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Smoggy Bottom
Rick Santorum’s Virginia Church and Opus Dei
The Charnel Continent
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler And Stalin By Timothy Snyder (Basic Books, 524 pp., $29.95) READ MORE >>
Murder in the Bronx, Business as Usual: A Suggestion for Obama in 2014
It’s one of those hideous little episodes making minor headlines this week that will be forgotten by the media next week. 15-year-old Vada Vasquez of the Bronx is in a coma with a bullet in her brain, after being caught in the crossfire when a group of Bloods took aim at 19-year-old Tyrone Creighton (and succeeding; he’s in the hospital, too). READ MORE >>
Skin Deep
Making the Cut: How Cosmetic Surgery is Transforming Our Lives By Anthony Elliott (Reaktion Books, 155 pp., $19.95) Lying on a couch in the office of one of the hairdressing salons that she owns in London, Sharyn Hughes perused the advertising brochure she had been sent by Makeover Getaways: READ MORE >>
The Empire Breaks Up
“Great Russia has forged forever the indestructible union of free republics.” —from the Soviet national anthem READ MORE >>
