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You're doing a marathon reading of your book - eight nights, seven venues, over the next two months. Is it even worth it these days for authors to do readings unless they're going to be unique or kooky in some way? Readings are usually ... deadly. It can be kind...
China's Triumph I enjoyed reading your cover story on "China's Moment" [Sept. 28]. It's easy to conclude that, in China, free-market principles have proved once again their superiority by looking at the speed and scale of the country's development once liberalizing reforms were made. It...
Days later, the IEC discovered that sticking to its published safeguards would exclude enough fraudulent Karzai ballots to keep his total below 50%. This would lead to a second-round runoff, which Karzai desperately hoped to avoid. The IEC reconvened and voted 6 to 1 to drop safeguards, explaining that...
Olive, who is the picture of hospitable fertility - she describes herself to Philip as a "tree with birds in it" - represents that brand of early-20th century literary imagination that found its best expression in works for children. (Byatt modeled her on E. Nesbit, author of The Railway Children and...
If you're in Lamont this afternoon, perhaps trying to cram for next week's midterm for Stephen Pinker's class ("Why is it so hard? It's supposed to be a Core!") or catch up in one sitting on the whole last month's worth of reading for Paul...