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...fall, when Tibetans rioted in Lhasa, their Chinese rulers killed as many as 32 people, the Dalai Lama held his first major press conference in Dharmsala, and the U.S. Senate unanimously condemned the Chinese actions. Riots have erupted in recent weeks, but even before that, the modest man in monk's raiment had found himself not only the spiritual symbol linking 100,000 Tibetans in exile to the 6 million still living under Chinese rule, but also, more than ever, a political rallying point. "The 14th Dalai Lama may be the most popular Dalai Lama of all," he says, smiling...
...goes the monk's balding pate, the scholar's red beard, the halfback's broad shoulders...
Historical novelty is a widespread preoccupation of mystery writers, whether to vary their stories or display newly found erudition or simply to write off a vacation trip on their tax returns. Ellis Peters offers her 14th chronicle of Brother Cadfael, a resolutely logical monk who is a 12th century forerunner of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown, in The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Mysterious Press; 224 pages; $15.95). Peters' narratives suffer from cuteness and rarely make medieval people come alive as convincingly as, say, the ancient Greeks and Persians in the novels of Mary Renault. But she weaves a plot ably...
...settings range from an Indian hill station to funky downtown Detroit. The protagonists include a 12th century monk and a modern gay insurance investigator. No wonder crime fiction often seems to be not one genre but many. Its best, most venturesome writers, like the players in Hamlet, perform in veins lyrical, tragical, comical and historical -- and above all enjoyable...
...genius and a complete rogue can be formed before a man is of age." Genius because Chatterton's verses were so prodigious, rogue because the young poet once wrote in an archaic style, artificially aged the paper, then claimed to have discovered the works of a bogus 15th century monk...