Encounter Books has rendered a great public service by translating and publishing in English Caroline Fourest’s important book on Tariq Ramadan, Brother Tariq.
My review of George Eliot’s Scenes of Clerical Life triggered a lively discussion over in the Corner. So I am excited to see what might ensue from another posting on Eliot, this time on her first full length novel, Adam Bede.
In The Last Mughal, William Dalrymple evokes a lost world: old Delhi before the Indian Mutiny and the ensuing destruction of much of the venerable capital of the Mughals.
I picked up Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day entirely by accident. I was in New York and needed a copy of my wife’s Presidential Instant Message book to give to a television producer.
I read Bruce Bartlett’s Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past in typescript some months ago. I was tempted to blog about it then, but out of authorial comity decided to wait until the published version was available for everyone to read.
Here are two important books that stake out important positions in the looming debate over the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement.
Here are two important books that stake out important positions in the looming debate over the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement.