Thames
Richard Burton Was a Great Writer
The Richard Burton DiariesEdited by Chris Williams (Yale University Press, 693 pp., $35) JUNE 14, 1969, and for a dawn moment he was calm, remembering Wordsworth and Dylan Thomas: “I love my wife. I love her dearly. Honest. Talk about the beauty, silent, bare.... Sitting on the Thames with the river imitating a blue-grey ghost. My God the very houses seem asleep. And all that mighty heart is lying still.” READ MORE >>
Jubilee Girl
ONE YOUNG Englishman was exhilarated by the queen’s Diamond Jubilee, as he had been ten years earlier when the Golden Jubilee had celebrated her first half-century on the throne. Then twelve years old, he had written to his mother: “P.S. Remember the Jubilee,” followed by a series of letters begging to be taken to see the great event. They were signed, “Your loving son Winny.” READ MORE >>
God Save the Queen: Why the British Monarchy May Not Outlive Elizabeth
What Was David Cameron Thinking?
Chinamen
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History By Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton, 354 pp., $26.95) READ MORE >>
Chinamen
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History By Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton, 354 pp., $26.95) READ MORE >>
The Orrscars 2009
The Winds of Windsorism
A Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales (Doubleday, 160 pp., $40) READ MORE >>
