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Nothing in his past accomplishments suggests that Safire would produce a tedious and seemingly endless work of fiction. In fact, Full Disclosure (1977), his first novel, was a sprightly, best-selling account of a beleaguered White House not entirely unlike Nixon's. But Freedom is another, infinitely longer story. Subtitled A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, the book inches its way from May 1861, shortly after the Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter, to Jan. 1, 1863, when President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. This takes just under 1,000 pages, followed by about 130 more, which...
...Communist Party official, and his mother, a distinguished historian, spent nearly two decades in labor camps and Siberian exile during the Stalin years. He was raised in provincial Kazan by an aunt, completed medical school in Leningrad and became a popular though officially censured novelist. The Burn, his fictional account of Stalin-era Siberia, was published abroad in 1980. For that offense he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship while traveling in the U.S. and found himself stranded there...
...with instructions that are twice as long as the form (estimated fill-out time, according to the IRS: 84 minutes). Some 15 million taxpayers must file Form 8582, detailing tax-shelter losses (72 minutes of work, says the IRS). Finally, for 5 million Americans still eligible for Individual Retirement Account deductions, Form 8606 will show how much of this year's contributions are deductible (20 minutes...
This past weekend the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta held its first national conference on AIDS and minorities. According to CDC statistics, although blacks and Hispanics constitute only 12% and 6% of the U.S. population, respectively, they currently account for a disproportionate 24% and 14% of the more than 39,200 reported AIDS cases in the U.S. For women with AIDS, the numbers are even more striking: some 52% of them are black and 20% Hispanic. Nearly 80% of all children with AIDS are either black or Hispanic...
...whatever means, the vast majority of crime writers reconcile themselves to return engagements. Thus despite the dangers, or at least doldrums, of repetition, series account for most of the current crop of top crime fiction. Perhaps the most impressive cumulative performance comes from Sir John Appleby, the fictional retired head of Scotland Yard and the signature detective of Michael Innes, a.k.a. J.I.M. Stewart, 80, a retired Oxford don who has been crafting wry, sprightly, often fanciful mysteries for more than half a century. The "ex-bobby," as he coyly calls himself, reappears in an umpteenth adventure, Appleby and the Ospreys...