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...last book. But for readers secretly relieved to see the last of Lady Helen, this new mystery--the author's 13th--is a refreshing departure. It takes a long bus ride into London's mixed-race slums to tell the backstory of the kids who killed Her Ladyship. The hero of this tale is an 11-year-old boy named Joel, who has a retarded brother, an oversexed sister and a face covered by tea-cake-size splotches--"a physical expression of the ethnic and racial battle" raging in his blood. George, a U.S. writer whose British-style mysteries were...
...their leather jackets and tell them, as Max Eastman once told Hemingway, to come out from behind the false hair on their chest. But Parker is always a breezy read, and in this, his 34th Spenser mystery, the macho posturing is tempered by a plot that turns on his hero's vulnerability and one of his good deeds gone bad. A runaway he rescued from a life of low-rent prostitution (by putting her in the care of a high-priced madam) has dug herself into a hole so deep even Spenser may not be able to save...
...right now. I certainly don't see any politician that's a hero, on any party, anywhere. I think John McCain did something that I don't know if I could do, and I don't think many men can look in the mirror and say they'd do - give up a chance to get out of prison because his dad was an admiral, and the Vietnamese were going to let him go... I mean that took cojones, donating another three and a half to four years of his life to stay in prison, rather than...
...Jeremy Caplan about coping with tragedy, how Moses is misunderstood, and why prayer doesn't work the way some people think it does. TIME: Why did you focus your book around Moses? Kushner: I wanted to give people a more rounded picture of Moses, not simply the triumphant hero who splits the sea and works the miracles, but Moses the man who fails and perseveres, who gets over frustration and rejection. I don't need to learn from Moses how to split the Red Sea. I need to learn from Moses how to fail and not see myself...
...Iran's Populist Lost His Popularity With prices rising and the economy stagnating, Iranians view their President as less a national hero than the latest in a long line of ineffectual bureaucrats