The tension and violence on America’s big-city streets erupts in semiautomatic weapon fire to launch “The Laws of Our Fathers,” Scott Turow’s gripping new novel. A white senator’s ex-wife and a black teenage street whore are left sprawled like the detritus of the night on bloodied...
Hutus are examined for Tutsi parents and grandparents, are expected to murder their Tutsi wives and inlaws, their children. Every man has a machete which he is expected to use. Tutsi women are raped, tortured, dismembered. The streets are littered with bodies. Mukagasana becomes separated first...
O’Brien/O’Nolan admitted it himself in a letter to William Saroyan: “When you are writing about the world of the dead–and the damned–where none of the rules and laws (not even the law of gravity) holds good, there is any amount of scope for back-chat and funny cracks.” Many ...