Book Review: 1491, by Charles C. Mann Here’s what I and pretty much every American child absorbed in school about the New World before the arrival of Europeans. The Americas consisted almost entirely of pristine wilderness populated by a sprinkling of Indians. The Indians left the wilderness undisturbed, and given their limited numbers were able to …
Book Review: Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy, by Peter Carlson Well, I’ve used up the material from all of our 2015 travels, and the garden is still frozen. This seems like a good time for a book review. And no, it’s not about gardening. This is a very good book with a very …
The recent atrocities in Paris, Beirut, and Baghdad brought to mind two novels I read a couple of years ago: Shalimar the Clown, by Salman Rushdie; and Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernières. Both books are about fictional small towns that contain people of different ethnicities and religions. These stories are separated by decades …
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