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BOOK REVIEW: 'Untold Story'
By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times
One thing you can count on with British novelist Monica Ali is that she will not give you the same kind of thing over and over again. Her second novel, “In the Kitchen,” a portrait of life in and around a large central London hotel, was startlingly different from her first, “Brick Lane,” a study of a Bangladeshi immigrant neighborhood in the citys east end. Published December 11, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Drop of the Hard Stuff’
By John Greenya - Special to The Washington Times
In the good old bad days, you could count on a private detective being a brawler, a drunk, and a sexist pig. Today, it’s rare to encounter a shamus who has even one of these “failings.” (And you’d be slammed for using that antiquated label to describe him.) Published December 11, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Gossip’
By Larry Thornberry - Special to The Washington Times
Surely I’m not the only reader amazed at how downright boring professors, assorted “experts” and too often even the reverend clergy can be when addressing some of the more basic forces in our lives. Published December 9, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Some of My Lives’
By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times
Quite early in this look back at a life spent among artists and musicians, Rosamond Bernier lets drop a telling anecdote, where Aaron Copland confides to her about a youthfulLeonard Bernstein: “We don’t have to worry about THAT one.” Published December 9, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Nightwoods’
By John Greenya - Special to The Washington Times
Novelist Charles Frazier clearly agrees with Robert Frost’s description of woods as “lovely, dark and deep,” especially the dark and deep part. Published December 9, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Eisenhower’
By David A. Keene - Special to The Washington Times
The Los Angeles Times’ Jim Newton wrote “Eisenhower: The White House Years” because he thinks Dwight David Eisenhower just doesn’t get the credit he deserves. Published December 7, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Soft Target’
By Ray Hartwell - Special to The Washington Times
Stephen Hunter is a prizewinning journalist who, until his recent retirement, was chief movie critic for The Washington Post. In addition, for about three decades, Mr. Hunter has moonlighted as a novelist, well-known for entertaining fiction recounting the exploits of Vietnam War sniper Bob Lee Swagger and Bob Lee’s father, Pacific war veteran and Arkansas sheriff Earl Swagger. Published December 6, 2011 Comments
Recent Articles
BOOK REVIEW: 'No Higher Honor'
By John R. Coyne Jr. - Special to The Washington Times
Condoleezza Rice served her country for eight intense years, four as President George W. Bush's national security advisor, four as his secretary of state - years in which our national life was altered profoundly and our place in the world challenged by movements and forces swirling out of remote regions of the world. Published December 2, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Midnight Rising'
By Philip Kopper - Special to The Washington Times
A decade after reading Tony Horwitz's "Confederates in the Attic," I have one lasting memory of hilarity at Rebel re-enactors bedding down on blankets all in a row on frozen ground (grown men on a Civil War sleepover) - along with wonder at the kinship between the Confederacy and folks who honor its memory. Published December 2, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Catherine the Great'
By Sandra McElwaine - Special to The Washington Times
The venerable Robert Massie has written another fascinating book about one of his favorite subjects: Czarist Russia. The new narrative by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Nicholas and Alexandra," "Peter The Great" and "The Romanovs" reveals, in exhaustive detail, the lavish and byzantine lives of the imperial family along with the machinations, intrigues, malicious gossip and rumors that flourished in the shadows of their court. Published December 2, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Bligh'
By John M. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times
Poets are remembered for their finest writings, painters for their most vivid canvases. The fate of their mediocre work is to be forgotten. Military men are judged differently. They are expected always to perform competently but are as likely to be remembered for their defeats as for their victories. So it was with Gen. George A. Custer, and so it was with a prominent British seaman, Capt. William Bligh, whose name is forever associated with the mutiny on one of his ships, the Bounty. Published November 30, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Habibi'
By Jeremy Lott - Special to The Washington Times
Craig Thompson's "Habibi" was one of two major graphic novel releases this fall inspired by the West's recent, disastrous interactions with the Islamic world. The other was "Holy Terror" by Frank Miller, a thinly veiled Batman story that pitted the caped crusader against al Qaeda. Published November 29, 2011 Comments
ROEMER: Still calling for big government
By Buddy Roemer - Special to The Washington Times
After reading this fascinating book by former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, I can quickly answer the riddle of what it means to be a Democrat: holding a passionate belief in the ability of government to solve any problem, particularly if the answers come from Washington, D.C. In other words, no government is too big. In fact, no government is big enough. Published November 28, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW:' The Missing Martyrs'
By Joshua Sinai - Special to The Washington Times
In "The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists," Charles Kurzman, a highly regarded professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, returns again and again to an ideological premise that fact and common sense do not support. Published November 27, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Forever Rumpole'
By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times
The title of this delightful collection of Sir John Mortimer's classic Rumpole stories itself testifies to the enduring qualities of these stories, told in the voice of the Old Bailey Hack barrister. That distinctive voice - crusty, orotund, pointed - is key to what makes these tales such a pleasure to read. Published November 25, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Jerusalem'
By Mark A. Kellner - Special to The Washington Times
For much of the past 2,000 years, as Jewish families have gathered around the table for the annual Passover Seder, a now-familiar saying has concluded the liturgy: "L'shana habaah b'yerushalayim," participants say in Hebrew: "Next year in Jerusalem!" Published November 25, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Yossarian Slept Here'
By Marion Elizabeth Rodgers - Special to The Washington Times
This year has been a season of memoirs written by the daughters of the famous: Alexandra Styron's "Reading My Father," about William Styron, and Katharine Weber's "The Memory of All That," about her grandmother Kay Swift and George Gershwin. Joining them is Erica Heller, novelist and creative consultant, piecing together the puzzle of her father, Joseph Heller, who used his experience of flying missions over France during World War II as the inspiration for his most famous (and lasting) 1961 novel. Published November 25, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Affair: A Reacher Novel'
By John Weisman - Special to The Washington Times
Writing series novels is tough. I did nine "Rogue Warrior" books, and that was enough. Making them fresh every time out of the gate; keeping your franchise character from getting stale; inventing the twists and turns that define the books; researching the tactics, techno-goodies and multiple locations that most action-adventure novels demand; and doing it all in the space of about 12 months per book -boy, that is tough work. Published November 23, 2011 Comments
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