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In a book-clogged study on Manhattan's West Side, where he lives with his wife Marion, who translates his work from French into English, and their 12- year-old son Shlomo Elisha, Wiesel gazes down at the bare trees in Central Park and ponders. "Frequently I ask myself, how...
Only two characters understand the dreadful disorienting power made manifest by the echo, and their answer to it is withdrawal from the world. One is a Hindu sage, Professor Godbole, a lively cricket of a man, hopping to some music only the brilliant Alec Guinness can hear. As Fielding busies...
The odd arrangement of the book suggests that Doctorow is not altogether happy with the stories. The first, an agreeable family anecdote about a secret kept from an old lady in a nursing home, could be told as a one-paragraph joke. But the third is a small marvel, a...
Everyone agrees that the long, dreadful U.S. experience in Southeast Asia implies certain important truths about what the nation should and should not attempt overseas. But exactly what are those lessons? In military terms. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger declared in an address last week, the conclusions are simple: pick wars...
Scargill insisted that the purpose of his Paris trip was merely to consult with French unionists and denied that the mineworkers were seeking money from Gaddafi to support their 35-week strike against Britain's national ized coal industry. Nonetheless Scargill's Libyan connection, revealed seven months after...