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The underraters, both in and outside the U.S. government, demur. They argue that America's dealings with Beijing lack strategic vision. They also contend that public hectoring and flip-flops over human rights, nuclear nonproliferation and now Taiwan have created dissonance in China policy: a U.S. trade official talks of...
Ackroyd unfolds and eventually provides a solution for these crimes through a succession of short chapters and shifting points of view. Much of the attention goes to a woman once known as Lambeth Marsh Lizzie, who escaped poverty by way of the London music halls, giving innocent performances of suggestive...
Anyone who has followed American political discourse of late knows that the answer to both questions is yes -- as long as the bashee is a white heterosexual male. If, as in this case, he is also a Los Angeles policeman who is unwilling to confront his repressed homosexuality, so much...
Jiang is determined to show that he is different. He has assiduously courted important political power centers like the military while putting cronies from Shanghai into top positions. Lately he has also shown a willingness to punish his enemies, real and potential, turning one of the country's periodic anticorruption...
Which they certainly will be in Antproof, a wonderfully strange and funny novel. Here's the hero, learning by the succession of paintings in his office that his position in a Manhattan bank is shaky. First his Rembrandt is replaced by a Durer: "Within a week, however, it too was...