Does a superb job of presenting all its characters in equal detail. Muslim and Christian alike are treated as individuals, not as types.
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Book Review: The Mental Floss History of the World by Erik Sass and Steve Wiegand
An "irreverent" recounting of world history is stronger on history than irreverence.
Read More »Fear and Loathing On Election Day
What worries me is the process, not necessarily the outcome. Is it perhaps some lingering 2000 or 2004 election hangover?
Read More »Book Review: Farewell, Shanghai by Angel Wagenstein
There was one safe haven for Jews in 1938, but it was a long way away, and little was known about what you could do there to survive.
Read More »Book Review: The Adventures Of Amir Hamza by Ghalib Lakhnavi And Abdullah Bilgrami – Translated By Musharraf Ali Farooqi
The adventure and excitement of some of the best of sword and sorcery stories and an introduction to the mythical heroes of the Muslim world.
Read More »Book Review: John Milton – A Biography by Neil Forsyth
If you are left not particularly looking to extend your acquaintance with the poet, that isn't the biographer's fault.
Read More »Book Review: He Is… I Say – How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Neil Diamond by David Wild
This love letter to Neil Diamond is also in many ways a book about music criticism itself. Damn you, David Wild!
Read More »Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann Questions Obama’s Patriotism on Hardball
This is what our country has come to.
Read More »Book Review: Isaac’s Torah by Angel Wagenstein
Isaac's Torah shows how it is possible to find hope in the most hopeless of circumstances.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): To Barcelona! by Michael Niederman
In a new work, a playwright honors his grandfather and all the other Americans who illegally went to Spain to fight against Franco.
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