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BEST OF WEB
The Wayward Essay
‘The Fun Stuff,’ by James Wood, and More
By PARUL SEHGAL
“Personality is the essayist’s “most dangerous and delicate tool,” Virginia Woolf wrote. It’s also the most tempting. We see its risks with Roiphe and its rewards in the year’s most disheveling innovations: “My Poets,” by Maureen N. McLane, and “Madness, Rack and Honey,” by Mary Ruefle. Both books toggle between cool close readings and feverish interpretations, even deliberate distortions. Their criticism is moody and humid, kindled by lust and longing but never less than rigorous.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/books/review/the-fun-stuff-by-james-wood-and-more.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 

A Masterpiece You Might Not Want to See
Francine Prose
“Amour is a love story all right, or at least the final chapter of one. In its intensity, its unflinching determination to track what happens to the dying and those around them, it recalls “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.” But while I have read Tolstoy’s story several times and expect to read it again, I can’t imagine wanting to see Amour a second time. Why would I voluntarily put myself through the awfulness of watching the scenes in which the couple struggles to navigate the suddenly staggering demands of the wheelchair, the knife and fork, the toilet?”

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http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jan/07/haneke-film-not-to-see/

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