{"id":98523,"date":"2016-05-24T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=98523"},"modified":"2016-05-24T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:58:08","slug":"my-chemical-romance-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/24\/my-chemical-romance-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"My Chemical Romance, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/chemical-1-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-98534 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/chemical-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/chemical-1-1.jpg 545w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/chemical-1-1-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in fancy Russian plagiarism scandals: upward of a\u00a0thousand prosperous Russian bureaucrat types, all with doctoral degrees, stand accused of having bought their dissertations on the black market. Leon Neyfakh reports: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/cover_story\/2016\/05\/the_thriving_russian_black_market_in_dissertations_and_the_crusaders_fighting.html\" target=\"_blank\">The alleged fraud was exposed by members of a volunteer organization that calls itself \u2018Dissernet\u2019<\/a> \u2026 Started in early 2013 by a handful of scientists and journalists, the group has undertaken the task of identifying and publicly shaming government functionaries, academic administrators, and members of Russia\u2019s so-called elite who allegedly hold advanced degrees they did not earn through legitimate means \u2026 Some of the intellectual theft Dissernet has identified is comic in its brazenness and absurdity. Duma member Igor Igoshin allegedly earned his economics degree by turning someone else\u2019s paper on the Russian chocolate industry into a thesis on meat; the dissertation replaced every mention of \u2018chocolate\u2019 with \u2018beef,\u2019 \u2018dark chocolate\u2019 with \u2018home-grown beef,\u2019 and \u2018white chocolate\u2019 with \u2018imported beef.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, it\u2019s back in print: the unforgettable story of an alchemical marriage and the horny old coot who watched it happen! Johann Valentin Andreae\u2019s 1616 story,\u00a0<em>The Chemical Wedding<\/em>,\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/may\/23\/work-from-1616-is-the-first-ever-science-fiction-novel\" target=\"_blank\">opens as a winged woman, \u2018so bright and beautiful, in a sky-coloured robe,\u2019 invites Christian Rosencreutz\u2014the real-life founder of the philosophical secret society of Rosicrucianism\u2014to a \u2018Royal Wedding.\u2019<\/a> \u2018If God Himself decree it, Then you must to the mountain wend Where three stately temples stand. From there you\u2019ll know Which way to go. Be wise, take care, Wash well, look fair, Or else the Wedding cannot save you,\u2019 says a letter which sends Christian on a seven-day journey to serve the Bridegroom and the Bride, in [John] Crowley\u2019s new version of the text \u2026 \u2018When Andreae confessed late in life to writing it he called it a <em>ludibrium<\/em>\u2014a Latin word that can mean a joke, a skit, a jeux d\u2019esprit, or a hoax. I don\u2019t think he was trying to disown it, but he certainly didn\u2019t seem to want it taken with full seriousness. And it\u2019s the fun, the outlandish incident, the surprises, and the wonderful main character\u2014Christian Rosenkreutz, an old self-doubting, curious, kindly, horny guy\u2014all that\u2019s what I wanted to bring to new readers.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>American sitcoms have a congenital, national defect: they\u2019re too optimistic to be really funny, because life is pain.\u00a0But Willa Paskin sees a turn in the road: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/04\/25\/sharon-horgan-the-brutal-romantic-behind-catastrophe\" target=\"_blank\">There\u2019s another way to understand what has happened to American comedy in recent years: it has become more British. The hallmark of the British sitcom is a quasi-unbearable protagonist who is an Everyman, only insofar as every man can laugh at him<\/a> \u2026 U.K. sitcoms tend to be darker than American ones, encouraged by a powerful public broadcasting system whose aim is to serve the varying tastes of taxpayers, not the upbeat preferences of advertisers, and by a national psyche fixated on the immutability of the class system, not on a dream of self-improvement. Americans believe that things will get better. Brits laugh at how things stay the same. To become a hit in the United States, <em>The Office<\/em> not only had to transform the tragic, grating boss into a less tragic, less grating, more well-meaning boss; it had to cast off the message, central to the British original, that work is where you go to waste your life.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Late last year, debate simmered about Primo Levi\u2019s 1987 death: Was it a suicide? 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It is impossible to \u2018fall\u2019 over it.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>William Gibson brings his cyberpunk sensibility to a new comic, <em>Archangel<\/em>, which of course features a time machine with an ominous name: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2016\/05\/archangel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Described by its author as a \u2018<em>Band of Brothers<\/em> [meets] Blackwater\u2019 sci-fi conspiracy thriller, <em>Archangel<\/em> follows two clashing groups vying for the control\/survival of the future through the conquest\/alteration of the past<\/a> \u2026 The year is a (thankfully alternate) 2016, a world ravaged by unseen nuclear devastation, with the human race hanging on the edge of survival. Junior Henderson, the power-hungry vice president to his despotic father, has just undergone facial reconstructive surgery. 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