I read Styron’s novel, Sophie’s Choice, when it first came out. I was mesmerized all the way through (and it’s a pretty long book!). I didn’t go to see the movie in the theatre because, knowing the story, at the time, I didn’t want to be depressed. My babies were little and I didn’t think I […]
I have to admit that I felt fiendishly gleeful when the reports came out that Hugo Chavez had exposed the CIA’s little political destabilization game in Venezuela by getting his hands on the“Operation Pincer” memorandum and publishing it! What a hoot! It was just TOO priceless that the Man Behind the Curtain was exposed as less […]
Today I want to review a book I have recently finished reading: The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel. Let me introduce my subject with a quote from another recent book by Nachman Ben-Yehuda, the Israeli sociologist, who writes: “How do we perceive our culture? How do we understand ourselves as beings in […]
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