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About Time I Read It: A Woman in Amber by Agate Nesaule
I think just about all of us possess books, perhaps even shelves of them that sit unread for years. Out of those books, there’s always a few at the end of the year that cause us to look at and m… more →
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Soviet Spotlight: Moscow, December 25, 1991 by Conor O'Clery
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wrote 5 days ago: “History,” a wise man once told me, “is bad people doing good things and good peop … more →
About Time I Read It: A Woman in Amber by Agate Nesaule
wrote 1 week ago: I think just about all of us possess books, perhaps even shelves of them that sit unread for years. … more →
Everything you wanted to know about the Mossad but were afraid to ask
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wrote 1 week ago: In what is probably a surprise to none of you, I was once a precocious teenager who loved reading bo … more →
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Last month in my review of Nathan Wolfe’s The Viral Storm, I mentioned that I had discovered t … more →
Soviet Spotlight: Mutiny by Gindin and Hagberg
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wrote 2 months ago: With cautious optimism, I’m hoping to make this post the first in series of posts featuring bo … more →
CSI: Saudi Arabia
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wrote 2 months ago: Some of you might remember from my last post that one of the many books I grabbed during one of my r … more →
Back to Bosnia with Peter Maass
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wrote 3 months ago: Feeling inspired by Rose City Reader’s European Reading Challenge, Vilmos Kondor’s Budapest No … more →
Minotaur by Benjamin Tammuz
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wrote 3 months ago: I’m sure you can guess by looking at my blog that I don’t read a lot of fiction. However … more →
The West is the best according to Ibn Warraq
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wrote 4 months ago: The West is the best – The Doors I strongly suspect it was one of the New Atheists who introdu … more →
Old Books Reading Challenge: Sacred Rage by Robin Wright
wrote 4 months ago: Since I’m hosting the 2013 Middle East Reading Challenge, it would probably be a good idea for … more →
Madeleine Albright's Prague Winter
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wrote 4 months ago: You know a book is good if it generates a substantial number of positive reviews and glowing blog co … more →
Adventures in Economics: Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
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wrote 5 months ago: One of the many giveaways I received at this year’s BEA was a complimentary copy of the New Yo … more →
Old Books Reading Challenge: Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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wrote 5 months ago: I’ve said it once and I will say it again–I’ve had fantastic luck when it comes to … more →
2013 Middle East Reading Challenge
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wrote 6 months ago: Over the last several years Helen, one of my favorite book bloggers, has hosted the Middle East Rea … more →
Fear and loathing in Zimbabwe
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wrote 6 months ago: I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the NPR program Fresh Air. Thanks to them, over the years I’ … more →
Consulting the crystal ball: Pakistan on the Brink by Ahmed Rashid
wrote 6 months ago: Years ago at a used book sale I picked up a paperback copy of Ahmed Rashid’s Jihad: The Rise o … more →
Askold Krushelnycky takes us inside Ukraine's Orange Revolution
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wrote 6 months ago: You might remember from one of my earlier posts that I’m trying to read and review as many boo … more →
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha by Sarah Erdman
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wrote 6 months ago: One Saturday afternoon during one of my weekend library visits I happened to stumble across a copy o … more →
Sarajevo: A War Journal by Zlatko Dizdarević
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wrote 6 months ago: As 2012 draws to a close, I’m furiously trying to read and review as many books as possible wh … more →
