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| Historical children's books: review | | Telegraph - 14 Hours ago | | Toby Clements celebrates five historical novels for children The best writers of historical fiction dont let their chosen period crowd out the story, but use it as a colourful backdrop or foil for their | | | | Add Comment |
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| Picture Books: review | | Telegraph - 15 Hours ago | | Judith Woods gets lost in the latest batch of picture books, including the new Julia Donaldson Julia Donaldson, the author of The Gruffalo, is as big a celebrity as it gets in the world of picture books, | | | | Add Comment |
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| Swinging into change | | Guardian Unlimited - 20 Hours ago | | 'The 60s,' writes Jenny Diski in the introduction to her monograph, 'were an idea in the minds, perhaps even more powerful than the experience, of those who were actually living through them.' Diski's | | | | Add Comment |
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| All quiet on the God front | | Guardian Unlimited - 20 Hours ago | | This is an eloquent and interesting book, although you do not quite get what it says on the tin. Karen Armstrong takes the reader through a history of religious practice in many different cultures, arguing | | | | Add Comment |
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| A little light on the dark ages | | Guardian Unlimited - 20 Hours ago | | Anyone who did the Black Death at school - which must be just about everyone - will have hung on to certain key facts. First, it was spread by a rodent whose Latin name was the satisfyingly euphonious | | | | Add Comment |
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| Book review: Taking Jeff Rubin to task | | Peak Oil - 79 Minutes ago | | It's only nine pages in before author and former CIBC economist Jeff Rubin makes the startling admission that economics tells only half the story about resource scarcity and depletion. Fortunately, he | | | | Add Comment |
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| Book Review: Border Song, by Jim Lynch | | National Post - 13 Hours ago | | Border Songs By Mike Doherty Compared with the U.S.-Mexico border, the 49th parallel hasnâ??t inspired much of a literary mythology. So if the Department of Homeland Security is hoping for a few terrorist | | | | Add Comment |
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| Andys Sleeve | | Tampa Bay Newspapers - 4 Hours ago | | To much general British disappointment, Andy Murray hasnâ??t made it to this yearâ??s Wimbledon final. I was distracted during his defeat at the hands of Andy Roddick by the insignia on the sleeve of | | | | Add Comment |
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| Resoundingly Unhip | | London Review of Books - 12 Hours ago | | My parents were science fiction fans in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the 1980s, between the ages of about 10 and 13, I read quite a lot of their paperback collection: Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, | | | | Add Comment |
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| Wasted Land | | New York Times - 13 Hours ago | | Think globally, suffer locally. This could be the moral of Methland, Nick Redings unnerving investigative account of two gruesome years in the life of Oelwein, Iowa, a railroad and meatpacking town of | | | | Add Comment |
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| Unreal Estate | | New York Times - 13 Hours ago | | The one Gnostic truth of real estate, Frank Bascombe, Richard Fords gimlet-eyed Realtor-as-Jersey-philosopher, observes in Independence Day, is that people never find or buy the house they say they want. | | | | Add Comment |
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| Past-Prime Crisis | | New York Times - 13 Hours ago | | Its an indelicate, sometimes even an indecent-feeling situation in New York life. You go to look at an older all right, lets just say it an old In her new novel, Heroic Measures, Jill Ciment takes this | | | | Add Comment |
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| Goddess of Mischief | | New York Times - 13 Hours ago | | Alcohol. Cocaine. Promiscuity. NymphoÂmania. Wife swapping. Divorce. Profligate spending. ÂSixties swingers? Merely rocking in their cradles. The beautiful and damned of New Yorks Roaring Twenties? | | | | Add Comment |
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| God and Man at National Review | | New York Times - 13 Hours ago | | Hard on the heels of Christopher Buckleys recent memoir of the deaths of his parents (Losing Mum and Pup), Richard Brookhiser has published his own account of life with William F. Buckley Jr., the founder | | | | Add Comment |
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| Cultural Locations of Disability - Book Review | | Disabled World - 16 Hours ago | | Disability : Books and Publications Review: I learned something new and unanticipated from almost every page of this book. Snyder and Mitchell's Cultural Locations of Disability lays out in an extraordinary | | | | Add Comment |
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| The master's voice | | Guardian Unlimited - 20 Hours ago | | The following wedge of prose has two things wrong with it: one big thing and one little thing - one infelicity and one howler. Read it with attention. If you can spot both, then you have what is called | | | | Add Comment |
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| Food, Inc | | Guardian Unlimited - 21 Hours ago | | Still, I might be better off eating crisps than a lot of other industrial food products, as this printed complement to the documentary film of the same title demonstrates. It includes a 'making of' essay | | | | Add Comment |
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| Mr Toppit | | Guardian Unlimited - 21 Hours ago | | The woods around the Hayman family's Dorset home stretch for 300 acres, taking in caves, clearings and a bowl-like quarry. They are a fine landscape for the imagination, and the genial Arthur spins yarns | | | | Add Comment |
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| Liberty | | Guardian Unlimited - 21 Hours ago | | Another visit to Lake Wobegon, where Clint Bunsen, a 60-year-old car mechanic, is attempting to organise the Fourth of July parade while negotiating an extramarital affair with a spiritual healer 30 years | | | | Add Comment |
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