Baghdad book market explosion
A car bombing in the Baghdad book market, “where intellectuals once gathered,” killed twenty people today.
A car bombing in the Baghdad book market, “where intellectuals once gathered,” killed twenty people today.
In How to Write a Novel, Amitava Kumar reminisces about the many stages of his new book, Home Products.
A stealth addition to the reauthorized Patriot Act allows the Justice Department to boot U.S. Attorneys and appoint new ones without seeking confirmation from the Senate or the courts. The DOJ hasn’t wasted any time. Eight attorneys got the axe recently. They were replaced, as Dahlia Lithwick observes, “with folks more willing to dance to the White House pipes.” Michigan . . .
The Stranger‘s Brendan Kiley visits the swimming pool where Theodore Roethke drowned.
Ian Buruma admires aspects of Hirsi Ali’s Infidel, but finds her descriptions of the West “as naïve as [the] romantic novels she consumed as a young girl.” (See also.)