Issue of October 29, 2012
8 articles in this issue.
Two daughters of a bigamist compete for their father's love in this novel "Silver Sparrow," by Tayari Jones.
Five different stories, one constant in all of them -- a mystery that begs to be solved ... will the memories come clear enough for justice to be served?
Made curious about an astonishing lack of promotion, Bernie and Sand attend the first area screening of "Cloud Atlas."
Cooks lined up outside a Beijing restaurant for late afternoon instructions from the head chef.
The inscriptions on the walls are too obvious to mistake the meaning of the darkened areas around the altar in the disused temple. This is not a good place for Emma -- but then, where is?
Where can Andre's hat be, and how can he prepare food for the ravenous Clarissa without a proper chef's hat?
"...Russia's stolid core, retreating to its greatest strength, the great nyet that withstood Napoleon, was burned and yet lived, was frozen and yet lived, saying nyet to everything, enduring the unendurable with that one fierce word ... nyet, nyet, nyet ..."