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...obsessed with books, partly because of the Cemetery and partly because one of the other main settings is a bookstore. Have you always surrounded yourself with books? My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out. I didn't have access to a wonderful bookstore like the one in the book, but in many ways what I've always been doing is making up stories and characters. Even before I learned to read and write...
Over the past month alone, 679,000 men and women have used the service to contact a cheating partner. According to their profiles, 92% of males on the site are married or otherwise attached, as are 60% of female members. No word on how many politicians have signed on. (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...soft approach" to interrogation explored in your article "How to Make Terrorists Talk" [June 8]. Without empathy there can never be peace, and reporting has a role to play. "Hardened terrorist," "insurgent," "captive," "subject": it's a revealing exercise to read the piece replacing these terms with the word person. A person is easier to talk to - and you're much less inclined to waterboard him. Robert Maslen, BRADFORD, ENGLAND...
...somewhat stunned to see the words "Latina Justice" screaming at me from the cover of your magazine. If you don't feel that this is racist, substitute the word white for Latina. Would you have used those words if Obama's choice was white? Robert Bogisich, Glen Iris, Australia...
...peace signs. Drivers on jam-packed streets honked their horns in protest. Apartment dwellers climbed to their rooftops to shout "Allahu akbar" and "Death to dictator!"--a gesture last seen three decades ago. When the regime blocked the Internet and cell-phone networks, demonstrators organized their rallies by word of mouth. It was democracy in action. "The amazing thing is that this movement has no leader," said Sima, 40, a book editor in Tehran. "Sure, people support [opposition presidential candidate Mir-Hossein] Mousavi, but the real reason they're here is to protest against the fraud...