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Christopher was moved, in his choice of objects of animosity, by an unstable mixture of calculation and conviction.

While the US funds democratic reform projects in the post-Mubarak age, Egyptians are mistrustful of American meddling in their domestic affairs.

Whether you're a tiger mother, a soccer mom, a helicopter parent or something else, if you're not in poverty, then your kids will probably end up okay.

Can a second language provide us with a new self?

The military's media megaphone and the U.S. global military presence.

The French Revolution as seen from Versailles.

Set in the glossiest of sanctuaries, Rex is a complicated and dazzling indictment of contemporary fiction.

Laura Miller's study of C.S. Lewis falls short of providing a coherent theory of Narnia's magic.

Though Bergelson wrote in Germany during the 1920s, his stories in Shadows of Berlin are more focused on the past apocalypse than the impending one.

For years it was one of those intriguing asterisk marks in many a great
writer's career--a book that might have been but wasn't.