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This was the year fantasy and reality met, snuggled and produced a litter of hybrids. On shelves, the travel book Hav is fiction disguised as fact, while crime thriller The Medici Conspiracy is fact that reads like fiction. In cinemas, Borat was a make-believe man out to reveal the true America; United 93 was an awful truth that could only be revealed through make-believe. Here are our picks of 2006: real stories, tall tales and somethings-in-between. [an error occurred while processing this directive]1. Jan Morris...
...Welsh travel writer Morris has described nearly every interesting place on the planet. Unique among them is Hav, the Levantine city-state she put on the map two decades ago with her first novel Last Letters from Hav - and which exists only in her mind. The author's word-portraits of Hav's picturesque streets and quaint customs made the place indelible in the annals of travel. Sadly, it was largely destroyed by foreign invaders in 1985 and rebuilt as an efficient, soulless resort destination. Morris' latest, perhaps most insightful book yet, titled simply Hav, helpfully reprints the entire...
...cold, wet afternoon Shah decided he'd had enough of London. The result was The Caliph's House, a lively account of how the travel writer moved his pregnant wife and young daughter to Casablanca, buying a decrepit Arabian Nights complex once owned by a real caliph. Shah encountered slothful house-renovation crews and irascible neighbors, but also had to dodge gangsters, suicide bombers, plagues of rats and - worst of all - jinns, the spirits that many Moroccans believe are hazards of daily life. He learned to deal with the jinns the Moroccan way, sprinkling drops of his blood...
...opportunity to make amends for his failed policies [Nov. 27]. Instead of acknowledging the peaceful nature of his visit to a former enemy nation and declaring that, despite the present situation in Iraq, he looks forward to the day when a future American President can visit Baghdad and safely travel by motorcade through the capital, he sheepishly avoided the comparisons of Iraq with Vietnam. Americans know Iraq is a mess, and maybe the President knows Iraq is a mess. But before it can be cleaned up, we need a President who can engage the world and pony up to reality...
...When Flying was Fun While U.S. airlines are stripping amenities, some international carriers have begun offering come-ons like in-flight gambling and cell-phone use [Nov. 27]. But in its early days, commercial air travel was an exciting, glamorous affair, as described in our March 28, 1949, cover story on Pan American Airways' founder Juan Terry Trippe...