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Margaret Drabble chides Joseph Epstein for wrongly attributing the phrase 'cunty fingers' to John Updike, when it was Henry Green in his Paris Review interview (October 27). The quotation came [...]

The article explores Fredric Jameson's intellectual evolution from a desire to popularize Marxist theory in the context of American readership, tracing his journey from early essays to the development of the concept of 'political unconscious' in works like "The Political Unconscious."

Stormwater tunnels often have massive geometries, with conduit lengths of several kilometers and a wide range of diameter sizes. Modeling rapid filling of these systems is a complex task and needs adequate methodology. One model used in hydraulic analysis of stormwater tunnels is the EPA's Storm Water Management Model (SWMM). However, model setup conditions related to a pressurization algorithm can significantly affect SWMM's accuracy in surge prediction. This work evaluates SWMM 5.1 accuracy in simulating rapid filling of tunnels, particularly surging conditions. This evaluation is done using a real-world tunnel geometry, the Upper Des Plaines Tunnel, which is part of Chicago's TARP tunnel system. Variables considered in the SWMM model setup include discretization strategy and pressurization algorithm, and its results are compared with HAST predictions, a model specifically designed to represent surges in tunnels. This work shows that, with adequate setup, SWMM can represent surging in stormwater tunnels much more precisely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

J. M. Coetzee THE SCHOOLDAYS OF JESUS 272pp. Harvill Secker. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 9112 1535 6 Jan Wilm THE SLOW PHILOSOPHY OF J. M. COETZEE 264pp. Bloomsbury. 60 [...]

HOU HSIAO-HSIEN Complete retrospective BFI Southbank, until October 7 Richard Suchenski, editor HOU HSIAO-HSIEN 256pp. Austrian Film Museum. $12.99. 978 3 901644 58 X THE ASSASSIN BFI London Film Festival, [...]

An introduction to the journal is presented which discusses topics within the issue including moment of cubism; and the book "The Success and Failure of Picasso" by John Berger.

AMERICAN HUSTLE THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Various cinemas The films that feel most lifelike in their depiction of passion and mania tend to have a documentary basis, even if [...]

Sir,--Terry Eagleton's intriguing and highly nuanced essay on the death of post-structuralism (June 10) made much of the connection between the 1968 student revolts in Paris and Jacques Derrida's arrival [...]

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN OBLIVION Various cinemas The film critic Pauline Kael, who 'lost it at the movies' in the 1930s, had lost interest in them by the 1980s, but she [...]

Geoff Dyer ZONA 240pp. Canongate. 16.99 [pounds sterling] (US $43.25). 978 0 85786 166 5 Nariman Skakov THE CINEMA OF TARKOVSKY Labyrinths of space and time 266pp. I. B. Tauris. [...]

MOONRISE KINGDOM Various cinemas Wes Anderson's new comedy pushes the imaginative exuberance of his past work to a new extreme. The private school in Rushmore, with its violent, foul-mouthed, enterprising [...]

THE MASTER Various cinemas Paul Thomas Anderson's new film The Master, his first since There Will Be Blood, arrives at a point of high fever in the ongoing debate about [...]

F FOR FAKE Various cinemas FALSTAFF Chimes at Midnight DVD. 11 [pounds sterling]. Tales of decline-and-fall or crash-and-burn, of dashed hopes or failed promise, offer a pleasingly clean and legible [...]

THE DESCENDANTS YOUNG ADULT Various cinemas Independent cinema, its whole identity a counter-identity, has always introduced audiences to different kinds of performers (Jack Nance, Divine, Greta Gerwig) but in recent [...]

SHAME Various cinemas This admirable and frustrating drama starts out as a slice of life, but the slice turns into a narrative arc, or a learning curve. We are given [...]