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...something of a strain for a man who, until recently, was so averse to exposure that he refused to be photographed. But Jiang is enduring it as part of the worldwide launch of the much touted English-language translation of his book, which has just been released by Penguin...
...Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. These conversations can also be heard weekly on the Morning Edition program on NPR. Now, Isay has edited a compelling new book with dozens of StoryCorps profiles, Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project (Penguin Press). TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Isay, 42, from Chicago, where he was on his book tour...
...codicil adopted in 1991. It does an admirable job of protecting the land - banning nuclear material, declaring the Antarctic to be a "natural reserve, devoted to peace and science," and prohibiting any mining - but not the surrounding seas, which support a singular ecosystem ranging from krill to penguin, from seal to whale...
...knew Andrew would not be able to tell the full story until he had safely left Burma but that it would be worth the wait. For few foreigners know Burma as intimately as he, and nobody has written about it with more power. His book The Trouser People (Penguin; 2003) is the definitive account of modern Burmese society. Andrew arrived in Rangoon just in time to catch the uprising at its most optimistic: the monks had been joined by thousands of ordinary Burmese, infused with hope that they would get the junta to bend and perhaps break. Andrew joined...
...bloody anti-Muslim riots of 1992, Vijay is sent by his editor to a mountain tea town where a religious shrine threatens to become the rallying point for another bout of violence. The novel is both artful rhetoric and page-turning thriller. Davidar, the former head of publishing giant Penguin's India operations (and now Penguin's top man in Canada), keeps the story rolling on even as he sketches wonderful little scenes of Indian life and explores religious zealotry and the kind of communal madness that periodically grips parts of the country...