In a new novel, France’s famously abrasive author progresses from barbed satire to a spiritual-conversion narrative.

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The singer, songwriter, and composer Randy Newman had a fascination with the legend of Faust that approached obsession.

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Those rat-proof bins? Not rat-proof after all.