mento tling he whol story, rd eveagalldmensons of pet fondest the batons ners ve When st oe oma very incentive mot alk "Then re wid tales but they're all te Keefe says inthe Inerdcrion, almost si he im ‘Tapers 2 Dice reer in 208. too outrageous tobe reat Inahe ‘ce ofthe author, who aso Change" the narratives sound les Ike magazine preces and ‘mor Hk tho kind favre, Ayman storytling weve come to assole the mos erp Plngand exhausively researched podeass thats not the care for Max Cite the author of CUES imide te Thom Simon A Shinto Au, 1 founder of Paras, podeast sto known for churning ot ‘nero popular tru camo Programs, and so pertape pre fda, Cute tele ike ap ttre ito bok, rather than teeter way orond Esch ofthe 10 ehapors lows a dir ‘mat brie ineodton lowed ty chrmologl deep dive, eppete with momen ey Charles Mansons decribed a= ‘xing "4 nearly comple tool ‘of riminal psychology” Ado de Jes Constanza leader othe Mexicoshsed"Norcosatanits introduced as “aruahly she most dll and ystematcally toed thirsty" of al ult eaders. This auiobook pas nthe fled the meteorie rise of tru {rime sales ver the past de otc wall The srl here are auseaing, tragic. and tery ‘iv. The produto read the quality of narration vanes runt Bus each chapter takes onthe predictable are of Dosis pod ving Yoo Waning to goomto the next one Imumeatarey In printed form, 1 ould see "Cs" coming across estoo surface eve it book for your most macabre rend. But iethrives ina form —even thats jst because ends Up Suing ike a podcast a8. op: posed tothe st bok by a pod ‘wanted o immerse myelin Something completly erent: Something tat would ay sere elt as itn fom ee that, [turned to BONSAI engin sroundbreaking 2006 novella by Zambra, now bein released ina tow transntion by Mlgan Me Dowel an ey Gta Chie, Bonsal”is apiece of trate twat erties Other ators Sd tris are woven through te fers that ld togother the nial love sory between Jia and Ei. Early nthe tr. thy eo each the for heist tie, bth ening to have rend Mare Prous In Search of Ing books and poems outloud taker on the etilating” proper tesa repay. Theres eto to surprised buen “Bonsa” as the trst minute Thi is“ ae tal that becomes hese Cpe ‘of humor chat permeates her ‘magnificent narration. Bi ith eh dete, dite rat Plots he po "Bons" sa Feaing, one ths eases ods pre ong afer he last words are ken And all that nde ume takes to isten oan episode of This Amore Life" A SEARING TALE OF POWER, JUSTICE, AND THE z iY 4 z > q 7 4 a E 4 q i a PRICE OF LOYALTY ON KRAKAUER,‘©.WAR STORIES / sowermes stan athe books of miltary history beng Dublised are about sore aspect ff Wet War IT gemcraly ry vod these works Because there ae so many oer conics to fees Bit on ooason eve UP nd uy tplck out afew god rks rom te seaming ood. "Tere away’ room onthe books fora sd ace of how atop commander handed hsparcaravar whichis pre- cisely what te veteran naval historian Cra Symonds deivors hrm Peart Hatboro ake ey (Ceterdtnnerty 2828) ‘Symonds foes on sone nt be ualiles of Adm. Chester Nimitz the senor Navy fice in tho Pace in World War I Fis, Nima postesed the erable ably to wor clmly and pe "oy hal sore of peopl taking eimmand ofthe Naya ear Harbar Jus weeks afer the Japanese aac here, Nini tld tho rated members othe head fares staf" have compete onfiene in your ability ana Judgment — and then shook the hands each one. His abit 0 veg amin data probly favoas nate and ake some hance. In 198, he gabe ‘esl in approaching 90 roca es bates athe Cra Sea and near May Ilan, Sueno WAS in he si during the war seams On the shee side ofthe planet conten Plating death otore going no bate forthe fst ie, James Gavin wrote ine wartime cry, Stake the cles sks” Gavin was one a the most ner esting Army generals othe ora. egrew up pally ivan orphans age and dropped out of seal the eighth gra, but managed as nenisted soit std ms vray imo West Pan He Was promoted to brigadier general at to tender ag 03. Dory Uestent Cone ames iter istry lar he {har of he frthcoming Magna Gon Wars itary Ito he (ha Rigs Aoneent, 19541086" /BY THOMAS E. RICKS. World War II Revisited cin (scomat $24.95) provides 2 Ivey septa His ary espialy nob forts sepia has Army "Our arly i wor def nd eu corps not he erote in 1945. "Bethe eae Intanty erie, Everyone wants tolvetoarpecld age” ‘Ad. Chester Nein 14, “rose room Foor sot oH likly would have disagree. Ina strong ow vor, A MACHNE cuNNER's War From eran teeter With eave $3495), cneo the, Enos Andres lls he ele ofhisawn struggle to fight and furvive ss an unheralded in fantryman, “lst oe arate graduating from high shoal in Chatanooes, Tenn, Andrews Was geting ready tofand on Omaha Beachas part tthe Ali invasion of Prance oo Sone 6194. His D-Day began vt seeing two avi aden Soldiers tying to climb down from tei ship bur instead ting ‘Tous surprise, the hardest fehtng he experienced came not In Normandy but ae, as is unit neared Germany. none allright Artie na thunderstorm, Shiden ot of ign mina fd two German elder just st foot aay preparing kl hi esse them bth When an anne, eturmed ad sun Ares of smal eaters nthe erent wal bind hi made by Aer one igh, Andrews no tied a newiy ten enemy being ‘scored from the fone ines. ‘Watching hi ed back wo the rear asi prisoner, reflected how Tek he waa out fhe fang” tthe more formate othe 20 rion solders taken prise fhving the war The key fot shout heir imprisonment was how varied twas As Bob Moor emeritus professor of isto ft England’ Univers of Setfeld deserves thei exper: ences in his encyloedic Ps (extenders st) te best Place tobe a POW. was Canada, tehere German soliersenoyed bor halls soccer feds and well: ‘Soke ibraries. medical sur ‘ey found tat none stockade, the average captive gained 54 Iiograms over 10 months BY fentrast some Ruan prsoners tthe Germans and sme Gere an prisoner ofthe Russians Wee ed by famine to engage ‘nna, Moore's econ is competent ut deh pus when eating witha Subject as oman ‘ined as Wold War PON. amps especially in fms ike "The Great Escape” and "Stalag, He Tae numbers he ress are min bogling Of the 37 milion Red Army sors taken prisoner bythe Germans during the wat, "Lami ded neat. The Russians treated everyone dl oat stringy these on returned prisoners. Those ‘tho surrendered without fi, Veieh someimes was unavoxs ‘be, wer dered traitors. One Russian woman — there were ‘ver one milion female inthe Red Atmy — reported tha after She was berated frm the Nak, fhe und her comrades bad been treated worse y our own so ‘ers than had by the Ger Soicturs ot that once asin, there is indeed more sy aot ‘Work War I Unioranates, tc oreo he hard Tess tha thee sno end tothe vay in whieh uman beings canBreaking Ground An absurdist novel imagines the aftermath of a natural disaster i ‘By DANCHAON ADAM LEVIN'S EXPANSIVE NEW NOVEL be {ins wih a high concept catastrophe. One {dyin Novernber 202 crater opens pin ‘Chicagoandswallowsaswathor Mienigan ‘Avenue, along with many thousands peopl isa umelysetupinhisage of Ssters beyond parc. and Levin homes in Inlariusty on the lame ofl response. ‘Themayorand his PR peoplecallthe nex: pleable disastor a "erresrial anomaly Shee the euphemism seismic event has uthquakian overtones” and the term, ‘ounr eneaco Byadam ne 5829p Dandy. $20, Stakes “made you think swamps and {they mode jou thnk of amps. Seampy armpits. Meth, opossums, tush... Peo ‘loin mourning dd not necd wat ‘Among the mourners 5 one Solomon (Gladman, asad ack creative writing pro fessor, prizewinning novelist and under sround stand-up comedian. Gladman on. fie family — hi we, parent, sists ices and nepiew — peckses fn the fomaly leaving him in & daze of ago phobic fl, bered ou on Xanax and ‘whiskey. He considers sulci, but cant Tring hinsel to abandon his pet paret, ‘hic ss attached o Gladman ht ibe ‘Bis to sltmutlate when Gladman ist round. 50 Gladman resins himsolt to Staying alive ntl the parot has ved out sii “Meanwhile, young Apter Schutz nas be come the mayor righthand man. apteris kind of evatar of meritocracy. Though hh only nls 2, a lng, rambling pr. ‘on of "Mount Chicago” devoted to his many ventures sn sucenses. fn eallege, ‘ie trying to ase money forthe Berne Sanders ampatgn, Apter comes up witha Scheme to cell patrioue page-adayealon drs that appeal to MAGA zealots and ‘wie nationalists: the products are 50 ‘lly Steeassful that he becomes 8 mal Honaie before te age of 22 iter seine {he calendar busines foray pti, he ‘censor $5 lloninerypceurroney Speculation, vests with his sister Ia a ‘al poss and becomes success py ‘hotherapist In short, Apter asa mach ‘more productive third doen han st of tan this seven forse si om th {he mayors tie anomaly, Apter sklleareputtothetestas Ieelps the mayor raise uns ora memo "al park for he wits an he eso to ‘meet with the Lltpaloora co-owners An uct she ethor af soon work of eto, ning most recent the novel ‘lpwaik” Emanuel and Pery Farrel inhopesofset- ting upa benefit concert. Apter convinces “Emel and arvell tha one ofthe head liners should be noe eter tha he co- ‘median Scorn Gladrsan — When Apter tas adiped and been inftvenced by ance ho was in middle sehooL BuL now Apter must persuade the reclusive Gladman 10 “Mount Chicago is one of those seep ing, plyponie,absurdt epic novels ke they use tomake-— think forexompl, of "x Confederacy of Dunes” or "The Bon fieothe Vanes" though tome Levin Imost closely resembles his follow Chie ‘cagoan Stanley Elkin Like Ekin, eas 8 boisterous yet mournfal sensi le tem backed with vaudevile sick te Ekin, e has a git for the ef and thee ‘gression telabyrinthine shagey dogjoke that roves and ranges uni youve smost forgcten te setup. Trike Ekin Levin doesntalways know wn enough is enouuh There is strong, Infinite Jest energy bere, which while ‘ten britany, ean verge on a "Quentin ‘Tarantino an Pal Thomas Anderson do- in vein togthr” sort of ibe. Tore ‘yoke, tld by Claman, tht goes on or Eb Pages) « mealctional chapter in which Dlctue his face when they Tread about Gladrian or Apter section about ba tenders winocan choose your perfect ink Just by ooking at you; Fong Ssdes about the dated eevisionshow “Entourage ad theactor Mat Dillon; andan extended 2 about David Mamet's opinion on Spi Borg “Scindirs List” Theres no daub Levin has a boisterous yet ‘mournful sensibility, nihilism backed with vaudeville etek, that Lovina ited wit anda master of reparte, but even with heist coma ‘ans, ta crtain point te orehesiea stars playing nd someone backstage slookng Forthe curtain hook. Despite its cecasionally exasperating solndulgence, Mount Chicago” has pas ‘ages of real charm ana brane. MY Ta. ‘ort sections are the chapters rom the Doin of view of Gladmar’s pare, Gogo, which manages a very comvneing, be {mely comic nd heartbreaking evocation of abit perspective. loved te chaptrs ‘onthe mayor a George Saunders ke re ‘lon who wants the memorial fo be “our Jess depressing Auschvit” and. who Imagines being pealsed by Barack Obama “What an amaviny leap of yonius your rind had to take to even come up with the ‘aneopatal ramewark of tho park a al, Duttnis wall? Nonparalell.~ rT may use ‘your own words to desta to you what this survivor's wall mean to me, I would ‘everbe fea his: Ircrosses my wonder Ta the dosing secon, when Apter and “Glan inal meet, te autor achieves a sustained, operatic balance of comedy, [vetand despairthatsworthehe wai 2 genuinely” breathtaking aeueverent ‘and brought ters to my eyes. Those ast. ‘hundred pages showed me te kind ofmoe- lth talented ators uly eapableot. © It’s all the buzz. eset ‘conyou goto Genus Tet Ty Spang Boe {osc how many words Souean maka wit? eter Ply ow a rytmes.com/bee. Gscaninsan cocoCareer Builder ‘The dreams and carefully crafted legacy of the American futurist Buckminster Fuller, ‘By WITOLD RYBCZYNSK NAS LIVINGIN MONTREAL when thasted Expo 7, arguably the lst great worlds fale Asa recently inted rete aking ele work sts tthe st, as abet fol theeastvtinn othe US pion, ‘thveequarter sphere that was 250 feet Ih ‘hametor and fle ven nrger inside. This Sine no arcatecire inthe conventional eee ao wall or cen, ut ved transparent stn, was ovo on engi- Peering Teal et gave the pression of teepating Srecie i eeohabend foto bubble maybe. ‘The leosahedal structure, commonly kom ava geodesic dome, woud become IVENTOR OF HE FUTURE The Visionary Life of Buekminstor Flor ByAbe Novia ase 855 pe. Day Stet Books. $25. one of the mast enduring legacies ofthe ‘Amerean futurat R. knnster Pale, ‘though, as Ace Nevala-Le writes in is eveliny ne biography, “laventar othe Future” Fle “hd minimal np on ‘many othe strvtures ith which ho wa ‘ssoctted, Including the Montreal Expo Dome, whieh Was son a8 hk master- Flor and his wor, bt they hve toned to be writen By aeoytes iho took the Great Mana hs word. The problem, 3 Neval-Lee vars, s that “Furs wet Ings and talks overflowed with masinfor- ‘maton and out falsehoods, whieh he ‘methodealy bul into the realty distor thn el that allowed im to achieve so ttvchinasingl etme” Neval-Leeis ‘Scandalmonger, butter she an aco: Ty, having oon only 3 years old atthe time of Fuller death nok). Tenuta of a wolboceved group OWraphy, “A touting John Ve Campbel anc Asi tov, Robert A Henin, L, Ron Hibbard fn the Golden Age of Science Fiction? NNevalo-Lee examines Fuller's Head ‘workin comprehensivedeall Heseemsto have spoken to everyone ving who had a personal or profesional assoeaon Wi Faller; there are 129 pags of endnotes. “The author clearly adie ls subject, which makes some aspects of his spas ‘Sonate narrative al the more unting Fler fraught relationship with is we, Anne: the sera fairs often th ves Seung women: the exces dnnng the monumental ego that offen acted aginst ite own batter interests; protective i "int about siden hat versed on par ‘ol andalaye that cart erated re Sere a fra a ‘ Fraderich Law Olmsted and the forthoar Me rTh Sry Avatar” ality distortion eld” Fo someanelike this fader, who met and as influenced By Fully reading these revelaions sa chas- ening experience In his public appear ‘ances aller coud come neovs a8 sell. eto scer almost ase satin Neva: {Lees biography hes al to human "Who wns Richard Bickrinster Poller {c? He was born in 198 in Mtn, Ms, Sn alfivent saber of Boston to an esta lished New England fly, ¢grandnept fv ofthe Yeni writer and elitr Mar fare Flr Like his antecedent, youn {Ble atendet Harvard. Like Bil Gates and Mark Zuckerberg De dropped ou {hough he did wot eave volunarly ~ be ‘ter college dopo charisma. Yet it was precisely among at. stiets hat Fler acquired an ative fo lowing. He taught in arhtecture schools, fis ork was: published in architecture tagaines and he wos close to Charles Eames and Frank Loyd Weight It Was ‘Wilaht who sisy put Fler in hs pce "T fam-an nrehect interested in scence ‘Bucknstersasclenist interested a stitetr AND THEN CAME THE DOME. By the tte {Md Puller had earned is lesan and he Avoided investors and Tame Backers Ho tall his ist experimental geodese domes inexpensively with stadens, in {ally at Black ountsin College, po gressive school in North Carolina. They Busser Fale ate US. avon jor Expo ntrepreneus but be was no prodigy Jabs ow ony 56 years by 53 al that Fuller hh to show for is etfores was string ot business tales: abldlngsysten wise financial backorseased him ou ofthe com pany, a thee-wheele car prototype that tvertured and could ave ere ne Jured is witeand daughter anda prefab. ‘ited house that resembled a fying sacer {nd id no progres beyond the prUetyDS Sage Despite these mit inconsiderabo sa tek Falor never faltered His tncon- ‘ventonal imagination and energede opt tnism atracted admirers and supporters, ‘bebemian st heart, he become ends ‘ith the compouer John Cage and the ‘Slplor sam Noguchi and was lose 0 ‘Margaret Mead and Marshall MeLhan, Bueky Faller Was no architect, and he ‘kept pretending be was complained Pl ‘pbs ho as mie o Fuller were extremly stony for theese, and {hey maximized internal volume withthe ales amoont of materal The Ort pratial gendese aplication vas acaver. {ng for tho contral courtyard of the Ford Ronin in Dearborn, ch. The ih ‘weight aie stuetare was omen the Weight of a conventional steel rot, ‘whieh ullaing wasrtstong enough 0 Sspport Other domes inte radar ‘osures(radomes)intheAret;on Amer. fean extbition pailon in Moscow he Ste of the famous. NisoneKhroshchey “teen debate") an audtoiuin Ha ‘wi forthe industrialist Henry Kaiser {eamporay shelters fore Marine Corps: ‘Tank Car Company in Louisiane larg fat structure ever but without itera i 1839, the Museum of Modern Act mounted jn ts seupeure garden a Fuller show canting fa geodesie dame, an ce- tettruss(alightelht space ame) ands teasegrly ast (a sel-supporing tower ade of exbles and rods). The New York ‘Times. secitectore cre Ada. Lovise Hustle gave the work flsome praise, cling tho greatest dane ning ‘Shoe the invention ofthe arch The octet tras was invented by Alexander Gahan Bell bat ner mind nthe eon of the ‘word Fuller Wasa later day Edison, 2 onary inventor Which underines eur fous contradiction that Nevala-Lee Shrewaly pats out "While Fale ‘aimed to express hit ideas est inthe form of artacts, he vas more comfortable ‘sling is epataton on pape” “Alotof paper = NevaseLse sts more than to dozen books a Puls iogr se Dh ranging eros acometry, caro ‘IY. eestion, poetry and metaphysics Falls toory of ephomeralzation ante pated the dig age; his vented terms “yergy” and “Spaceship Earth” became part of the language: Seles who ds: ‘overeda carbon molec thot looked ike Speodese sere were aided by isle Sights (and) named buckmister- flerene)-Butitsalsohardtotakesomeot more coventi idea seriously, has "irdetversble housing” or the proposal tocover Midtown Mactan with a ge ‘ome. National Lampoon paroded his ap ‘parently limiessteenlogel optimist fn este led "Buckminster Fuller Repair Manel or he Entire Univers “Aprotessor at Southera ints Univer: sity whore Palle was sed for ore tha Adocade-obcervedtaathe's notateacher fej talks? hat was otinended asa ‘rites. Fuller's public Tete, wich ‘ould goon for ave or six hows, were ta mous always eXtemporancus, thee moderna Chavtanquss mere tating ‘Weave of pct and seener,dlivered it his own pul oeution.Stowaet Brand Tecares have ‘raga quality of rie, nonliner, endless improvisation Yul of convergent sr [poses Pulicatons. suchas Brands hole Earth Catalog promoted Faller: ‘eas and provided him, Well iato is 705, ‘with a new Keneration of follwers The “oumternureeventally fst ts est ‘am for the domes, which, acarding 10 Bran, aways leaked, Wasted space and ‘Were possible o subdivide and furnish, "When my generation outed! the domes Brand rote "we simp ft thom fempgy ike hatchlings leasing ther ‘ugsets lle himsel remains indispensable” NevalarLee conchae, "both as 2" ale model and 98 a catonary te” The Srength of ns caenlly receared and fairminded biography is that the reader ‘Somes ay ith 9 zreater mnderstancin ‘t's deeply complicated indieiual who ‘vereame obstaces ~ man of his on ‘alung ~ to achieve a Kind of imperfect, areas 2Swallowed Whole ‘The Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah sets a World War I love story in German East Africa, ‘5 INBOLO MELE 19 I tt OOK “The Wietehad of the Earth ho French pyehiateist and poi fal philosopher Frantz Fanon wrote that "the seller onl ends is ork freaking inthe native when thelster admits oad nd mteligibly the supremacy oftuewnite ‘man's valvos” Abdurazak Gurl per l0tn novel, “Aterives"—his rst to Be published in Amerie since his work Went out of print decades ago — proves this theory woe, creugh te interwoven Stores af three protagonists ln an un arenes By Abdtarak ura ‘nad coastal town in Geemnan East Africa inthe early 100s, period when vray All of the continent belonged to Euro eans, atleast onamap: British East IM fa, Deutch Osta, Africa Oriental Por- tguesa, Congo Belge” ‘Atte center ofthe novels Atv, anor. phan who is rescued from her abusive faelakers by her longdost bathe, yas, ‘wo has hase ended kidnapping by ‘German colonial oops before recaving fis educaton ina German mission school ‘Through Ilyas’ bes rend, & lian ‘merchant named Khalifa, Aya story i feracets wit that of Hamoa, actu eX felgir who serves in town stl seatro {fom hitmen the clonal rm Tn tis story asin history, he Gorman empiretsalivng.breathingorgansi wath desire to grow and reproduce and. it thrvatened, fight for it survival a all, forts. Gurnah depicts the whiteman'srac- [Smnpaily:"twasbocnintoamiltay dion anc hiss my dy German ot er mys to Hania “Thats why (am bere take possesion of what egy be longs tous. We ae dling wth back ward and savage people and the only way {ol them sto stk toro inc thems ‘To do their bidding, the Germans dis. pateh band of Area ests called the ‘sai otorture villagers and slur fat ehets wo dare to put up resistance, ‘Tho askar are so morose in pursuing, their weite masters ense that they “et tho land devastate, 8 poop saving and dying in the hundreds of thousands ‘Regardless of whether these young men Jotned the amy willy or By coercion, they fight forthe imperialists with “blind fd murderous embrace fs cause whose trzinsthey ald not know and whose amb tone were valnand ultimately Intended or thelr domination "arty in the story tho kind and sympa thet yas who has spet a yea aking are of is ile sister, teacher read oxo meh aor of Bed he Dreamers and" BeufulWe Were and wrteand showering her withatection feces to vinter inthe German et Tortagaint he rsh in Wor War The fender in ae distr and shocked ae Av, for who the ast year has fl ks fhe happiest te of here” Gurnah re veals the ensuing sequence of events Slowly and expert is tone abounaig ia mati and devel figment, even a> {he ramifieaton of ljas's choice growin ‘agnifode over the years and decades ‘Of course, yas i unaware of bh tho damage es causing andthe damage that his rine years In German eaptvity have ised to hs own fet nd mind. Like oan imperialist dd to Atican bods in ‘any’ Ways poles in comparison to what {hoy ad to African mind: When Tia do fends the Germans, calling them "hon forable and civilized people” who “have lane much good since they have been here another local says Buny, “My fend, they have eaten you” Stary, ‘ihen tyas announees to Khala that Ne willbe voluntering in the army, Kha [hes the response every sane Dlstcenr fury african Would ie: "Are you md? ‘What has this to do with you? © This between two violent and lous invaders, tno among ws and the othe to the north, ‘They aretighingoverwhoshould swale sole” “anorives” may bo an exploration tim peralism and War and the minor, untold toes that et lst fn the major oft peated anos, but tis equally a Tove story. ‘iter inding themselves akcninby Kha and his wile Asha, Alva and Hamza — to young people who have seen the ex: tent of hucian wickedness, Afi atthe the hands of Europeans choose to su Until last year, Gurnals oeuvre hhad gone out of print in the US. [Now American publishers are scrambling to meet the demand, nvr themsves to ech other so that {hey might bald something new andbest th outof the bole Gurnah beni renders their mo sments of delight despite the beta realty Around them. ining. ard tor Hamza, ‘Alva “fa small leap of elon every ‘ne he knocked onthe doy, and fl the innings ofa smile on ris, hich she Suppressed incase she seeted ager and ‘urried when she opened the door” Hut iiichasthe shadow ofthe German empire hangs over ths part of Aes, the shadow fot tly departure hangs over Aya and Hamza as they sec to crete the loving families they never had growing up. Aya ‘names thelr fintoen cd ys, de Sion hat ultimately leads ote revelation twhy ner breer never eame back home. Born in the Tanzanian afchipelago of Zanzibar, Gurnah moved to England dur Ingle Zazbar revluton a1 an ves {here toda Its evident from is novel thar he tll caries his homeland in he heart, -AMtenives" Is a celebration of 8 lacoand time when peopl hol ont the ‘own ways, and basked In ordinary Joys leven a5 ots ores conspired To take them aay Even intimes of wa, he shows, ‘ingle women tllhope or iealnesbands, Dusinessmen sek prot, spouses quarrel, ‘en gather for evening gossip, loved ones ‘Hequent one anars houses to cae for the sick, toast marriages, observe hol ays in he won the Nobel Prine in Litera ture last yea, urna ong oeuvre aa ‘gone ou of pri in the United Sates, and ow American pbishers are srambling {omeet the demand for is writing. He sa velit nonparl master arora Who undorsands human Tangs In con ‘lets both plea andtatimate and how {hese shortcomings create action rom. ‘which nations and inva contin 0 Sue, needlessly, generation after generaUnafraid to Feel Five stories of lonely women encountering ghosts, infidelities, betrayals — and human connection. By BRANDON TAYLOR {THE PIVE STORIES in Banana Yosheotos fallection “Dea-End Memeres” fst published in Japan in 2005, ts ber Uh hook tobe translated into English — are ‘range, melancholy and beat At the enter ofeach a Woman negotiating the ‘et allot of persona story Tn “House of Ghosts” a young woman sneounters, wel hosts of neers cou Stories By Banana Yosimote Taney a one 221 pp. Conta Pes. $25. le in the soonto-bedemoished apart tent other ne fver: The uhosts yo aout thatr mundane tees, seemingly unaware Uatuey are ghosts, They makedhe nara. tor “uneasy she says: “Ghosts probaly livedinghosttime —umethat owen ten strange a, somewhere completely emoved rom ourow. Coulda ming {eve usta te sap You of some a the ‘tat You moeded oie In this ortd?™ ‘baaoon aren the ctor stort Fly anima As the ving couple’ intimacy deepens, ‘he oe poignancy ofthe ghost becomes tentang withthe ant about hea ‘tinent destruction of the building. and ‘thi hi emporar relaenship. After {henarratrandher lover spl thet paths meander 8 they age na way’ makes {he reader smile. “This fe sevmed simple atts glance” Yoshimote write, "hen fnfat existe within lw ie wos far bigger as wast as te seve seas” In: Mamat” one of th mos bilan stories I've ever read Min, 9 pis {ng company employee is poisoned by 3 Aigranted costorker Running Beneath {he long, slow current of her physi r= avers Mims paral spietaltans- formation’ "Tos day's — that dea ‘ad exposed something inside of me snd ‘hana Jus ike pet bird ha had a "hlentllyentured ont ofitsenge, then ‘ont haeastme ou ofthe Worl tt Thad own "Tele story follows acredulous young sworn who dsrvers that her nee Bas bean cheating on he fr months. On her {ule ten finn route to setaiscovery Shetinds a companion in Nishiyama, ade ‘Strablebartender who works fr her uncle, [As thoy share cose quartors, te een. Ship rows into something ke loves st new that Under or separate skies, Nishiyama and T were bth so Toney i physically hurt shedhinks owardtheend tte Une Together "And un mals feyel say ance again the view from thoup Sais window, nd the let golden world ‘where ginkgo lever fll and sti fo ‘ever onthe ground "Two shorter entries move aay trom thissearmth i tenderness sito fan erie dagulet “Not Warn a AF takes the form of ree lection of ebllod fend ‘who as murdered and Tomorchons Hapoines follows ayoung woman uy Ingto ove ater dengraped A116 Though there night be Sipertical sires be- {ween the sores abot boy. ends, tall tensons, ore fie incidents in the narrators pists each one fel tinct, eis on pare wa ‘Yoshimoto’ leading women are lonely andblinkered, thought ne way that Inve come to expect om the prieky ad ‘logandyseverefietons of wrterslike Ra het Cush AQsegul Savas, lately, SThumpa Lanin, whose narrators tend to experience a fale o a lade af deste 10 Ingato into oct. Yestimot0 lonely ‘women awe more ln common wih the bachelor character of, Bernard Mal ‘ad or Leonard Michaels or Harsh Mo ‘aka. They ab resemble intel ave ‘Ward steking gene the characters of ‘lle. Mungo best stort stores about ‘oug womantoed,by turns comedie,sad Sind aching for eonneton. "The spy felons of Anglophone tera ture ofthe past decade taed on the ilesfpasivty ss agency within a ‘ent, dstopan, captalst Tliscape are cttng and ob Servant; but sametimes they Teave the reader wondering ‘When ran books be nr again? When can we have feelings ngain? Yosimotos protagonists go out and act, they fet they express event ‘only to themsaves. Even at prt of something. ‘whethera relationship ations hip, afamisa workpiae, 0 let. a word "These stories made me believe again that twas posible to tte honest ie ‘rou morally about inemateril eal characters; to wite toward bursa ‘armth as reafiration ofthe bonds that te us together Tas iss supremely pot book, one tat els importan be xtae it shows that happiness, wile not ways easy is subject worthy of She Is a Rock; She Is an Island In this novel, a solitary protagonist falls in love, then learns that three’ a crowd. by GREG MANIA |i-R00LDER”the second novel in a trip= {yeh that explores te ves of women in thet person the Spanish poet and Wate fr Eva Baltasar intradices ust a hor fuinsmaking cook Working on er ‘thant ship othe coast soathorn Chile. or By Bsa bates ‘nated ya Snctas 113pp. ond Oa Stee. Pos $17.95 Stillness comes to our rests: protagonist Sout as eony i does ough 3a ul ‘he comes 10 now and Tee Sams, 8 ‘woman who affectionately gives her the rlkname Bouler” ‘Notoneforstrctur, ankle break srashitever handed dal plan fr abandons sie ats ort sa ccna ite author of ome “Bare ne Pane partment in Reva whore the eouple ove iter Somsn aesepts 9 jo offer ‘While Samoa works 10 hours day, Bou derstrugelesto eclimate tothe routine of ‘lye that conte wither consoling hide Yetthelanguageat deste never stops vibra tng off the age; alana bh the mundane for gol, Sd offers those nuggets those morsels of intimacy Nn any that grip an Saes.Tey're enough te ‘make Bouker stay, eve if {hey rem her tom ae ‘ntetered But what happens when ‘earning Yor eedom — an Away precarious equi: ‘tm for Healer ~ clash? After almost ight yarst- ether, and nearing 40, Samsa decides {hatshe wants tohave nhl For ther 0 havea child To Boulter ths isone anchor, fino dropped, thal cannot be reenvered, bse aac tolose Sars,“ doe oe that what wants tobe a mother "As Soman prepares herbodyforbrth— ‘wtamins, hormones, injections, blood test, birthing classe, prenatal water ae ‘hier — Boulder witches her partner morph into oa stranger "There's nothing let of her for me, e's trosormed She teins to question her place In Samso's Me and fuels hee ante ith Breonivin at Toca pu. Samsa gives bird toa any fir Tinna, and Boulder finds nese on te outside, looking in ‘While motnernood comes naturally to Sasa Boulder is lef feting ke the cans Uealling a newivveds get. Seay ea: Tt has no Bear ing on me; Pv evn sent oxo extle” The emptiness Boulder tees Starts toconstine et andbefore long she Secs solace the company of another ‘woman a rela Wh comes fie food frock fo anc, ‘Their trystendsjustas Boukder starts 0 feel trapped by home he. At the same time, the physiel proximity to Tiana holaing her teeing er, dancing it her Inthermornings of theaneday wea lto ‘whlch Samet tiles to era all of her Teste — evokes a nevnes and stange: esta Boulder surrenders tothe tte macy Despite the displacement and ds: ‘Sonnet endured by adelghfully complex protayonist hose ansieindaced one mots oud surly lon Twit the ee. tgs at your heartstrings. Not a mother find ot one to mother Boulder ends Planting rots inthe space betwen the oun andthe verb. Motherood has hanged Boulder Just aot hers — and therealies the source of ths nove nage Baltasar, by way of Sanches” trans tin. confres version of motherhood That shies say romthe word. Instead an epproximaon, asking ws to ean aay fom learned Tangs, from the exact ‘An perhaps it shouldt ave @ name’ maybe some things — Ike Tove — are meant tobe hao deine, 2Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ‘This novel ollows an Italian immigrant at a movie studio recruited to make propaganda during World War IL ‘by MATTHEW sPECKTOR be narrow, and rarely more so than in Ho Iywood, where people sometimes style tones orcace stat art sto ben with ‘Thisnodonhorersbehing Athony lar ra elegant new nove, MereuryDicures Present in which Artie Feldman, hen Brohly eadaring waar io uns ‘Movie factory that fouls inthe sip- ‘ream of Halyvoo's mrs during the Golden Age 18 and"40s — kee fs ‘WERCURY PICTURES PRESENTS: ByAnthony War ‘055 Hogar $2890, toupee collection displayed in his ace nds never met bad idea edi ove, ‘We've met Fema ¥pebelore,injust out every comically eockeyed portrayal tfshow business ever And Marra, whose ‘See, dating sentences are sharp enough that wo dot mindsets us up wih «fe limps of the famaar: Is summer it find Ari studios rob a ods th the notoriously punetlious administrator tthe Motion Pure Assocation’ Pro. faction Coe, Joseph Breen, and wth the US" Government which suspects that Mercy ike th oer sto, s making ‘movies to good th natlontovard war But [ist when we thnk We know the story {rom under us. Itturns out the real protag- ‘nist ist so much Aries its Maia Lag fana, the sted ypist_who has risen ugh the ranks to beenme Arte de eto ght hand, ands eal toate seta Soundstage in Gower Gulch, But rather San Lorenzo, aly, where Mari’ fahor, Giuseppe, serving out time in confi, the intel exe assigned to these Wo have rn fol of Mussolini's government ‘luseppe isa gentle felow, former at- tomney and movie ul: Mariahas men. "esofhim spiriungher effo watch Amer ‘ait monster eke on Sundays when they fugit tonavebeeninchart) whose crime ISthe weting of unargued appeats, cata log ot Fascist eres intended ony for fis ‘scar. While Maria, who as apedto America with her mother nd i ished Ne adolosenee in Lincoln Heh foes. to. work for, Mercury. Pictures, {GluseppelsletbehindintheUnelesstine of eona, wring eters to his daughter hace, fours, hacked to plecos By the fensors rendered eryple i ways hat ‘make them practeally ego. Father and laughter are ths alone each never uly Ieosing te the’ fate Marrs sublime dexterity brings these tarps sesame othr mont re ent of hay ashing the Same Car (mare Cris an Los Antes” ‘words ito natara-seeming signment, but also sets op atonal depth no never tly resolves: Tepe ising, od, of Esa Morante’ oat, rin, hon ‘eof ie nde Iaian Foes, itor: ‘A.Novet” but also of Garcia Marquers “One Hundred Yeats of Sate with which "Mercury Petes Presents" ‘Shares its le, often fon narrative om ‘lsclence, am effervescent mood that T= ‘hains even is blelest moments sd ‘ettings "The again, this adeterminacy may be te. point That Mares novel doesnt square ino being itera portrait of Fas fran propping up studio during what ‘ight emain even now Hellywoods most muluous decade ever, bat rather ro mains something ofboth, sts ulumate Strong ts way of acerng sel, wi fut ever ceding to declare sel, the ‘eof are Poor Arte Feldman, with his rickety ees and his nforunatehaepeces. 2 Strange avatar for hat assedn, but bes forward. arte’ decison to make “Devils ‘argein” that Joseph Breen orending ‘tory of German fmmaser ho ogres to make propaganda moves in exchange for finaneing is masterpees, Dons as ‘nother on of Mercury's idling movies tbuendey after thefnlkeraliy toast: ‘eptionon Dec, with re soddeny looking prescient, Tse solauonse sens tors who thought studios were goading ‘he ation toward war? Now they ant [Aes hep malang more patriot” ple {es hike "Devis Bargin The interpre ‘ato of ar ituras ona dine ‘So does Marrs writing. the ging manner ofwhiehcanthelpevokingthings ‘Out of reach for alow-budgot maestro ike Artie: Fred Astaire dancing and the ie [Nrustctoutroeboat deeayngon anki presented a a ual nde eal ng tnd nursery for docius saplings” A ‘ect described “the element Snseapable art he onl artform that our ves uno within” Its impossible to 30 Justice t Marrs smoot, sweeping ste {nbits —viwedinoaton sich deserip- ‘ons could easly seem overwrought and lumsy ~ but kai together these paces have seiking command’ and. authori. ‘This ia gorgeous book, butts gorgeous ‘ness, to might be merely alse Wont for ‘whats ely on its ind. ‘nds hrs the stuiessrecring room siting through a copy of “Trump ofthe ‘las she alps to oversee the studios esr rartme efforts A se watches Len ‘lefensta's infamous pice of Nazi prop. ganda "infamous precisely beease of As artfuncss — she cat holp wondering What "were Hollywood's valentines ‘against this opus of domination? How oul a tlm ndestryhistonaly pro fdrom propaganda compete win am Industry created to single-minded pur sue he gol?" for Maria, ultimately, is cldnoss, ts uty to construct spectacle “without be inthe ites curity in mane Ings" What animates Mareas nova, con ‘erst she epost: an almost bound less inqustvenees sit probe the iver of ‘nexpanive cast, notust Ariss and Mae "ats and Giuseppe’, but abo those of & Shakespearean actor named Eadie Ln, ‘seen eued to paying racist ear atures not ast hat ofa photouraphor ‘named: Vincent Cortese, whose han ‘ots enn ith Marka and whose Fal ‘ame, indeed, may be something else Even Ned Feldman, Aries twin brother ‘who bates him for sto control snd ‘who's the closest thing tis novel has toa Yili (isthe classi Hollywood conse fn the other the bet counter ot of New ‘York, is rendered with a warm, itsmeety eta come interest UL he nature of arto course changes ovorime, and so does the nature of prope gana “Mercury Petres. Presents" Shot through with aries wath studio sts that lok ke aly, suburban camoulage alte on he rots of Douglas Alafia Santa Monica, even gargantuan Becin ‘hat fe reconstrcted forthe parpore of ‘propagandist realism in Utah This ae ‘ices more than usta comment on Hal ‘Wood, oan propaganda seem, abet, 2 remark upon the nature of reality ist AN, or propaganda Is never merely one ‘hing of the other: Each might borrow Sunint the suasions ofthe ater oF mit haveto mudcensetfjestatitlebitinorder {exist a all Ars compromises and con tradievons, Marra suggest, are precisely those of human nature, The success of Mercury. Pctres. Presents” Doth. the novel andthe Hollywood en it depicts {3 evanescent and ambiguots, enduring fn clear all once, Whsthet Arti, the Shownas, and Maria: the books torical |s'one question, but the ldeas posed by Marr's novel assuredly do, an they es ‘nate all he more strongly through our ‘um contemporary, ditessngly fascist. Adjacent, moment® Group Text / ‘Complicit; by Win M Li / By Elisabeth Egan Anew novel explores the collateral damage of assault on both victims and witnesses. Weloome to Group Tx monty eatin for readers "on a vel n another word forte Bt ona. WHEN st READ about Harvey Weinston's asaultson Soung actors in lxury hss, T could help wondering ‘Who pe his calendar? Whe oked the site? Who es: Corted the women tote dor snd ten made themelves Scares, perhaps knowing — or suspecting — what would happen when they let? Th Wine AL'S harrowing cree, ComPuer (imty ‘ete Boks 48,9 $271 panful reminders that takes vilage to propupa person whe abises power Fait ‘warlng: Li does sugareaat er subject. nor shuld she ‘When we met Sra Lal the 38-year-old former Holy \woodinsiderisaim teacher at Brokiy Community Co [ego 1052017; tho #MoToo movement is gathering sean; find everymorningon the subway to workshe reads about the atest stsio head or sreen ison to get his comedy: prance. Trecounize names from my ear Me ho tall Us "Somethings we cannot bury ao mater how much we ‘scare tom witht bags and PR statements and smal Ing phowographs” Sarah caves an interview request rom a New York ‘Times writer who wants to ako her bout hr expe ences with Hugo North, a Bish fim producer whom she ‘ossed paths with While work at Conquest Fs inher he From a series of converstions wh this reporte, iearn hat wast stake for Sarah wholanded thiseoveted Job withow ny connections (ee parents un 8 "scrappy lied sumeutitin Queen") AS sheets her ocungon the rickety, malesominaod ladder she's desperate to ‘limb, we se now al but a powertl few are having thei fingers stepped on: Sylva tne founder of them produc thon company and overstttched mother sha hired er; OMPLICIT eae ‘actos, whose headshots are serutined (not hot ‘nua and cast asid “the way a bored magilan might. ‘eal trough a deck of eras plus publi, managers ‘abd agents al Weated ke a noeossary ei ‘While working on her fist big mow Sara becomes ‘esenaly with Holly Randolph an inate on the csp of rmogawat stardom (I pletured her as Jia Roberts eirea “Mystic Pizza). Tho two of thom ae pled into Hugo har paring orbit, where women are may decorative objets, no matter ho talented hey are I wish Ipeeded9 provide spoiler sort but {ont think Sarah wont [etthecreat she dasersestorpunehingupaseript writen byamalecollague Holly uajetory seven marctrag, ad Sarah wl be haunted by the part se played ‘A woman looks back ona ‘ro shining stint into ‘movie industry and reckons ‘oth regretae decisions “he made in the name of ‘Like te best lakers, Li rams you tothe ede of there. She also makes you think abot how fr yout 0 to protet your oxn job. ‘compli occasionally it drags when she zooms ou othe presen ‘Sspecally when i comes to he be-loeded reporter, fet te best when Li focuses on the pat ‘Thom Gallagher However loved Lscinematc aides — ominous drumrll” and“ his were a fy single card ttle would now come up onscreen: Four Years Later Sind er wel ime fora inte Saray He. The Laks ‘are bled by thoi daughter's career path her sensible "Slings have chosen acounting and dentistry. Theresa realise disconnet between the wenerations but ao brusque tendemess that outshines the Uisel of Sarahis new if. [sno wonder tat Sarah becomes a regula at 3 family-owned Chinese restaurant ina strip mal while hor {ets flmingin Las Angeles The warrth and amlary ofthe place balance out the pin inter parser ie — Sn inthis ook Tain he covert abr “Comp gt oer Faebook ‘ase rots, ur etagram @NY Bons. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ‘What would you nave doneaierenty i you were in Sarah's shoes? ‘Khowing what a ited storyteller se was, wore You boping she. end up writing he own account instead of sharing her experiences ‘witha reporter? ‘rom the New Yor City subway othe hal of highschool, Ifyou sce something, sy something” hes become a uigutous minder tocrust your gat Inthe cote of “Compiit” wy itso meh ‘ss ald hin done? ‘SUGGESTED READING ESD, Jt Katranaghan Tobey wan erash cours in shoo [eather journalism andthe boc torn the reporting tat helped spark the # MeToomovement, tis book, tw investigative reporters for The Now York Timos, a groat place a start Bonus: The move starring Carey Milligan and Zoe Kazan coming ot i November care ANO NLL, Wy Ronan Faro Five ays ater Kantor and Twobey pu lished ther first article abot Welntens story of paying off wren who accused hi of sexual harasstent, Farrow’ pote covering sae {ory appeared in The New Yorker in his book he recalls the lengths he ‘went ton oder ttl the star. It was meant to befor NBC, Which em ‘layed Farrow a the ime, Our crite Jennifer Sel wrote, NBC ofa “bse the nsutional levers at their asposa to ht dawns Work on ‘elnstein~ rom interment dscouragement to daborate stonewalling ‘oa egal reviw that tuned out toe both abyrintine aed absurd” "sane cea a trate Book Review onde thr of°A Window pensTranslocation as Transformation collection of stories haunted by the hungers and precarities of emigration and queer love. ay Aeees cnr “asm eminent and ‘Within these stris, obsessed withthe WHERE NOVELS ARE often described as vagaries of emigration and adolescence fambitous, and omnivorous, Short stares and populated DY ghosts and sprit, the ‘feral presumed iohaveappeties-—to tf egnented structures fein Arer- fn rampant through the reader's mind, ica dissolve into a slipstream of floc Favenous devouring, fera-Themmost com: myth. In "Nowa two sisters think tho sumupthe par. fight train that passes through the Tago cach nights Bleeding unt they real 12 the lod i that o oars who've been swallowed up by theta, cocooned tongues behindher, wating tol her onto ther back Chang puss language into range ring reversals eoaigits given ‘meanings! A character named AI (et ‘ead mother spetedAlwrongonier birt ‘erleate) “rewired words and tongues ‘Stauber allover belore eating tan act Sho calls “sabering” rar tan “savor ing” ading layers of meaning hough creative misreading “AL umes, thetic iosyneratc na rue of these transformations can fel Inside sea earapacos, In "Dykes which Somewhat repetitive, but the insistent fohows two Chinese gs working at a (ualy of Changs aesthate 1a powerful ‘rial sushi restaurant In drought: eo estureinandof ite Ifdominant clare ticular work shor story ean do are post. stricken Las Vegas, the streets lod and Sraws ts power mpartrom continual rep- ars and photo sus, febergs and the neighborhood raccoons evolveintoag- Butiheseplotsarenotsomich thecal etton and reassrton, the Mui lie of farefuly etched cameos: sil patent ob- les otertike creatures hat swim the Sip poinofChany'sstoresasthetrame'wihin these stories demands the same unylels- Jectsputuog themselves on calm asplay In Schools Elsewhere, an aunt who accl- ‘Whichshe rewrites he world ws aplace of ing presence. 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Strangely Familiar ‘These stories play with notions of convention, comfort and surprise. In-Mes. Covet afrgileyoungmatber's They also tar otto cause severe and it- makes cle that Miler — filmmaker nd domineering mothersnia imposes un. revocable ith defees. Mostly, taugh, novels as Wel a8 he author fan eater ‘waned lp onto forenuhortoconfnt tists story about fal bow our nd. Sory colton, “Porsoal Veo" — ‘THE STORIES in Rebecca Miler’s new col. the langvor and confusion of being std- vidual desire tobe seen as acaretakercan knows exact what she Is ing. 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You've oe —_________Senphnes nose at to please were tectvely win te larger naratves.. never ite seen them nated by these ‘ustorn ations isthe author moxtre So power hat users compared then 19 And wile one can tn to wonder versions hose characters, nor ae = ent of Wont Her next novel “Fgh wil "hang injected ith heroin, oF paps wheter allots familar iquteon pu Or ofthese sentences, wih these defy de. Pepublated a Nove, hata Bay feols whon breastbedink” pos, the Mal story, “Tho Chekhovians> ployed ayers of surpive.2The Most Dangerous Game A famed zoologist returns to his first love, art, in a colorful portrait ofthe British avant-garde. ‘Morris ow long career as a painter snd Each profile begins wit alsting ofthe Indeed is Me asa proud doctnaire arists dates, places of residence and Young Surrealist, who Joined the move “pariners" whieh give a sense of ust how DESMOND MORRIS, now a sprightly 94, is inn in London inthe 1040s and then, lrgewere such iveseachatany of exo Properly famous Britains zoplogst,Srmedvith Andre Breton'sphone numb Ieeatons matched by profusion of futhor ef over 40 books and a ubigufous went io Parista eek out surviving Sarre: overs and spouses, Surreists always television presence on al matters animal. ast. Moris had a twoperson exibition have thelr of strong ancodtal ener. ‘Aeading’aeademie ethnologist, Morris with Joan Micoin1950,crected Surrealist and these Anglo-Saxon iterations do et became a householé name through his Shor ms and collected art by many of disappoint. trom the. shockingly rich faegantoan 190 best seller "The Naked his most radeal contemporaries, These (here ave a surprising umber af chat fre surprisingly avant-zand credentials furs mentioned, aswell ar Roll Royes ‘ByADRIAN DANNATE THE DRTIGNSURREALIBTS for an eminonce, rather like disevering Phantom tthe desperatly poor alk By Dosmond Mes thatDavidAttentorough wasamember ting barefoot while trviing on rabbits IRateies iipy Thares@ttien, $385, the Stuallost International ad iee pudding. in 2H Mors published "me Lives ot We learn of Peggy Guggenheim in a tweSurrealtesandthisfolow-upvolume race wih er sister to sleep with 1000 Ltonra Carrington And Then We Sav Ave: AZooiogt's Study ofthe Human n- gathers Waris jus oo eeherct or too men, Raw Rand Penrose encnganizeot Ne Dag Miser 18. imal which soi some 20 milion opis Bris wo be iced Inthe erie come. tho seminal S06 London Surreaismshow, ON eeMD# fd was translated into 23 langueges. pendium. As Morris ada “Ie is ot an “ean do it witout handcuffs” There are ‘Morris so propounded the apes creative nasi of their Work Streets dis giinds 80 years unser, husbands 25 Abies and organized a succes ex Ike having their werk analyzed — but Years younger sataepaies, mescaline Morris himself was costed by Bacon bition oth patina Certainly his star rathorasriesorper-porras” Andimost Was and counts Chresomes, Wo read on whether a baboon he'd painted Was Chimpanzee, "Congo proved this was enjoyable these prove cach peasy ofthe lind, suicidal manager ofa Hong ate: Moore wanted to discuss animals tnore tan ¢ pubis stunt, Pleasso sup todest at only afew pages long. apy, Kong bask, alady ast with an atflal vith hin, and Jon Banting asked hn to Doely owned one of his explosive ab- brewzyread accompanied scious fuk: exam -Giber aman whosokdwind- the Natural History Museum to dscuns Ftracton= whose excellence sl serves cabr reproductions. Some are famous ~ mls Argentina, a baronet turned “in. omerphs. Unhapol for me the mee. Sraconvindngretitatonotanthiopecen: Francis: Bacon, Henry Moore, Graham spector of Muletecrs” and Leonora Ca ing never tok place’) Every reader ll tom. Sutherland—andmanyotersdeicausly ington, whose old nanny was sentby sub. surely likese regret not having me any ‘Mainstream celebrity rather ecipaed baci, for example Oscar Melo, Sart marine to escort her from her Spenish ofthese dang characters ndony Wish cr — Halloor John seiby Buse. Buallheroare mental opal oon Sau Area, and to somehow wae achance to meet hie oman oueurr isthe ator of Doored and perteeily captured, dissected, anaaed who covered ber fee in mtard and Iestand very fo fomteat Othe Oeil Famous Sn made viva. Shower ally eones Brn Sureatss 0 Sin of Man Amemoir about male misbehavior and the struggle for redemption. Sy MICHAEL AN BLACK seribes an early sexual encounter to an whenever he is back in San Francisco, very alert priest, who Tse ator ss ‘ven now, a a sceasful editor and ab ects was masturbating whe istening thor years after working there. He writes FORGIVE US MEN, for we have sinned "“Fitgeraldis te autor ofthe children’s About the bar wha alfeton that su Some of us more than others few of sas book "How to Be a Prt” which tracks passes any he has for his former lovers, Drodiiously and joyfully as case Flag” wih his brazen tale Ofcourse, hee no ‘ost of whom go nameless the book. id whose new memolg“Dirtag, Massa Shertagectsiniar enn American era: Taft aside ram is mother and para ‘huscts” chronicles hisupbringiigasthe ture. agora neces comfortably on @ producer and actress named. 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The fights nearly all come thepatigrecaf private sche education, _‘Tsaae Figeat ‘ih fergvenes.erabout the ways men ivi studentsshistorbulent and violent Sere was scooped up from Town wh Sruggle to make sense of themselves and hildhood; his years of drugeing, day the highest tenage pregnancy rate per {he romance men te often nin he bot inking scrapping, bartending and set captain the sate of Massochises” and, commiting low-level health insu omof abot of whisker Youre ooking Ing in por: along with a ideine of mis. given a fee nde to Cushing Academy. ance tat in. New Hampenite before fora book abot what's wrong and right Sonary work into Southeast Asian war plcebuth soft and hard,crueLand kind. It windinguptendingbarinSanFranelscoat wilt American mea, you could do 2 et ones. He decries is book asa eonfes. Wak everything and was alocof "tis the Books Valea, a former biker bar Worse than“Dirtag’ Massachusetts.” Sonal although the only aetal scene of there thal Fitageralé replaces the cheaper called Zeitgeist whose original owner “got Theres moh sin in Fitzgerald's cones: anfession we getiswhen Young Isaaede- dragshedbeen doing at home wiehphar- shot up near Guerneville” “I loved bars sional although none of moral Instead, riceutcal sped” prescribed by doctors, fromthe moment fst drankinoneat 4° itis ah endearing and tattered catalog of ‘owe unDischisacomedianacorand crushed with a schol ID and afecion. Fitgerald writes. Bu iis at Zeigeist one man’s transgressions andthe ways for Hille book Beer Manel eked "Dit Coke where he finds is poople, Kerowacs "mad which iis oar sins, far more tha our (sty Serius) Leer o My So” ‘ster schoo, he Moats around the coun- qn” And it 1st Zitat he Teturns — virtues, hat make us Who Wea.Essay / Read Your Way Through Lisbon / By Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida A Portuguese novelist recommends books to help readers get to know Portugal's vibrant capital. Lisnow HAS LONG been marked by a certain wistulness. Perched the westernmost edge of Europe ithas Den lace departures a¢ much as of arrivals esbblestone Streets perpetually echoing with the voices of thse who havo pasou through. That tho ety capured in ISON, (Sonne rise €augoRe. 2 symphonic grape poom Mes Pbsbedin 838 by Victor Pala and Costs Marin hose brainy Back-andwniteimayes caught to essence ofa Place longing fr ehane. ‘ht for those who come with that vision the cy today wi surprise with ite diversiy and olor Wo fein Li ton may stl be threaded with melancholy ~ exorbitant ents inthe city enter have fore many strc bool Sores and eontonnal shops to eos, and many Tonge Fesidents to move lather aay stews are eh WI trary tration and vibrant withthe contriations of new sia ‘You can sol in the city's downtown and visit cafes, such as Martinho x Areada, augurated in TTS2 a8 A Brasileira, which opencd in 108 and where some of he country's most renowned writers, ineuding Fernando essa once met Or you can ake the all ie at Tern do Rosle o Sintra, which was a source of inspiration fr Sosé Maia de Eade Queirez,one of Portugal great 8th- ‘century novels Butityou getoffatthe Amadorastation fand enter the Bablnia shopping center, you wil find a Tvoly mal hatservesasameeting point or the numerous ‘nigra commie that make the cy what ia today ‘What should I read before I pack my bags? Some of the e's melanchole atmosphere e present in essoilsYHE BOOK OF GUE. It's writen inthe vie of IRemardo Soares ane of he alterate sives of Peso, ‘who wroteunder dovensofKentites he relerredto ashe ‘ony The iterary criti George Steiner wrote tha the book ives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's DAB oF Kafka Prague In Jout Sarsnago’s TWE YEAR OF THE DEATH OF meAKDO fo, you wil ind Ricard ets, ancther of Pessoa fe: ‘onal authors backn Lisbon nate December 18, Hele thereto ist sso, hs ereator at the cemetery — Pessoa had edi ate November ~ a atime When Portal Under fact ue In83b,1 was I years ol, but Lremember the sadness ot he city” Saramago once ss about what inspired ths hovel.“ Porhaps today's readrs wil indsome arma festatons of tdness and loneliness nthe cy td” ‘Many of the greatest works of Portuese iterate — and mach orto most oxcting writing happening today — stent yet avalabe in English translations ‘But you wil find good translations ef the poetry of Cesirio Vordo, Alexandre OTN, Mario Cosarny, RUY Belo and Sophia de Melo Breyner Andresen online at Po ‘try Inernatinal and Poems From te Portes ann Tino platform run by Contro Nacional de Clr local fatal nstiution in sore of tele poe, ou vl ind the streets you will walk‘, from Cals das Colunas to [Avenida da Lterdado. THE COMMON, erry magazine avalable online, re. “Argol. Shes theta, ot reer of “Tat Ha which, trond y Ene MB. Beker nn Best Transat of he Year at Word iterate Tay: among other les. cently tferedin the 20th sve a spacial portfolio ofr ing trom Portuyal and its colonial an linguistic diaspora, ‘with Works English ad in ransltlon exploring Lisbon, “Angola, Braz. Cape Verdeand Mozamsique rm writers Sch as Ru Cardoso Martins, Matilde Campi, Jonas ‘Arena and Told Gero, Stsana Moreira Marquess mastorpioce NOWAND AT THE ‘oun oF ouR DEATH, 2 work of reporiage aboot le and ‘eat setina village in nrthera Portugal sanexampeot the best contemporary Portuguese writing avalabe in translation. As for por, CAPE VERDEAN BLUES, Dy Sha Barbosa wl give You a sens of the mulated charac ter of Cape Versa ce inthe dspora, HAPS MA ‘at, the rent na Lea Amara, wil nce yoo Took ith Wonder nto the minutiae of everyaay Me ‘What books can give me a sense ‘of life under the dictatorship of Anténio de Oliveira Salazar? ‘The regi insted by Salazar in 193 lasted unt 1974 {WE THREE MAAS: New Portage Utter Mata sabe Barreno, Marta Velho da Costa ind Maria Teresa Horta s ‘an audacious and whinslel collective work agana a= ‘iam Considered “porographic and athreat to peblie mo- ray” when it was published ted the eovernment to put {te authors ot trial, emery wanoeoBes 2 el by Mara Judie de Carvalho wil give you a sense of domestic ile under the itatorship: In precise, unsentimental pose tell the story of ue generations of women overs ‘wed by the death ofa patriarch. ‘What books can give me a sense of the city’ colonial past? ‘The Portuguese empire, which included colonies in the Americas Asinand Africa was also one ofthe most endir= ngs tegacy i vid Lsbon toda “Townesit youcan goto Cova da Moura thohome ofa Jarge community of migrants rom counties inelding ‘Cape Verde, Angola and Guines-Bssa, among hers, ‘and payaisitto Dent Zona, abookstore and sll-sreen Printing workshop where you vil find a carefully curated Selection of books aout i city’s onl past and works bbymajp authors of Areas descent. I youre iterestod in reading more on this subject, tore are many books and authors to choos from. sou oF nownene cof Anno Labo Antunes masterpees, [Sa tonse monologue tld by an Angolan war veteran oa solitary woman be meetsinabar A prose poom addressed {oa sllent interlocutor anda memet ofthe herors af the ‘war as winessod by the author himself. tsa super Book ‘ith whic to str ‘Dulce Mara Cardoso’ Tw mETURW starts in Ago a 109. The Salazar dctatrshiphes collapsed andthe defeat ofthe Porte inthe Angolan WarofIndopendence Insight The nareator Ruy 15 Years ol. He ane a the thogsands of ster: ho are returning to Portugal, & place where he has never been, The navel wl ie you Sens ofthe contradictions and mythologies at play 3 the time of the Carnation Revolution, wie Ted tothe end oF te detatorship in 17 Francisco Bethenconrt's ambitious and intersisci- at RAEI: rm the Gana othe Petit Cota 9 treat solriy work to start with youre Interested Ia fearing mare about te roots of racism in Portugal. The ‘Angolan weiter and musi Kala! Epalangs —~ whose hovel wares caw pance Too forthcoming fom Faber Ia 225, i excerpted ina online issue of Baka, a iterary ‘magizine bated in Cameroon — i great example of 8 few generaton of writers of Afican descent. The untold perspectiesof the African disporaremain largely under- Foprosentodin Portuyuoseiteraturo. Tir concerns and ssptations sre hardly ever given the depth of stperson ‘arrtives Epalanga'smisieal beat irt-person ale of young Blackman soarehing orhimsotin todays Europe faves hope or heute. c ijaimilia Pereira de Almeidals Lisbon ‘Reading List Liston claDe mate alton, Victor Pala fand Costa Martins “We Book OF BASQUE, Fernando Pessoa owt Saramag ootry by Csiro Vordo, Alexandre O'Neil, Mario Cesariny, uy Blo and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen ‘Stsona Morel Marques ape venocan ats, Sati Barbosa ‘wnars Wa wane, Ana Ls Amira sr mes aman hw Porton eters, ‘Maria Isabel Bareno, Maria Veo da Costa and ‘Maria Toros Hort ‘pry wanoeoaes, Mara Judie de Carvalho 'SOUTWOF NOWNERE, Anni Labo Antunes THE RETURN, Dilco Maria Crow cit Fam th re tothe Tenth ante, rancsce Bethencourt wes ean oan 00, lat Epalanga oO& Children’s Books / Graphic Novels Rock On ‘The sequel to Louis Undercover’ turns the music up a notch. ‘by VERA BROScOL -ASIMUSIC sometimes Youust combina fon of ats working togethers seam leslie a single eestor Fan Bat and Isabelle Arsenault previous eallabo- ‘tedon-lane the Foxand Me aplaative Story ot alone gi staging toi eon ‘ctlon, which on both the. Governor Generas Avard and & New York Times Best Hlustated Childrens Books Award, ‘hele nes" graphic novel, “Forever Tal. fies a joy oe tolve, and warrants took back at 20178 "Louis Undereaven {heir ear, Jess joy book’ about the same fam Tite fist book, Lous and bs Bethe mopped musie-obsessed younger othe, {Tle shuttle between thee former fm yom in th countey and thee mers i ay spartnent Thee dad sng {ven ly, Win eled optimism Srunkenly crying for thelr past. when “hom made shorread eooklessneling a butter and peace of mind” Moms pan Forever TRUFFLE Thee Stree By Fanny rit smstrate by isaboo fesenout Tanstedy Sis Ours 114pp.Geundrone 19.98 gee 30), {Louis uNoERCOVER By Fanny Britt IMstrate by enaleArsenautt oo. Geundro. $19.98 (doe 1010 1) tna ture Yo fear — she chases be lds sath wet wipes and lies awake a night Srorying. The effervesceat TeufleIs otorspies,butevenhs maining fldtove song’ Lous takes alin, asp his oun hoe, or maybe a bit of host Incontst othe bleaknessis the bright yellow sunshine low of Ble the sito SS oves: Shes everything alive and wow ‘eral nthe work alto a choco: tate fountain, sient queen” But Lous [it spies on er too, wating he fom ar thhisbest rend Bors oo tered to spent Becnine if theres one thing ie has taught hms that ove ends Bad "There are moments of hope Dad so- em cscs rape mvt a Cale {oe Honoring era stator oemereentptarhok *Memoy Sor” ‘ros publi yor bors up the boys rescue a wound baby ‘can, An aetent senda Tai tothe spt adie sudden soem short snd precios leading tek parentsto recall ind tako them ona tp to New York City together rey the tfomiysreuned, Bat seoholismsinsiiousess aunts them no mater where they go. Da relapses, and thang fall pare. Kids observe ther parents to discover how the word works: The svi de ends on those who are ber andsareng than they are thelessons they er lasta Metime. Louis watehes a is dad tees tobe rave and trong ony falter Abas, jrm “Forever Trae Below fram “Louis Undercover snd mis: {st are confirmed wth more betrayal. In 2 elulag mment, when his dad sap ears into a detox center Louis thins." ight have toe Ike fiw an di all ind of Win forge Bt sorictinen Hs learn aurpriing things Like that offering someone So Fnsart is raver than any physical at that {homoreYoukino of osthostronger You Ihave te to ait. 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Teather Jacket tor his birthday he resoves tofornaband Herecrutshistest frends, comes up with name (the Man-Eating Pints) ad dreams of sko4t Montes) ‘concert Never ming that they ca pay ‘any Instruments chats naraly the point ‘The ids escape into the sort of colorful fantasy only a ler bet can conjure re Loves iat ds ou ero ane es. Tres dd tails hi ot i ear Go the talking. which makes him thor- faughl confused” about nator Louis {aos been here elore) tls him t just. ‘pen ls mouth goes prety well. Oder brothers are the best. Th "rule Tackles Existence? he at tends is great grandmottrs tuner He frapples withthe concept of impersa- hence, aging and death (alt for ane ater- ‘noon kinks of the nia nd ‘dans ic lovedandlot. Butintre True fashion — alter some silt redirection by Monte comes tothe enchision that thwever lite time we haw theresaways ‘the poo ofa perfect dae Tels pure delight spending tne with ‘Tre Arsenauls whimsical at rn ports diet Into sialon. 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