Whiteread's development, like Martin's, has nothing to do with sudden leaps, novel effects or an evermore hysterical, market-driven demand to entertain.
His novel "Sudden Death" is forthcoming, from Riverhead.
Their suicides are like the other brutal events in the novel: sudden eruptions of violence thrown up by relentless underlying forces.
There's a quality of the gothic at work: the elements of the novel — sudden violence, black spectres, an interminable past — are reminiscent of Melville's great story "Benito Cereno," in which Catholic mystery and African presence come together uncannily.
The new backbone could help streamline annual vaccine production, which could be especially relevant during a pandemic, notes Kawaoka's group, when the sudden emergence of novel strains forces companies to rapidly make millions of doses of a new vaccine.
The sudden emergence of novel influenza viruses is a global public health concern.
The sudden production of novel adaptations independent of correlated negative fitness effects would facilitate "peak shifts" from previously adapted optimal phenotypes to distant phenotypic optima, effectively by-passing lower fitness intermediates.
Such rare beneficial events may explain parts of the sudden emergence of novel functional capacities.
"Lullaby" can be read as a punk novel with sudden synth-pop interludes.
In the novel, the sudden appearance of Auster himself is a neat piece of trickery; in the comic, the same episode has unexpectedly startling power.
