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Time Out says Truman Capote’s life is explored in a doc that mixes incisiveness and muddle Writer and socialite Truman Capote was always a somewhat enigmatic figure. He was notoriously prone to exaggeration and outright fabrication, which makes the task of unraveling the story of his life all the more difficult. First-time documentarian Ebs Burnough (a former advisor to Michelle Obama) makes a valiant effort with The Capote Tapes, an exploration of its subject that mines newly-discovered tap...

An illuminating comparison of Ann Petrys The Street and Gwendolyn Brookss Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohatas The Floating World and Chang-rae Lees Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ("Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres," AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature "represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States" and how "these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and...