As all the world knows by now, a hard-drinking, womanizing, black-marketing German industrialist named Oskar Schindler saved some 1,100 Jewish slave laborers from the Holocaust.
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Readers of “The Gift of Rain,” Tan Twan Eng’s sweeping debut novel about the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War
II, may be reminded of the debate over free will and predestination in “Lawrence of Arabia” that neatly divides that film into halves: optimistic and somber.
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FLYING over the central United States, British historian Andro
Linklater was struck by the vast, orderly checkerboard of farmland
and the towns laid out on grids of north-south and east-west streets.
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BORIS AKUNIN, the pen name of Georgia-born Grigory Chkhartishvili,
first known as an essayist and translator of Japanese literature into
Russian, has achieved great popularity in Russia with mystery novels
set in the late 19th century.
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WHEN we last heard from Michael Crichton, he had grown a giant-size
petri dish full of controversy with his 2004 novel, “State of Fear,”
the premise of which was that global warming was a hoax used to
justify acts of eco-terrorism.
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AS a novelist, John Grisham had an advantage in turning his hand to
nonfiction for the first time in “The Innocent Man.”
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A coffee-table book on the Indian Wars of 1854 to 1890?
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