The French Food Connection
/Julia Child is all the rage: a new movie (Julie & Julia) and a couple of related books (My Life in France and the gastronomically-inclined Gourmet’s Rhapsody), etc. Sharon Fulton samples the wares.
Read MoreIn a Thing So Small
/In Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer suggests that science has prematurely evicted a prime mover from cellular biology, and he would like it put back. Ignazio de Vega tests his case.
Read MoreI am Man, Hear Me Whimper
/The primitivism of small-town life gets a thorough examination in Robert Cohen’s Amateur Barbarians; Joshua Garstka strolls these suburbs and reports back
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: History Plays for Keeps
/In Dan Fesperman’s meticulously crafted World War II thriller, The Arms Maker of Berlin, he opens up old war chests and lets the genies of the past wreak havoc upon the present. Irma Heldman is on the case.
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