Book review: We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, by Peter Van Buren  By STEVE WEINBERG Published: Sep 30, 2011 5:53 PM Peter Van Buren is a longtime foreign service officer; he has traveled the world serving the citizenry of the United States overseas. [...]

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Sharp on what ails the U.S., the book falls flat on how to get our mojo back Co-authors Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum call for “shock therapy” to prevent a great nation’s unraveling Illustration by Chris Gash By David Kamp Editor’s Rating: That Used to Be Us:How America Fell Behind in the World It Inventedand [...]

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Christopher Hitchens’ writings on politics and his public face on a variety of TV programs and in other forums have earned him manifold tags, not always favorable ones (depending on whom is bestowing them) — he’s been called a provocateur, a contrarian, a ranter, a polemicist, a traitor (by former friends on the Left who [...]

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Among the strands that comprise Susan Orlean’s thorough, wide-ranging and ambitious Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend are the promised biography of America’s first dog film star; a history of the evolution of animals into house pets; a shocking revelation that America had a dog army during WWII (where was that fact in [...]

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Book blurb (Goodreads): After a month off, Kristin comes back to work happier then she’s been in a long time. Her new status in life has her solving crimes faster and better than she ever could before.  When Alex goes missing, Kristin finds she finally has to reveal the secrets of her life to her friends. [...]

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