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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 tapes of interviews with Capote’s friends and enemies, originally conducted by journalist George Plim...

An illuminating comparison of Ann Petry's The Street and Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohata's The Floating World and Chang-rae Lee's 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 gender lines." The critics' conclusion is that both the African American and Asian American gro...