4. The Polivka-Miller paper: On the substance, readers can come to their own conclusions by examining the report themselves, particularly the chart and related narrative addressing "Duration of Unemployment" on page 23 (pdf).
Kafka is one of Coetzee's literary heroes and, like Kafka, Coetzee exhibits a near biblical simplicity of prose and narrative, addressing the human condition while meditating on post-apartheid South Africa - a natural Nobel laureate.
In addition to boasting beautiful, occasionally haunting visuals with its distinctive stop-motion style, "Kubo" mines folklore and tradition from its ancient Japan setting and visits rare territory in family features by unflinchingly examining delicate, even uncomfortable themes in its hero narrative, addressing emotions around loss and family with an uncommon grace. .
Applying neo-Freudian analysis to stories including Cinderella and Snow White, he showed how these narratives address the unconscious in a language similar to dreams, helping kids deal with a plethora of unspoken fears and desires, from sibling rivalry to ambivalence toward their parents.
Krauss's narrative addresses memory, love and loss; how our yearnings are enacted down the generations.
Barbara Bleiman and book group, London (Crouch End) My book group year has oscillated between predictable choices (Brick Lane, Oryx and Crake, Unless) and more obscure but perhaps better discussion-generators like Kressman Taylor's slim but powerful wartime narrative, Address Unknown, letters between a Jewish emigre in New York and his German 'friend'friend
Ben's narrative is addressed to Jakob, whose memoirs he is trying to find.
Ukip articulated a narrative that addressed these concerns in a way that other parties didn't, even if it failed to offer any real solutions to the uneven and sometimes unfair impact of a new economic order.
When she finally interrupts the family narrative to address the part of her life she must know readers will be curious about, Janowitz clams up.
