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David S. Kurnick

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Thief, Hustler, National Treasure

Genet: A Biography By Edmund White Knopf, $35 P erhaps more than any other writer of this century, Jean Genet


M(oronic) Butterfly

Directed by David Cronenberg; starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone; Warner Brothers; Rated R I n "M. Butterfly," East meets


Civil Rights, Not Civilization

R espected government professor and resident Harvard whiner Harvey Mansfield recently delivered his judgement of homosexuals: they are "irresponsible," "unhappy,"


Cirque du Soleil Offers A Vision of a Better Bigtop

Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco at Fan Pier through October 3 T here are moments during Cirque du Soleil's "Saltimbanco" when


Parties and Poetry

City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O' Hara by Brand Goch Random House Press, 30.00 Frank O'Hara's short


Bernhard's Second Book Mostly Cold, Haphazard Vignettes

"Love is the only shocking fact left on the fact of the earth," Sandra Bernhard declares near the beginning of


Middle Passages

I n Caryl Phillips' work, people are rarely at home. Caribbean citizens go to England in search of employment; British


Pedro Almodovar Offers A Funny, Flaming 'Desire'

"Law of Desire," the last film Pedro Almodovar made before his international hit "Women on the Verge of a Nervous


Brutal Facts, Beautiful Fiction

W riting and mourning seem like naturally inimical activities. How does one attain the detachment necessary to write while still