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...picturesque streets and quaint customs made the place indelible in the annals of travel. Sadly, it was largely destroyed by foreign invaders in 1985 and rebuilt as an efficient, soulless resort destination. Morris' latest, perhaps most insightful book yet, titled simply Hav, helpfully reprints the entire 200-odd-page Last Letters from Hav before moving smoothly to its sequel, which describes the new Hav in all its globalized, deracinated glory. Hav's transformation is "a paradigm of our 21st century zeitgeist," Morris writes with the sadness of someone old enough to know how delightfully diverse the world used...
...Willow is less a greatest-hits collection than a compilation of quirky B-sides. But it includes some of Murakami's best work, such as the haunting "Tony Takitani," about a lonely illustrator who finds love with a young woman, then loses his wife in a car accident a page later. He is left to mourn in the empty room that once housed his wife's vast wardrobe-alone but not untouched in a classic Murakami ending. -By Bryan Walsh...
...independence from France in 1953. Building Cambodia documents the tragically short-lived style that resulted in a spate of striking buildings until its demise amid civil war and genocide not two decades later. Taking seven years of research to complete, and packed with rare photographs and illustrations, the 334-page hardback pays tribute to this remarkable cultural interlude when King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated the throne to personally oversee a 17-year construction boom. Implausible as it may seem amid today's frenetic construction of soulless apartment blocks and shopping centers, Phnom Penh was dubbed the "belle of Southeast Asia...
...Sacred Games Vikram Chandra Sartaj Singh, the hero of Vikram Chandra's 900-page novel, is a different kind of Bombay policeman. Not so different that he won't take a bribe-an entirely honest cop in Chandra's Bombay would be a freak of nature-but different enough to feel uneasy when doing so. Good things happen in Bombay to those who are different, and one day Singh gets the break of a lifetime: a tip-off about the location of Ganesh Gaitonde, India's most-wanted gangster. By the time Singh gets to him, though, Gaitonde is dead...
...sounds convincing, but will it put Diana conspiracy theories to rest? For most people, yes. But for conspiracy theorists and tabloid editors who see sales jump every time they can contrive a reason to put Diana's picture on the front page, probably not. Already this week, the blogs were buzzing with a report from a British newspaper claiming that "U.S. security services" had been bugging Diana's hotel room on the night of her death, prompting a highly unusual and direct refutation by the National Security Agency, the agency in charge of such things. "NSA did not target Princess...