By JULIE SCELFO IT was on the island of Saipan, in a remote part of the Pacific Rim, that John Bowe, then a 42-year-old writer researching a book on modern-day slavery, fell madly in love for the first time in his adult life. IN WAITING Stymied by the difficulty of making a relationship work, John [...]
Read the rest of this story »By WELLS TOWER The title story of T. Coraghessan Boyle’s new collection, “Wild Child,” is a fictional retelling of the life of Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron, born to a peasant family in revolutionary France under an unhappy star. His early hindrances include muteness, a “lax” mind and an unsympathetic stepmother, who, when Victor [...]
Read the rest of this story »By TOM CARSON nytimes.com Apart from a certain shared apprehension of immortality — complacent in one case, but endearingly gingerly in the other — the skinny 28-year-old on the cover of Patti Smith’s seismic 1975 album, “Horses,” doesn’t look much at all like Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein. But because the shutterbug was Robert Mapplethorpe, [...]
Read the rest of this story »By LARRY ROHTER WHO doesn’t have childhood memories of field trips to the museum? After a morning of being guided through the paintings and sculptures of the great masters, everyone would head for the basement cafeteria, where you would stand in line, plastic trays in hand, waiting to be treated to a lunch of rubbery [...]
Read the rest of this story »By MARK BITTMAN GUMBO, the Southern stew, is like many regional dishes: there are nearly as many interpretations as there are cooks. Most include the common Louisiana trinity of vegetables: green peppers, celery and onion. Some include meat, often a spicy sausage like andouille, in addition to or in place of shellfish. And while some [...]
Read the rest of this story »By MELISSA CLARK THE test of a dip is what happens when the chips and crudités run out. A mediocre dip will sit there until its creamy peaks congeal. A truly great dip manages to somehow disappear — via cheese cubes or hunks of bread, even surreptitious fingers, whatever it takes — until the bowl [...]
Read the rest of this story »(AFP) – Africa Cup of Nations finalists Ghana, beset by a bagful of injuries to star players, suffered a fresh setback on Friday involving inspirational captain Richard Kingson. The Ghana and Wigan goalkeeper is one of only a handful of experienced players available to the Black Stars, who face champions Egypt in Sunday’s final. But [...]
Read the rest of this story »By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES nytimes.com LOS ANGELES — Will it soon be time for 20th Century Fox’s “Avatar” to surrender the 3-D stage? Walt Disney Studios certainly thinks so. “Alice in Wonderland,” a 3-D adaptation from Tim Burton and Disney, is set to replace “Avatar” in all commercial Imax theaters and in many [...]
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