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This caused a number of difficulties. Firstly, the questions from well-meaning but inquisitive people (such as my mother) were never-ending. Upon hearing my new title, they would ask, “So do you write books?” No, not at all. “Oh, so you edit them.” No, not really. “So...uh...” An awkward pause ensues as they try desperately to think of what else I could possibly be doing. A light bulb suddenly goes on: “So you sell...
...glad you?re bringing that up. I write about race in this book with a great deal of sadness. When I was in high school and college in the ?60s, the civil rights movement was the most important movement and the most moral movement of my time, and of the 20th century, for that matter. Martin Luther King, in my opinion, was one of the five most important, decent Americans since our founding as a nation. What happens after Martin Luther King gets assassinated? We get Jesse Jackson, we get Al Sharpton. If the implication is that...
...every day in the U.S. that a journalist is imprisoned for a story she did not write about a crime that may not have been committed. But nothing about the case involving Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who was sent to jail last week for contempt of court, or TIME's Matthew Cooper, who avoided the same fate at the last minute, has been simple...
...found her calling as a conservationist when she moved from Madras?"not a beautiful city"?to New Delhi in the 1970s to study architecture. Awed by the 2,000 Mughal, Hindu and British buildings in the capital, she considered becoming a tour guide until her professor persuaded her to write a thesis on Nizamuddin, the city's Muslim quarter. She soon realized she was the first to systematically chronicle the area and was effectively "rediscovering a city." After stumbling upon a whole palace complex in the Mehrauli district of South Delhi that was being demolished, Thakur had a eureka moment...
...indicted for rape--a charge that was apparently dropped. In this robust account of his life, Ackroyd, a noted British novelist, points out that the author of The Canterbury Tales was not foremost a poet: "He was a government official and diplomat who, in his spare time, happened to write poetry...