As a young American infantry officer in London awaiting his D-Day orders, Gardner Botsford met an English couple – a…
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Cyber-Jihad
When I was five years old, the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, threatened to bury me.…
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Trafalgar Studios, London, 28 Sept – 10 Dec 2005 The day that Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for literature…
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Review of From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East by Bernard Lewis. I have witnessed what Bernard Lewis, and…
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The Bush administration’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are proving to be as good to the theatre as they have…
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Reviews of: A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe Cambridge, 333 pp, £15.99 The Gun…
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A new film that depicts Arabs as blood-thirsty terrorists is creating a storm in the States. Charles Glass, in New…
Continue reading →For Love of Justice: The Life of a Quixotic Soldier
Major Derek Cooper is one of the last of that endangered species, the English gentleman. Though his own memoirs, Dangerous…
Continue reading →Now and Then: A Memoir from Coney Island to Here
Now and Then is a detailed guide to subway travel and cheap food in 1930s Coney Island, New York. It…
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Mark Twain knew the value of bad publicity. In 1885, when the Public Library of Concord, Massachusetts, banned Huckleberry Finn,…
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