Topic: November 2005
MR Miscellany [11.13.05]
• Book Feature: Shopping Cart Soldiers
from Times Online. "Mulligan described his style as 'Scottish magic realism with a slight leaning towards the surrealistic.' "
[11.13.05]
• Stage News: A Very Old Man With Enormous
Wings , presented by Los Angeles's Center
Theatre Group and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Nilo Cruz, opens at the Kirk Douglas Theater through
November 19 and will run through December
18.
from Playbill. "Based on a short story by Nobel
laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the work of magic
realism set in a small Caribbean town finds two
children who happen upon a very old man with
enormous wings who falls mysteriously from the
sky."
[11.12.05]
• Book Review: Isle of Passion by
Laura Restrepo
from Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Elements of
magical realism give Restrepo's finely wrought work
an ethereal quality, offsetting her stark portrayal of
humankind's capacity for cruelty."
[11.11.05]
• Book Review: Praying Mantis by Andre
Brink
from AllAfrica.com. "The magic realism in this
novel evolves around the presence and meaning of
the praying mantis, of stars and ancient piles of
stone or piles of stones erected along travellers'
routes throughout the country."
[11.11.05]
• Movie Review: Bee
Season
from Palo Alto Online. "The subtle heartbreak
of Searching for Bobby Fischer meets the dreamy
idealism of A Beautiful Mind in this cleverly
intentioned but slightly disjointed drama."