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+ In addition to running different covers, these editions contain an enriched diet of world news, reporting not only on politics but also on business and back-of-the-book subjects from art to video. The international editions even have several sections of their own, including Traveler's Advisory, a breezy...
On the road, Naipaul operates largely through honed instinct, avoiding official sources and searching for the obscure informant and off-center incident. Asked why he did not interview Reuben Greenberg, the black Jewish police chief of Charleston, S.C., Naipaul grimaces and says simply, "Too obvious." An ironic comment, considering that...
But amnesia, the disorder of advanced electronic societies, is not the only possible derangement of national memory. There are cultures that remember nothing and cultures that forget nothing. Forgetting nothing might be worse. Remembering nothing produces a mere mindless, stumbling insouciance. Forgetting nothing produces paralysis and death.
A. It's just a bizarre mixture of cultures. There are evidently cultures where it is considered basically good etiquette to keep your left-turn signal on at all times. Then there are people who feel it's important to buy the largest possible car, the kind you can land...
Tony Hillerman's thrillers are usually painstaking, almost anthropological efforts to plunge into the folkways and mind-sets of Native Americans, primarily Navajos. The crimes and solutions nearly always center on the clash of cultures, indeed of metaphysics, in the sparsely populated badlands of the Southwest. But Hillerman's latest...