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...easy) is, we are told, the essential phrase to learn in Cuba. If you're bound for Botswana, make sure you try a glass of bojalwa, the local sorghum beer. Want to know more about life Down Under? Then you're urged to check out David Malouf's novel Remembering Babylon for a "compelling insight into the dynamics of early-colonial Australia." Stocking fillers have rarely been so free-ranging or informative...
...beat the others for any infractions committed. They were allowed to watch only the one state television station, listen to the one state radio station, read only approved books in Korean, and no books at all in English. Jenkins, however, once got hold of James Clavell's novel Shogun. He hid it and read it, he says, more than 20 times...
...list of Massachusetts firsts is dizzying: the nation’s first college, published newspaper, published novel, free public school, public park, public library, Thanksgiving, railroad, subway and basketball game, to name a few. And naturally there are the local trailblazers: Paul Revere, Sam and John Adams, John F. Kennedy ’40, etc. But the real essence of this place lies in something less quantifiable—the V-word, if you will...
...easy) is, we are told, the essential phrase to learn in Cuba. If you're bound for Botswana, make sure you try a glass of bojalwa, the local sorghum beer. Want to know more about life Down Under? Then you're urged to check out David Malouf's novel Remembering Babylon for a "compelling insight into the dynamics of early-colonial Australia." Stocking fillers have rarely been so free-ranging or informative. The same might be said of the Luxe city guides - the other hot seasonal choice. Billed as "brutally frank and sometimes, frankly, brutal," these slick, concertina booklets offer...
There's a running gag in Floater, Calvin Trillin's 1980 comic novel about a newsmagazine that sounds a lot like TIME, in which the medicine writer comes down with the symptoms of whatever disease he's writing about that week. I was reminded of that hapless writer when I read about a new study out of University College London that found that people who use the Web to get information about their chronic diseases often wind up in worse shape than before they logged...