One former colleague, informed that the mayor had admitted to reading a novel, responded in shock: "That's not the Mike Bloomberg I know".
"War with the Newts" is "really biting parody," says Onoda Power, noting that, while the original novel responded to the dark political clouds gathering over Europe in the 1930s, the story also speaks to recent American concerns about racial injustice, wage inequity and abuses of migrant labor.
there is a new narrative to be written about Ulysses as a novel responding to Cubism and its complex semiotics" (335).
Recognising that novels respond to deep psychological impulses, Storr employs a mixture of neuroscience and psychology to explore why it is that the novel has become such a staple of our cultural lives.
As the discourse of international law coalesced, literary works from romances and tragedies to novels responded to its unfulfilled ambitions and inexorable failures, occasionally affirming it, often contesting it, always uncovering its problems and rehearsing imaginary solutions.
It examines how American novels respond to the pressures of what has been called the paradox of the postrace era: that our images and rhetoric portray a nation moving toward racial equality while our statistics actually reveal the opposite.
When an interviewer asked why she hadn't published an autobiographical first novel, she responded, "Because I'm North African, and I didn't want to identify myself uniquely with that.
I asked Bob why his wife had decided not to record the audio version of her novel; he responded, "Wait — there's an audiobook?" When he had asked Lee hopefully if her publisher was going to have her record the audiobook, she replied, "Not this time, I guess".
When an employee is bound by rules and policies that rigidly define how they interact with customers, they won't have the opportunity to create novel solutions, respond in the moment to address a customer's needs or concerns, or feel competent and autonomous in their roles.
