The coastal villages of Cley and Blakeney and the little town of Burnham Market ("mark-up" say the locals) have been gentrified but, as with Cornwall, Norfolk retains a distinct local identity (despite Alan Partridge's brilliant satire of generic provincialism): drily humoured, rebellious, sometimes suspicious, often eccentric.
The exhilarating, scary mutability of gender identity has recently inspired brilliant investigations like the Off Broadway musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and the film "Boys Don't Cry," but those are passionate and troubling works of art, to which "Gendernauts" might be seen as a useful set of footnotes.
They are brilliant novels of identity, controversy and are written with the kind of confidence teenagers wish they had.
The book ranges widely: there's a reminiscence of the author's days unloading boxes in East London warehouses; a condemnation of a vast new mall in West London ("a chlorine-green block, brand identity in italicized script"); a brilliant mini-essay on Roberto Bolaño.
She gave this brilliant consideration of nationality and identity an austere gravitas, especially on the anguished, staccato Bitter Branches.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, as Dido, a young woman grappling with racism and identity, yet arriving at self-acceptance, is brilliant.
In-gel fluorescence was imaged (Molecular Imager PharosFX Plus System; Bio-Rad), and the gels stained with Coomassie Brilliant Blue to confirm the identity of protein bands.
The only one of these three identities that's still going is the Brilliant Green.
Everyone is fine with their identity and the parents involved are all uniformly brilliant.
Able to improvise new identities for himself at will, Flexmore is a brilliant creation.
