The experienced mouse — the one in the experiment about the tiny cells in the brain that code for violence versus the ones that code for sex and how there is a twenty percent overlap — would not turn a hair at Starz’ program “Spartacus Blood and Sand,” even though it was deliberately...
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LUST CAUTION is an absolutely accurate title for this movie, but it’s better in Chinese because in Chinese it’s two word-characters. To me the second one looks a little like a sailing ship. But in fact, “The title is actually an untranslatable pun in Chinese, in which the words for “Caution” and “Ring” (as in jewelry) are written using the...
My red shoes. Never worn. My knees went out about the time I bought them and I never wore high heels after that. These are not as high as the heels in “The Red Shoe Diaries” which is the name of an erotic series — all about women who keep sad diaries about disappointed love and mail them to David Duchovny. A gimmick as old as Geisha pillow books and...
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Russell Banks claims in this interview below that when he sits on his terrace in Miami, he can see under a causeway to a little encampment of pariahs. He began to wonder about them, went down to visit, did some library research and came up with this plot to explain what was going on down there: first, a likeable but clueless young man with a pet iguana; second, a professor...
In our usual binary way, the reading public has actually registered only two things: paper books which we recognize as objects and pack into our lives on that basis while knowing very little about how they get made; and ebooks which we see only through the glass window of the little tech gizmos. But the REAL impact of this difference is behind the scenes and the DEEPEST...