(By Rob Lowman, Los Angeles Daily News) Prepare to be rocked. That was what I was told when approaching James Nachtwey's photo collage "The Sacrifice," which is part of a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum called "Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography Since the Sixties."It is 60 operating-room photos, a stack of three prints (measuring about 31/2 feet high) and print after print running a bit more than 32 feet long. They were taken while the photographer was traveling with an emergency military medical unit in Iraq in 2006 and show doctors and nurses working to save the lives of wounded servicemen and civilians.Read more:
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(The Associated Press) Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes are reuniting for a trans-Atlantic production of "Richard III," producers announced Thursday.Spacey will play the villainous English king in a production of Shakespeare's play directed by Mendes, which is set for an international tour in 2012.Read more:
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(By Summer Moore, Associated Press) After more than 60 years, over 50 books and a Nobel Peace Prize, Elie Wiesel is still struggling with what it means to be a Holocaust survivor.In his new novel, "The Sonderberg Case," Yedidyah is the child of survivors. He is a would-be actor turned theater critic, assigned by his New York newspaper editors to help cover the murder trial of a young German accused of killing his uncle. On the first day of the trial, Yedidyah hears Werner Sonderberg declare himself both guilty and innocent.Read more:
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(By Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) Jonathan Franzen's galvanic new novel, "Freedom," showcases his impressive literary toolkit - every essential storytelling skill, plus plenty of bells and whistles - and his ability to throw open a big, Updikean picture window on American middle-class life. With this book, he's not only created an unforgettable family, he's also completed his own transformation from a sharp-elbowed, apocalyptic satirist focused on sending up the socio-economic-political plight of this country, into a kind of 19th-century realist concerned with the public and private lives of his characters.Whereas Franzen's first novel, "The Twenty-Seventh City," borrowed liberally from the likes of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo to create a dark, splashy picture of a futuristic St. Louis, his 2001 best-seller, "The Corrections," signaled his determination to write an American sort of "Buddenbrooks," to conjure contemporary America - not by going for a cartoonish, zeitgeist-y epic but by deconstructing a family's history to give us a wide-angled portrait of the country as it rumbled into the materialistic 1990s.Read more:
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Dear Amy: Is my 68-year-old mother's refusal to cook (even already prepared food) for herself and my father a possible sign of depression?(My mother won't allow my father in the kitchen to do the cooking either.)Read more:
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How magical it can be in chess when the curtain is raised and we engage in a move-by-move post-game analysis.The sometimes bitter circumstance of sporting conflict - individual will pitted against individual will - becomes a shared, and even a collective, experience when moves made by other players in similar positions also become part of the discussion.Read more:
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