by bertbaby | Dec 25, 2013 | Book Reviews
Half a decade after her death, Benazir Bhutto’s assassination still haunts Pakistan.
by bertbaby | Dec 25, 2013 | Book Reviews
December 25: “The mighty Soviet army relinquishes an empire of subject republics without firing a shot.”
by bertbaby | Dec 24, 2013 | Book Reviews
An inviting pile of season’s readings — magical, mysterious, and mirthful.
by bertbaby | Dec 24, 2013 | Book Reviews
Dickens did not quite “invent” Christmas, as it is sometimes claimed, but, ever since A Christmas Carol was published in 1843, Scrooge’s Yuletide nightmares and joyful Christmas morning have become as much a part of the popular idea of the...
by bertbaby | Dec 24, 2013 | Book Reviews
December 24: “Who are these scribes who…sway with such serene incapacity the office which they so lately swept?”
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