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Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
Tags: Gunter Grass, Kenzaburo Oe, Jane Austen, Vladimir Putin, Richard Ford
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New in paperback: Huxley's demons and the grace of Hanif Kureishi
![<b>Aldous Huxley: "The Devils of Loudun</b><b>" (HarperPerennial)</b>](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-10/49623372-02125824.gif "<b>Aldous Huxley: "The Devils of Loudun</b><b>\" (HarperPerennial)</b>")
Aldous Huxley: "The Devils of Loudun" (HarperPerennial)
In 1643, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. The convent's charismatic priest was eventually convicted of seducing the nuns in his charge...Tags: Salvador Allende, Crimes, World War II (1939-1945), Les Miserables (musical), Poetry
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The magical and the elemental, from Halldór Laxness
By Richard Rayner
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"Summer up here in the north is beautiful," my Finnish father-in-law once said. "Last year it was on a Thursday." The great Icelandic novelist Halldór Laxness develops this idea in his masterwork, "Independent People": "They stood in...Tags: Angela Carter, Crimes, Awards and Prizes, Fraud, Corporate Crime
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Ilan Stavans' 'The Disappearance' comes to Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPine forests must shudder at Ilan Stavans' very name. A scholar, fiction writer, literary critic, lexicographer, graphic novelist, public television host and all-around intellectual go-to guy on matters Judaic and Latino, the Amherst College professor...Tags: California, National or Ethnic Minorities, Arts and Culture, Judaism, Death
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Jacket Copy
Shiver me timbers R.L. Stine, author of the beloved "Goosebumps" series of creepy, crawly stories, is heading to "HorrorLand." The ghoulish theme park will be the springboard for 12 new tales, with Scholastic Books planning to release the first two...Tags: Henry Ward Beecher, The Road (movie), Restaurant and Catering Industry, Primo Levi, Rosie O'Donnell
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'The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes'
![There must be something in the water in Philadelphia. It's where David Lynch conceived his astonishing debut film, "Eraserhead," and it's where the Quay brothers (who are identical twins) came of age as artists. All three filmmakers seem to have a direct line to the realm of the collective id, where Jungian archetypes and characters from the Brothers Grimm play out dark tales of eros and death.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-11/26669825.jpg "There must be something in the water in Philadelphia. It's where David Lynch conceived his astonishing debut film, "Eraserhead,\" and it's where the Quay brothers (who are identical twins) came of age as artists. All three filmmakers seem to have a direct line to the realm of the collective id, where Jungian archetypes and characters from the Brothers Grimm play out dark tales of eros and death.")
Special to The TimesThere must be something in the water in Philadelphia. It's where David Lynch conceived his astonishing debut film, "Eraserhead," and it's where the Quay brothers (who are identical twins) came of age as artists. All three filmmakers seem to have a...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Invention and Innovation, Disasters, Movies, Death
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