December 13, 2006 Of 1000 at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, there are 6 fluent Arabic speakers, and 27 who aren’t fluent. (But thank God the military axed those 55 fluent queers.) Read more
December 13, 2006 “I’ve got a so-so body with a go-go mind,” said the librarian who amassed a spectacular African American history collection in her garage. (Via.) Read more
December 13, 2006 A.L. Kennedy recommends James Carroll’s American Requiem, subtitled “God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us,” at The Scotsman. (Via.) Read more
December 12, 2006 Nadine Gordimer delivered the first Naguib Mahfouz Memorial Lecture, “Witness: the inward testimony,” in Cairo last week. (Via.) Read more
December 12, 2006 Did Thomas Hardy’s first wife, Emma, die of syphilis contracted from the poet? (Via.) Read more
