Books

The surprising similarities between George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh

Prisoners have often written about their lives behind bars but Jens Soering rsquo s The Church of the Second Chance stands out because it involved considerable research How a reader might ask could a person serving a life sentence for murder with only limited access to a typewriter and none to

Charles Simic rsquo s poetry is and always has been gnomic His poems read like little messages containing clues mdash though often at first sight clues too cryptic to be put to use It both pleases and puzzles that at just the moment when a poem seems to approach a newly discovered center of grav

The damage done is deep and chronic.

As Timothy J. Colton argues in his new biography, Yeltsin: A Life, Yeltsin did more than any other leader to point Russia toward democracy.

'Netherland' is not another razzle-dazzle, postmodern novel for 23-year-old M.F.A.s.

Can a commitment to the common good heal a divided political culture?

Good books with substantial content can often be read at different levels each of the readings may offer a fresh story and some deeper insights Asylum Denied is such a work It is authored jointly by David Kenney a former refugee from his native Kenya and now a legal U S resident and Philip Sch

The Crusades are typically thought of as the wars between Christians and Muslims in the Middle East that occurred during the 12th and 13th centuries While this was their most famous manifestation it was not the only one They also involved conflicts against the Moors in Iberia heretics in souther