Year: 2004

On the issue of morality in international politics, it sometimes seems there’s a structural difficulty in the discussion. On the one hand, there are polit...

Terrill Lee Lankford knows his way around Hollywood. EARTHQUAKE WEATHER came out earlier this year from Ballantine. The novel’s inciting incident is the North...

I am not sure whether to be surprised or comforted by the fact that of the 100 books of note the New York Times listed, I have read exactly one (Surprise, Secur...

Forgive the cheap pun in the title but I am beginning to think I should read Marilynne Robinson’s latest novel. James Wood had some heady praise for the w...

Looking for something a little more lighthearted after having read The Flame Tree I decided a great contrast to that serious and emotional book would be the lat...

Back in the Fifties, a cereal company began a promotion offering one square inch of Alaska in exchange for box tops. Box tops were an important currency then; s...