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DIED. JOHN KNOWLES, 75, author and onetime journalist whose career peaked early with his first and pre-eminent novel, A Separate Peace (1960), the story of a New England prep-school boy's search for self; near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. None of his eight other novels could match the critical...
When U.S. prosecutors indicted Sotheby's and Christie's, the country's pre-eminent auction houses, in a price-fixing scheme earlier this year, observers were giddy at the prospect of watching the high-toned lead players testify against each other in court. Last week Diana Brooks, Sotheby's elegant...
The town of Yong Jing in Northern China is "so small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his...
All of this makes him an obvious candidate for teaching ethical resistance. But like so many eminent sages who dabble in teaching, Hitchens is often too distracted by his own meditations to notice his students very much. In the end, the practical impact of his insights must be raked out...
Fine. But Yardstick has the temerity to venture further: Columbus did not commit any acts that were immoral by the standards of his day. Of course, in 1492 there were some who thought it morally wrong to enslave the native people of Spain’s conquered lands, just as...