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...sausages, not something civilians necessarily want to see made. Still, Ricks' reporting and insight from the front lines of Iraq support his conclusion that the U.S. is likely to be fighting there until at least 2015. His first book on the war, 2006's Fiasco, was a bleak tale of martial malfeasance. His second suggests there may be light at the end of the tunnel, but if there is, it's flickering--and a long...
Frozen River Saw this first in Sundance and fell in love with the beyond-powerful performances by Melissa Leo and Misty Upham. A gritty, suspenseful tale of two women who engage in smuggling immigrants over the Canadian border...
...Soldier of the Great War, by Mark Helprin One of my favorite books, which I'm rereading. This gorgeous tale unfolds in Umbria as an old man walks--for three days--with a young boy and recounts his experiences in World War I, a war that the boy knows nothing about. The language is exquisite, the imagery powerful, and funny...
Among members of my family, the word bath is pronounced "baff." It's not that we have some hereditary speech defect or obscure regional accent. It's because at one point or another, we all read Donald Barthelme's novel Snow White, a retelling of the classic fairy tale, and became obsessed with it. In Barthelme's version, the seven dwarfs say "baff" instead of "bath." I don't know why. But now we do too. (The dwarfs also sleep with Snow White and sell Chinese-themed baby food for a living. They still say "heigh-ho," though...
Holding Back Middle East Peace The sad tale of "lonesome doves" in Israel was particularly disturbing because, despite massive damage and misery, the violence will not solve a thing for either side [Feb. 2]. The Oslo accords outlined a mutually agreeable vision of a two-state solution. But each side has an intractable minority that will accept nothing short of everything it wants. Until each side makes an absolute commitment to controlling its own hard-liners - whatever it takes - the conflict will never end. Richard Jepson, SEQUIM, WASH...