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...flies to Beijing, where he will meet with the leaders of a nation which, however much its economic future may be linked to that of the U.S., is certainly not an ally. In the last two months a veritable squadron of top U.S. officials-including Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, Trade Representative Rob Portman and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld-have visited Beijing, to praise China's economic development out of one side of their mouth, while complaining of Chinese behavior on everything from piracy to defense spending from the other. So far, China's main response to U.S. lectures...
When U.S. army deserter Charles Robert Jenkins was allowed to leave North Korea in 2004 after nearly 40 years, North Korean officials rifled through his personal belongings, Jenkins says, and confiscated family photographs that included anyone other than himself, his wife and their two daughters. Or so they thought. In their haste, the North Korean censors missed a 1984 photo taken in Wonsan on the country's east coast. At first glance, it is an innocuous family snap of Jenkins with his wife Hitomi Soga and their first daughter Mika during a rare trip to the beach...
Ever since his coruscating book Mad in America was published in 2002, American Robert Whitaker has been a poster boy for the anti-psychiatry movement. In Mad in America (Perseus Books), he argued that the assumption of a physical cause for schizophrenia had given rise to many wrongheaded treatments, from ice-water immersion to today's antipsychotic drugs. These days, the Pulitzer Prize finalist makes a similar case against psychiatry over its approach to the treatment of depression...
Martin isn't the best known of America's straight-up fantasy writers. That honor would probably go to upstart Christopher Paolini (Eragon), or Robert Jordan (the endlessly turning Wheel of Time series), or better yet to ageless grandmistress Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea). But of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact, with his newest book, A Feast for Crows (Bantam; 784 pages), currently descending on bookstores and ascending best-seller lists, this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien...
...Crows is the fourth volume of a series with the deceptively Renaissance fair-y name A Song of Ice and Fire. It's set mostly in the Seven Kingdoms, an unstable amalgamation of nations caught in the act of vigorously ripping itself to shreds following the death of King Robert Baratheon. Martin shoots the action from many angles, with a dozen narrators, the better to reflect its gritty, twisty, many-sided nature and its vast cast of would-be queens and kings, rogues, bastards, bandits, madmen, mercenaries, exiles, priests and various uncategorizable wild cards. Martin may write fantasy...