France Votes Obama!

Americans at the voting center in Paris on Tuesday Feb. 12 were not the only enthusiasts for Obama. The French too have been captivated by the man who voted "no" as they did, to the war on Iraq. And though french fries still are being called freedom fries at the House of...

Death Needs A Mop

"In his top-of-the-heap book, Markus Zusak gives all you would expect in a novel about wartime Germany. But his trick is to make Death his narrator, writes Marianne Brace HOW do you write a fresh story about the Holocaust? Australian novelist Markus Zusak has cracked it with...

Where we live: not Poland or Turkey, but someplace like that

"THE winners of the National Book Awards were announced this month — did anyone notice?"Does anybody really care who wins literary awards? Certainly publishers do, and after all, most book awards are highly effective publicity machines that generate extra sales. Authors...