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Book Review: How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
Want to know when The Age of Enlightenment ended and what is responsible? Francis Wheen thinks he has it pinpointed in How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World. According to Wheen, 1979 “marks the moment when the world was jolted by a violent reaction to the complacency of the existing order.” This …
Read More »Book Review: The Social World of Early Modern Westminster
Visitors to London often ask: "Where's the centre?" They're surprised to find locals responding: "Umm, which centre do you mean?
Read More »Found poetry
'Some sets of footnotes, as long as they’re not the minimalist Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. style, make fine poetry ... '
Read More »Book Review: The Wise Woman
Philippa Gregory's The Queen's Fool is an entertaining, well-researched novel of Tudor times.
Read More »Book Review: Zorro: A Novel
We could call this summer Men In Black 3 or the Birth of Mask ...
Read More »Book Review: Midnight In The Garden Of Evil
"...New York is boring. It’s like Gone With The Wind on mescaline down here..."
Read More »Book Review: The Making of 9/11’s Perfect Soldiers
Some journalism doesn’t fit the inherent constraints of newspapers or magazines. Often, that is because the subject is too massive and requires longer periods of investigation than what these formats tend to demand in immediacy. Terry McDermott’s exploration of the 9/11 terrorists, Perfect Soldiers, is an example of this. McDermott, …
Read More »Book Review: North Korea
I went to North Korea in 1998 and it was, and no doubt still is, a most fascinating, if spooky, place.
Read More »Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
What if Jesus had a crass best friend?
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