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| Linklog: the age of margarine, clearing shelves, and more Literary criticism in the 21st century: "Before we knew it, the Age of Margarine was upon us – not golden, but bright yellow, and full of suspicious adulterants."• Positive results of a book clearout, plus additional bookshelf porn.• Positive reader reviews for sale in bulk.• I'd be more interested in the original scroll version of On the Road if it looked like this.• The beneficial effects of hiring an agent: "The book, formerly titled Every Day I Know Less and Less: Postcards From the New Times Square, has been sold to Denise Oswald of Soft Skull as Last of the Live Nude Girls."Peter Robinsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds feeds.guardian.co.uk |
My True Story A history of memoir, from St. Augustine to James Frey. feeds.nytimes.com |
Disgrace | Film review This decent, extremely faithful adaptation of Nobel laureate JM Coetzee's 1999 Booker-winning novel is the work of an Australian team led by director Steve Jacobs and screenwriter Anna Maria Monticelli. John Malkovich stars as the arrogant 52-year-old David Lurie, a lecturer in English literature at a Cape Town university, who loses his job after refusing to apologise sufficiently for an affair with a coloured student and then joins his lesbian daughter at a remote farm where she is raped by three young marauding black men. The contrasted ways father and daughter react to this terrible act define their responses to a radical social change.Disgrace is both a compelling human fable and a complex, ambiguous allegory of post-apartheid South Africa, raising issues about white guilt, black vengeance, the shift in political power and the problems occasioned by the country's deeply divided past and problematically shared future. Malkovich invariably plays men apart and is here well cast as a fastidious intellectual, a Byronic authority on Byron, standing aloof equally from the unjust society in which he was raised and the new one in which he uncomfortably finds himself. His oddly strangulated accent contributes to a sense of alienation, though one doubts if this was the intention. This chilly film gets surprisingly close to the tone of Coetzee's precise prose.DramaJM CoetzeePhilip Frenchguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds feeds.guardian.co.uk |
Troublemaker Self-invention is a major thread in this biography of the witty, passionate liberal columnist, who died in 2007. feeds.nytimes.com |
New Voices: Beth Hoffman The book: Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, $25.95, 306 pp.) rssfeeds.usatoday.com |